The Pains of Unpublishing a Non-Compliant Android App
So, I’ve been getting nastygrams from Google about an ancient (7.5 year+) app that no longer meets their content rating, privacy policy, description, or screenshot […]
Separating the Sheep from the Goats with Political Data Mining
In the 2012 U.S. presidential election we witnessed an unprecedented usage of data mining to increase the effectiveness of political campaigning. The incumbent President Obama […]
Using Switch-Case Statements and Fall Through Effectively
Switch-Case statements with fall through in Java are often cited as being the source of accidental bugs. Skip a ‘break’ statement and you end up […]
Moving the Big Rocks
The world lost Stephen Covey recently. Although the cult-like admiration of some of his followers always weirded me out a little, I think he had […]
Reluctantly Facebooking
It’s hard to believe I haven’t posted since February. Given the topic of my last blog post and the length of time that has passed […]
Adieu to Facebook
I deactivated my Facebook account tonight. I’ve been threatening it a while now. I finally reached my tipping point. While filling out the deactivation form, […]
Spring Annotations That Look More Like the Disease Than the Cure #Java
First off, I will preface this post with the caveat that I have a lot of respect for the Spring framework and the talented engineers […]
Ron Paul Making His Move?
The election results in New Hampshire tonight seem pretty unexpected to me. CNN is projecting Ron Paul to take second while trailing Romney by 15 […]
The Real Problem with Occupy Wherever #OWS
I have blogged before about what I see as zombie groups united more by rage than any particular ideals. I think some aspects of what I […]
The Problem With Free Web-based Services
I have been observing for quite a while the proliferation of free web-based services. The growth of these free services has caused me a great […]