Original artwork by my wife in the chalk and driveway medium.
The Complete Ross
More Ross Than You Require
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Long story short, I’ve been working with the web in one form or another for the past 10+ years. In my role as Chief Architect at Appiphony, I'm focused on cloud computing with the Force.com platform.
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Mommy and Hannah:
Bumblebee and little green bugs:
I didn’t even notice they were bugs, at first.
Blue butterfly:
Caught in the act with my iPhone 4.
Gourmet sea salt:
An economist friend is writing an article about salt, and needs a photo.
New GApps features? Prepare for enterprise complaints.
I wish I could dig up the link, but some time ago Google announced they were putting effort into unifying the code bases between their consumer products (Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.) and the Google Apps suite designed to work with your company’s domain name. The products have the same core functionality, so on the surface this makes a lot of sense.
However, Gmail gets new features at an extremely rapid pace. Within just the last week, we’ve seen both the Priority Inbox and Google Voice integration released, in beta of course. And if you’ve worked in the IT department of a medium-to-large company, you know that “change management” policies would never allow features to dribble out like this.
I see an analogy in the way that software updates automatically get pushed to Android phones. Some Android users I know have complained that a forced update installed to their last-generation phone made it slower and buggier. (Being an iPhone guy myself, I’m not sure if this can be disabled.) If new features showed up for users automatically, in something as critical as e-mail, without the knowledge or consent of corporate IT…yowza.
Best-case scenario, I would expect bumps in the road, since this feels like the type of thing that Google does not usually excel at…call it support, communications, “enterprise tooling” or anything else. If it’s not core engineering, it’s not truly in their DNA.
Signage:
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment: take a photo of something metallic. The pole and the sign are both worn in their own…charming…ways.
I guess I’m not supposed to park here, but I think I should also see these bands and maybe check out an art installation.
Good morning:
Another shot goosed with Camera+.
Old wagon:
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment: take a photo of a tool.
This busted up wagon is a useful tool at the local nursery.
(Photo taken with the iPhone4 and enhanced with Camera+. Really digging that app lately.)
Retro light fixture:
At Club Lucky in Bucktown.
Snuggle puppy
iPad Gripe Session
Khoi Vinh:
As a gesture to invoke the Undo command, shaking a handheld device the size of an iPhone is clever and workable. Shaking a much larger device like the iPad is awkward at best…
Shake to Undo always struck me as very un-Apple-like. On top of being silly, most users will forget it’s there since it’s invisible. Back in my day, Apple wouldn’t manufacture a multi button mouse since they knew inevitably features would be hidden under the “right-click” menu.
Marco.org: A-1 Courier Service has ruined Amazon Prime
If you order something from Amazon in New York City with two-day, overnight, or same-day shipping, there’s a good chance that it will be delivered by A-1 Courier Service instead of FedEx or UPS.
But they have a major problem with losing packages.
What Would Apple Do? Acquire a stake in a delivery company or build one.
Dessert:
Looked better than it tasted, actually.
