The HB477 Working Group and Making Utah a Little More Open
The press release just went out. I’m going to be joining the Utah State Senate-sponsored working group, aiming to bring Utah’s open records laws into the 21st century. I’ll be among other notables such as Phil Windley (CTO, co-founder of Kynetx and former Utah State CTO, founder, Internet Identity Workshop), who are all experts in […]
Read more...Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing
Developers are up in arms over new changes to Twitter’s policies. Today Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s Director of Platform, stated in an email to developers that “developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no.” I applaud the effort however, as Twitter […]
Read more...Utah Just Made Government Across the U.S. a Little More Closed
I don’t get political on this blog very often (honestly, I hate politics), but when I do you can know either 1) it’s technology related, or 2) it’s important to me. This one is both of those. The issue is related to Utah’s House Bill 0477 (please read the whole thing if you get a chance), […]
Read more...The iPhone is my All-in-One Device. Why do I Need an iPad?
Last year I mentioned I was torn on the need for the iPad, but that it could very well be a “context-aware monitor that I can take anywhere.” I’m rethinking that now though. I go to work, I have a 27″ Cinema Display. I come home, I have TV screens in every room, and a […]
Read more...Huffington Post to Scare Users About Their Addresses, Phone Numbers
I decided I should prepare you for what is to come. You’re already seeing (hence my title – you can read more here), and will see over the coming weeks a hailstorm of critique, saying Facebook is sharing your phone numbers and addresses with third party sites and applications. Huffington Post’s (see the link above), […]
Read more...Like ’em or Hate ’em, Paypal May be the Best Checking Account Alternative for Business Banking
Most of you know my relationship with Paypal. They sent my wife away in tears on a recent Ebay transaction, and their customer service can be horrible at times (I’m now out $230 of my own money because of it, and because supposedly they can’t trust me). At the same time I’m on their Developer […]
Read more...How to Replace Twitter With Facebook
I just wrote about how Twitter is becoming much less necessary for me. In this post, I’d like to show you how, with just a few steps, you can get exactly what you’re getting on Twitter and more with just a Facebook account and a Page you administer. It’s actually really simple now. Here are […]
Read more...With Facebook’s New Page Design, Do We Really Need Twitter?
(Alternate Title: “Twitter: 3 Years Later and Nothing’s Changed”) Talks of acquisition, deprecation of whitelisting, charging for API access – Twitter’s doing all they can to reduce cost and become more profitable. It’s actually a typical story for them. I’ve written the same post several years in a row – about 4-5 years strong and […]
Read more...Families Can Be Together Forever
I hope you’ll forgive this diversion from tech so I could share something that touched me. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (my employer, and Faith) just released this video and I just had to share it. It’s based on a song I’ve sung since a kid. In my faith this carries a […]
Read more..."Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day
Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions. There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size. FamilySearch.org is one of those, with a claimed database size of over 1 billion individual records, and […]
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