Tweet Apple needs to become a public cloud provider. This will be an ambitious undertaking because frankly, they’re very far behind Amazon. But if they did so, it would be hugely successful. Because these days, every app you see ends up being backed by a server somewhere and that server is in a cloud...
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To Office for IPad or not to Office for iPad
Tweet So there were rumors this week that Microsoft was going to ship a version of Office for iPad. I have no opinion one way or another whether they will or not. But I admit to being intensely curious about it because Microsoft has...
Why iBook Author is Ho-Hum
TweetSo professionally, this was an interesting week for me. Wednesday, Chegg shipped their new eReader which is the project I’ve been working on since August. It’s HTML5, and its a faithful representation of the books (more on why that’s important in a bit). Thursday,...
Writing a Project Charter saved my butt
TweetSo Chegg launched our new eReader today so I thought I would take a moment to talk about writing a Project Charter per Johanna Rothman’s excellent book on project...
Job Hunting Sucks
TweetA friend of mine who is job hunting (he’s looking for a job in Software QA if you know of any positions) emailed me this morning for help with...
Always Learning: The Good Will Hunting Method
TweetThere’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon tells this stuck-up guy in a bar: ” You blew $150,000 on an education you could have...