Mildly adapted from my first Ignite talk You might remember Nick Burns “The Computer Guy” from Saturday night live. He’s obnoxious, he’s hard to work with, and he treats you like an idiot. MOVE! He’s a funny stereotype, but he’s…
The Clowns Judging Startup Competitions
I often find myself on panels judging startup competitions for things like hackathons, Startup Weekends, Startup Bus, Startup etc. etc. etc. I love these things. The energy, passion, excitement, and cool stuff I see is inspiring. I end up back at…
Sponsorship: How To Get My Money
Getting a sponsorship isn’t THAT difficult. Over the last three years, I’ve sponsored a large number of local, national, and international events. My company mainly sponsors causes that are close to my heart as well as my business. This means…
iOS Push Notifications in Airplane Mode
I work a lot with the cruise ship industry, and one of the more interesting challenges we run into is that often there are user-facing systems that have to work without an Internet connection. I’ve designed applications that are supposed…
5 tips for launching your first app
Almost everyone wants to have an app these days. But how do you go about finding the right designers, programmers, and marketers to take your app from an idea to millions of downloads in the app store? Validate your idea….
Setting up a Star SP500 Wireless Printer
The wonderfully undocumented SP500 printer with wireless Ethernet connection has been the bane of my existence for the last few days. So I have the IFBD-HW03/04 model, which isn’t even mentioned really in the manual. That means that my firmware…