Some days are hard. On my tax forms, I check the box that indicates that my job is “Sales.” That’s not exactly true but it’s easy. My father thinks I write contracts and negotiate business deals. The rest of my family sees me as a sort of extra-long titled...
Are you thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT)? Maybe you should be — a whole new class of devices with previously unthought of capabilities is beginning to appear on the market. Corporate juggernauts and lean startups can both play the game, with home and...
At Art & Logic, I wear many hats … a likely consequence of having numerous interests: I am passionate about software and the development process; I am passionate about IT operations; I am passionate about information security, cryptography, privacy, and how those...
Sunday afternoon I saved the day. You may not have read about it in the Seattle Times; it was kind of a subtle thing, but I think it made the world a little brighter. I was in town helping to run a weekend workshop and at the end of the event, the teacher wanted to...
Alas, our panel proposal didn’t get picked this year but, we’ll still be there checking out the ones that did. We had a great time with the one we presented in 2014. The audio is a bit long but, check it out if you’re curious as to how software...
On January 28th, Facebook announced that it was shutting down Parse, the popular Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), in January 2017, after having purchased it for a reported $85M in 2013. Thousands of mobile apps and services rely on Parse, and if yours is one of...
