Author Archives: Scott

What’s really wrong with MySpace

February 13, 2010 – 12:44 pm

For the last year or so, the majority of my professional life has revolved around writing applications for social networks, Facebook in particular. In fact, it seems that most application developers forget that other networks actually exist. Allot of this has to do with publishers getting blinded by the ‘FarmVille’ effect of commanding a userbase [...]

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Play OSX Package

October 25, 2009 – 12:26 pm

With work keeping me rather busy lately, I haven’t had the chance to write up a (readable) new post. But over the last little I’ve been looking for a lightweight web development framework for Java that breaks out of the Servlet mold when I discovered Play!. Play is lightweight, set up for rapid development, and [...]

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How (not) To Attract The Best

September 13, 2009 – 2:44 pm

I read job boards. Like all the time. It’s a barometer for the tech industry. You can tell what’s hot, which way the technology is going, and where I might end up should I need a new gig.
Most job ads tend to take the same format, who they are, what they’re looking for, what you’ll [...]

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Keep It Simple

September 11, 2009 – 9:16 pm

If anything the last few years of ‘Web 2.0′ have taught us is that users appreciate simple sites even more than designers. This lesson even held true in the pre-web 2.0 era, tho it required somewhat of a cultural development shift to get there.
Google was the first really ’successful’ company to adopt the simple site [...]

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Mighty Quick Piadinas

September 7, 2009 – 11:50 am

You can think of Piadinas as the Italian answer to Tortillas. They’re thin, and when you fish them straight out of the pan, they have this fresh taste that goes great with anything out of your garden. They’re also basic as basic can get. No lard, no shortening, no baking soda. They can be made [...]

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I <3 Scala

September 6, 2009 – 9:56 am

I knew that people were starting to do wicked awesome things with Scala, but apparently David Pollak is actually making a living at it now. Color me jealous.
A few months ago I started looking around at the JVM alternative languages, Clojure, Groovy, the J’s (jython, jruby, ect.) and eventually Scala. I have somewhat of a [...]

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Know What’s Possible

September 5, 2009 – 2:22 pm

Picked up an article yesterday from Businessweek about companies that headhunters avoid when starting to look for new executive talent. You can read the whole article here, but what got my attention was the story at the beginning about former Coca-cola executive Jack Stahl.
Stahl left Coke in 2002 to become the president of cosmetics giant [...]

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