17 Jan 2017 Hacking Alexa to send Arbitrary Texts I finally jumped on the Alexa bandwagon this week, and picked up an Amazon Dot. I got the Dot, because it's a lot cheaper than the Echo, and I already...
09 Jan 2017 WebRTC Phone User Experience Last year, &Yet wrote a great series of blog posts with AT&T about WebRTC UX. We love to see this kind of focus in the WebRTC community,...
17 Dec 2015 Surviving Mandatory HTTPS in Chrome Chrome 47 brought a new change, and one that's caused a lot of confusion and irritation for some WebRTC developers. Despite the warnings and PSAs from the WebRTC team at...
26 Feb 2015 Tesla Still Can't Harvest Lightning Today, in a shocking moment at a Tesla press conference Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer, admits "No, we don't know how to harvest lightning yet." In the...
17 Nov 2014 How to Identify a Scam On Social Media Scams and Phishing are pretty common in email, and email providers like Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook are getting better and better at letting you know when an email might not...
31 Dec 2013 Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Review I'm typing this post on my new Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard. This is the latest in a line of highly reviewed ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft. Since I spend a lot...
16 Nov 2013 iPad Mini with Retina Display Review For a while at work I was using an iPad Mini (first generation) for development, and I was able to take it home for general use, too. I finally got...
11 Nov 2013 Self Improvement 2.0 and the Role of Software It used to be that the term "Self Improvement" meant reading a book about eating better, exercising more, or controlling anger (maybe that's self help?) In any case, it was...
11 Nov 2013 The Best Shortcut You can Create on Your iPhone The best shortcuts are easy to remember, easy to use, and very beneficial. The ratio of effort to benefit approaches zero. The best example? ctrl + c to copy. It's intuitive,...
03 Nov 2013 Putting the "Smart" Back in "Smart Phone" According to Go-Gulf (see the info graphic below), there are 1.08 billion smart phones in the world. This means there's a smart phone for about every 7 people on...
31 Oct 2013 An Attempt to Explain the Joy of ASP.NET MVC Development This post is a follow-up to An Attempt to Explain the Pain of SharePoint Development to show that I'm not all pessimistic, and that there are parts of my job...
24 Oct 2013 Renaming a SharePoint Server Preface: I've only done this in a development environment, but I've done it twice and it worked pretty well. Rename the Server I did this the default Windows method, through...
