Most people know I am not a big fan of Apple. I should clarify this as I am not a fan of Apple’s software (malware, what malware?). Their hardware, on the other hand, is well made and very nice. In my humble opinion, the best laptop on the market in a MacBook...
For the past 10 years I have had a cell phone and for 5 of those years I had a smartphone. I recently switched jobs and my previous company paid for my smartphone. As a result, I lost my smartphone and decided to spend some time without one. In many ways, the company...
There have been some big changes at Google lately. Larry Page is the CEO of Google and he is changing things around. Andy Rubin is defending their decision to not publish the code to Honeycomb (Android 3.0). Larry Page is changing the way decisions are made at Google....
Update: Review of Hadoop the Definitive Guide 3nd Edition I spent some time reading 2 Hadoop books: Hadoop the Definitive Guide 2nd Edition by Tom White and Hadoop In Action by Chuck Lam.  Both books were well written but seemed to be aimed at a different audience....
Chuck McManis wrote a post about the very early days of Java. These are ones I haven’t heard and very interesting. Once something is successful or popular, all kinds of people come out of the woodwork to accept credit for...
