When Dion and I joined Palm several years ago during the webOS era, I was very disappointed to learn that we had embraced a second-class public API strategy. While both Palm and third-party apps shared WebKit and a UI library, the Palm-specific hardware stuff was segregated into two APIs: one for trusted Palm developers and […]
Tasting The Future Over in Walmart Labs
Over at the Walmart Labs blog, we just announced that we acquired Tasty Labs. I’m very excited to be working closely with Nick, Paul, and Joshua. Great things ahead!
Lessons from the Facebook Mobile Website Team
We talk a lot at Walmart Labs about the large-scale stage we get to play on as the world’s largest retailer. But it’s good to humbled and there’s nothing like Facebook scale to do that to anyone who thinks they have a big on-line userbase. Early this month, it was my pleasure to attend a […]
Upcoming Future of Mobile Events
It goes without saying that mobile’s been a fascinating space to play in over the past few years. It’s also an understatement to say that my views have shifted as the ecosystem has developed. I started the journey fiercely advocating to the industry and to developers that web technologies should be the lingua franca of […]
The Pixate Project: Bringing CSS to Native Apps
On Friday, we announced that @WalmartLabs sponsored the Pixate project on KickStarter at the $10,000 level. Today I thought it would be fun to spend a few minutes writing about why I’m personally so excited about this project. What is Pixate? Disclaimer: I’m not a member of the Pixate team, but I have spoken with them […]
Google’s Enigmatic Nexus Q
When it was announced at this year’s Google I/O, the Nexus Q team took pride in the fact that people upon first observation generally had no idea what to make of the device. After playing with it myself for a couple of days, I’m not sure what to make of it either. It all started […]
Kaspersky Security Nonsense
ZDNet recently quoted security expert Eugene Kaspersky commenting on a recent rare piece of OS X malware in the wild: “I think [Apple] are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security,” Kaspersky told CBR. “For many years I’ve been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac […]
Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
I admire Steve Jobs. I’ve been aware of him for most of my life, having grown up near “The Valley” and played with computers from my youngest years. However, I wasn’t particularly interested in Jobs until about when most of society became interested in him. In recent years, I harbored a secret desire to work […]
Thoughts on Palm and Jamie Zawinski
There’s no better way to start our careers at Palm than by getting reamed by open-source pioneer and legend Jamie Zawinski, one of the driving forces behind the release of the Mozilla source code and someone we’ve talked about in recent months in another context. While a blog post isn’t the right avenue to talk […]
Going to Palm with Dion
Do you remember how much the Web used to suck? Not so long ago, we Web developers would have to constantly educate product managers and other business stakeholders about the limitations of HTML; we would often contrast it with so-called “rich client” technologies. Over the past few years, we’ve all watched with wonder as these […]
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