Exploration of Thought

Note: Also cross posted on the Guayaki Blog.  I never liked coffee until about my mid twenties. I found some sugary sweet drink that was some thing called a “latte”. I ended up liking it and ordered one whenever I met my friends at a coffee shop. Over time I noticed that these things also…

I’ve been two weeks since I’ve started working at $22 my stand up desk (inspiration from here) and I thought I’d post an update. Overall, its been a good experience but I’ve found a few things interesting … I’m much more productive when I’m ready to work when I’m at the standing desk. For some…

Here's a quick tip on how to start your native Android emulator with maps, via the command line. This emulator is the Android Native Emulator that utilizes the X86 architecture but also has Google Maps inside of the emulator as well. It works like a charm and its SUPER fast compared to any other Android…

Node v0.8.0 was released this week. Being a good software developer (nah, lets be honest … maybe just a little bit insane one) I decided to update my sample application I'm using for an upcoming article and conference sessions on building API's with Node.js and the Express web framework. My current application was using Node…

Note: This post may seem a bit of a rant. But it's not. Its just something that people need to understand when dealing with product ideas, technical co-founders and the realization that finding a good co-founder (or any co-founder) is a very hard thing to do. This post attempts to inform you of why you…

They key to any successful start up or project is your teams overall velocity. I'm not talking about sprint points or story planning or any of that agile project management stuff. I'm talking about moving forward with goals and deadlines and keeping the ship moving across the water. Developing the product, customer retention, customer acquisition,…

A new conference is in the local southwest USA - the Phoenix Mobile Festival. Check out the site here: http://phxmobifestival.com/ I'll be speaking this Saturday at the conference on the topic of working with Android Fragments. If you're in the area feel free to swing by and say hi. :)

I've been using Roboletric for about a year now on a client project and we recently ran into an issue when we started testing a new screen. We use Roboguice for dependency injection and when the view would get created under test the views that would get injected at normal runtime would not get injected…

I'm very concerned with maintaining a healthy lifestyle and one of the most important things you can do to stay in good healthy standing order is to drink a lot of water (especially if you live in Phoenix, like I do - where temps are regularly above 90 or 100) . In my quest to consume more water I've found…

Today I got a new Apple Airport Extreme router / base station. I have a Brother 2170w wireless printer (basically set it up, and you can print wirelessly all over your office or house or wherever). Its freaking great. I really think every office should have one of these lying around. Its simply awesome. Previously…

My background is in software development, not marketing, not sales, not real estate ... its software development. Over the years I've been a full time employee, consultant and business owner and entrepreneur.  While the businesses I've started are not making gobs of cash like Yelp or Facebook, they definitely make my life a lot easier…

This is a quick story about how I started my first company (a record label) after college, lived my dream, drained my life savings (and more) and eventually moved this into my memory bank as one of the funnest times I've ever had. The Story ... Back in the early 2000's I started a record…