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A Different Take on Android Fragmentation
Albert Wenger – Sep 6, 2012
There is a rumor that Amazon today will announce an Android based smartphone tomorrow. And despite repeated denials there is also a persistent rumor of a Facebook phone that might be Android based. In China there are already several custom [...] Read more
Sailing and Team Work
Albert Wenger – Sep 5, 2012
Last Friday to Saturday I had the good fortune of being invited to crew on my friend Mark Hansen’s boat Sweet Lorraine (a beautiful J-145) in the 2012 Vineyard race. The course starts near the Stamford Harbor, goes up to [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (Overview)
Albert Wenger – Sep 4, 2012
Having taken some time off, I am excited to start Tech Tuesdays back up. We will continue looking at programming and the next topic are more complex data types which are also referred to as data structures. If you have [...] Read more
I Know What I Did This Summer
Albert Wenger – Sep 3, 2012
I am back from a 2 week break from pretty much all things Internet. With relatively few exceptions I stayed away from email, checking in, blogging, tweeting, reading Techmeme and all the other things I usually do during the course [...] Read more
End of Summer Blogging and Info Drip Break
Albert Wenger – Aug 16, 2012
I will be taking most of the rest of August off from writing daily blog posts. I am largely doing this because I will also be unplugging from the constant information drip. This is the information equivalent of a purge [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 3 – Argument Passing)
Albert Wenger – Aug 14, 2012
In the last two Tech Tuesdays we have learned about how functions let us define new words in a programming language and how arguments and other local variables are restricted to the scope of the function. Today we will take [...] Read more
App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2012
Dalton Caldwell announced yesterday on his blog and on Twitter that app.net has reached its initial funding goal. I look forward to seeing what happens next and am watching the api spec on Github. Here is what I believe would [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 2 – Scope)
Albert Wenger – Aug 7, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday we learned about functions as a way to define our own words in a programming language. We saw that functions take arguments and return results back to where the function was used in the program. We refer [...] Read more
ECommerce Hack Day
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2012
This past weekend was the first annual Ecommerce Hack Day in New York organized by Dwolla and Etsy with support from many other companies. I was delighted to be a judge as there were a lot of talented folks working [...] Read more