Elecia White has released her new book on O’Reilly media, “Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software.” Her initial motivation was to guide another good engineer into arcane and relatively undocumented world of firmware and embedded systems. Disclosure: She’s a friend and I have provided comments on some chapters…and an interview question. If you […]
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How not to design for twitter
[vsw id=”ne4FsCTVtyo” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Yes, it’s a twitter appliance for your dog. Yes, you must replace the battery. Why wasn’t it designed it use a USB recharging method? Are they unaware that twitter users tend to be pretty savvy? And why so big? Given that it is using a local wireless channel, it […]
Hello world!
Moving my journal from Livejournal.com which I have used since 2001. So I will be pulling my few public entries to here soon.
Places for Frankensense.com to check out
http://kiip.me/ http://www.kongregate.com/ http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/
[W2Labs] Week 2- Holy Sh!t. Where the Hell Are We!
It was a day my team was dreading: Thursday presentations. Every week over the 5 weeks, each Women 2.0 Labs team presents the development of their idea and gets a chance to be properly torn down by the guest lecturer. The feedback is a once in a lifetime chance but it can be a brutal […]
Prototype lecture today
I found out I couldn’t park at the pier until after I was at 4th and King. Therefore, I was late to breakfast. Mike and I met for breakfast and to talk development. We have a set of features we want to focus on for the next five weeks on a common mobile dev platform. […]
Week 1 starts now
We’ve made teams and now we are listening to Eric Ries of IMVU. He’s quite amusing. However, pitch time draws near. Go team “Walk This Way”
Your adventure starts…. Tuesday
I was recently accepted into Women 2.0 Labs for this fall. It is the second cohort to endeavor on creating a startup in 5 weeks. If you wanna see what I’ve done in the past, checkout this video of my project: I am currently prepping for next week by: * finishing out my last day […]