Whoever said working at an exciting startup would leave little time for anything else wasn’t too off. Between a book, a one-year-old and being part of a very exciting company in Ribbit, I’ve spared virtually no time for anything else. Sure, I’ve enjoyed (mostly work related and at times exhausting) travel over the past year….
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Commercial Success
Good friend Rob Abbott is appearing in his first commercial, a San Francisco, activity-themed campaign on the new Nokia N810 WIMAX phone. Watch the commercial on Youtube. Congrats, Rob, on your commercial success. It is so cool to see you in this well-done ad for Nokia. Although you’re a known Apple and iPhone nut, I…
Just posted my MAX speaker session
Last year I had the honor of speaking at MAX in Chicago for the first time. Having spoken at and attended many conferences, appearing at MAX was easily one of the highlights of my career. This year, especially with MAX 2008 being in my new ‘backyard’ of San Francisco, I hope to lead another exciting…
Really enjoying ‘John Adams’ mini-series on HBO
I was born in Boston and grew up 20 minutes north of the historic city in Peabody. My school and summer camp field trips featured a revolutionary cycle of visiting the Boston Tea Party Museum, The Freedom Trail, Bunker Hill, Lexington & Concord, The U.S.S Constitution, Plymouth Rock, The Old Granary Burial Ground, Faneuil Hall,…
Public Service Announcement: Don’t Text and Drive
It’s very tempting… While driving, that ‘new message’ chime rings and you know you’ve got a text message waiting for you on your phone. Even reaching over for the phone, if it’s in your cup holder on the passenger seat, will result in that split second that your eyes are not on the road. There are enough…
Ribbit announces 650 Flex developers, funding and future plans
What a media day for Ribbit today. We are top news in just about every major technology publication and blog. Almost every story mentions Flex and AIR as key technologies for Ribbit’s developer platform, reported as having over 650 Flex developers from over 65 countries. Here is a sampling of stories and below that, a…
Ribbit Platform Release Party – Final preparations
One of the easiest ways for an API Flex coder to quantify their work over a length of time is compare asdocs every month or so. I’m preparing for Ribibt’s Platform Release Party, assembling my presentations and one particular slide called “what’s new in beta 2”. Comparing the Beta 1.1 docs for the Ribbit Flex…
My first two years in Silicon Valley, Part 1: Ymaps and Flex 1.x
And now, part 1 of a 4 part blog series on my first 2 years out west… Yahoo Maps and being stuck at Flex 1.x Yahoo gets almost all the credit for my relocation. They won me over and got me to move 3,000 miles form home. Not many developers get a chance to work on and enhance an application that…