July 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Announcing the Bespin Plugin Gallery
The past couple months at Mozilla I’ve been plugging away (sorry for the pun) at the Bespin Plugin Gallery, and we’ve announced today that it’s officially live.  Yay! But wait, let’s back up a sec.  First we need to talk about Bespin, because most of the people I talk to don’t know about this Mozilla-sponsored project.  Bespin is a code editor that you can embed...
Jul 29th
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200,000 Icons in the Icon Rainbow
In the initial launch of Icon Rainbow, an icon color analyzer, we featured a small subset of 5,000 icons from the Apple iTunes store.  But Crystal and I knew that Icon Rainbow couldn’t be considered a fully developed project until we had the icons for all of the iPhone apps in the iTunes app store.  Well, it’s official - the Icon Rainbow now features the icons for all 200,000 apps in the iTunes...
Jul 19th
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Creating Convenience when following Pollan's Food...
For the month of June, I made a number of commitments to myself, including following the guidelines laid out by Michael Pollan in his book Food Rules.   Following these rules wasn’t terribly difficult, as I already practiced a number of guidelines laid out in the book.  But where I got tripped up the most was on the days I was working long hours and needed quick, convenient meals and beverages to...
Jul 4th
June 2010
3 posts
Jun 18th
WatchWatch
We just launched a new feature on Foodgeeks that shows all of the seasonal fruits and vegetables that are grown fresh in your state at the current moment.  I’m talking briefly about this feature, but also encouraging people to thing ingredients first, not recipes first, when preparing meals.
Jun 11th
1 tag
Hitting the Reset of Button
I haven’t felt the best recently.  I haven’t been sick - I just constantly feel like I’m tired and recovering from overworking, overplaying or overindulging.  And when I’m in recovery mode, I don’t feel like I’m fully present, and therefore not able to really to give it my all in my work life or in my personal life.  So, this month I’m hitting the reset...
Jun 2nd
May 2010
3 posts
3 tags
Upgrading from Kohana 2.3.x to 2.4
At Mozilla we’re using Kohana as the PHP framework behind a number of our sites, including the UI for the Crash Reporter, the Creative Collective and Jetpack Gallery.  I’ve been upgrading one of our sites from Kohana 2.3.4 to Kohana 2.4 to determine how difficult it will be to upgrade our other Kohana sites.  For a dot release, this upgrade is much more time intensive than I’d...
May 19th
3 tags
Hey, ho, it's the Icon Rainbow!
If you know me, then you know that I get really bored when I am not dealing with a wacky problem that needs to be solved.  When Crystal Beasley (@skinny) approached me with an idea about writing a color analyzer to help quench her one of her geeky designer itches, I couldn’t turn down solving such a fun problem. The Icon Rainbow (@iconrainbow) is a color analyzer for iPhone app icons.  In...
May 10th
May 10th
April 2010
4 posts
Shizzow: What I would have done differently
It’s been nearly 3 months since I announced that I left Shizzow, and I’ve finally been removed from it long enough to write a reflection piece.   I definitely share Dawn Foster’s sentiments in her great reflection post and promise not to repeat too much of what she stated.  I will reiterate that we definitely spent too much time putting the cart before the horse, whether...
Apr 25th
WatchWatch
This is me discussing the food revolution and some thoughts on how Foodgeeks can help make embracing the revolution a little less daunting for new foodies.
Apr 16th
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March 2010
2 posts
Mar 18th
1 tag
Mar 10th
February 2010
9 posts
Feb 25th
WatchWatch
Found this in Buzz via @donpdonp.  Wow.  I need to watch this a few more times to really let some of these “points” sink in.
Feb 24th
1 tag
Feb 23rd
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Feb 14th
WatchWatch
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Feb 13th
Shizzow: Signing Off →
Announcing that I am stepping down from Shizzow.
Feb 3rd
January 2010
10 posts
Riouolo Pink Prosecco del Veneto Raboso →
If you can find this wine, it will become your new favorite wine.
Jan 31st
Jan 30th
Jan 23rd
A List of Regional Pizza Styles →
Jan 21st
Jan 20th
Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" →
This is a must-read for any citizen of the United States.  Wonderfully composed.
Jan 18th
2 tags
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who...”
– Carl Jung
Jan 14th
3 notes
1 tag
Jan 13th
2 tags
Accomplishments in 2009, Challenges for 2010
I came into the year 2009 with the goal of becoming better at product development, as a project owner, a project manager and as a developer.  Reflecting back on the year, I’m pretty stoked about what I was able to accomplish (of course, with the help of some fabulous people): 1.2009 - Released the beta version of the Shizzow API 2.2009 - Released a middleware platform for OCP 3.2009 -...
Jan 5th
1 tag
Jan 5th
1 note
December 2009
1 post
2 tags
Dec 30th
November 2009
1 post
Foodgeeks, the End and the Beginning
On September 28th 2009, I ran into every website owner’s worst nightmare.  That morning, the Foodgeeks.com website was operating erratically, and after performing diagnostics on the server it became apparent that most of the files that ran both Foodgeeks and Winegeeks had become corrupted.  Fortunately, the databases were still intact and unblemished, so all 10,000 recipes and 2,000 wine...
Nov 2nd