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Hey App Maker – Your Settings Menu Is All Full of Crazy

It’s the Ubiquitous Gear Icon Did you download an app and tap curiously on the little gear-looking icon and see a page all full of crazy? I sure have. Lots of times. Too many

Save Hundreds of $$$ Registering for O’Reily OSCON 2013

Bottom Line Register using my speaker coupon code TABOR and receive a 20% discount. Speaking At OSCON I’m proud to say I have the privilege of speaking at OSCON 2013. That’s totally awesome. It looks to be

Three Types of Social Sharers Your App Should Enable

Social Media Support Determining the correct amount and quality of social sharing for the application you’re building isn’t easy. What follows are my notes on three types of social sharers that might help you

The Standing Desk Project

Standing desks are something I first heard about from a teammate about eighteen months ago. He mentioned it as a health consideration and I dismissed it as a hipster trendy meme that I couldn’t care less

Where are the Mobile App “Nails Places” and “Dry Cleaners?”

Are there mobile-app equivalents of “nails places?” I’ll gladly accept the digital equivalent of “dry cleaners” and I suppose in a pinch “pizza franchises” as well. If where you live is anything like my

They Are Not Resources – We Are People

Yesterday a colleague and I were interviewing a management candidate and one of my questions spawned an answer where she mentioned “utilizing resources to 100%.” Wow, that sounds impressive. Wait! What? I had to