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Photos from DreamForce 2012 #df12

September 23rd, 2012 by alephnaught

Photos from DreamForce 2012 #df12

I got to attend DreamForce 2012; in case you don’t know, that’s the yearly meetup for all things Salesforce.com. I had a great time and achieved two of my three objectives (the third will have to come later – there were no good sessions covering what I was looking for). The conference was huge, spanning […]

Travel tool experiments and experiences

June 12th, 2012 by alephnaught

Travel tool experiments and experiences

I just got back from almost two weeks in northern Italy, and I used a different set of tools for this trip than our other trips. I left my laptop at home – I used my new iPad And iPhone for everything. And it worked well – they took up less space, were a lot […]

January 20th, 2012 by alephnaught

You Are Not A Gadget (review)

Title:You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) Author:Jaron Lanier Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (February 8, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307389979 ISBN-13: 978-0307389978 This is a fantastic book.  If you spend time thinking about the impact of technology on daily life you’ll want to read this. Jaron Lanier is an early hacker, […]

September 12th, 2010 by alephnaught

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Title: Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps Author: Josh Clark Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 18, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449381650 ISBN-13: 978-1449381653 If you want to create dynamite iPhone apps, this is the book for you. It won’t teach you to program – there are books on using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript or Objective-C […]

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