Software, Business, and Life
Jun 10 2010
On Feb. 27 at St. Louis Innovation Camp 2010, I gave a talk on the SaaS business model. I posted the slides, handout, audio, and transcript soon thereafter. Here, finally, is a video of the 44-minute-long talk. Why did it take over three months to get online? Read on below.
This is an x.264 video, shown [...]
May 27 2010
This is yet another story that I’ve told dozens of time to individual and groups, and now finally written down. Here is a short video talk:
As usual, the vimeo page offers it for HTML5, non-Flash platforms like the iPad.
Back in 2004 I co-founded Mobile Workforce Management, a vertical market SaaS firm. For the first 6+ [...]
May 19 2010
I’ve told this story in person dozens of times, it’s time to write it down and share it here. I’ve again experimentally recorded a video version (below), which you can view on a non-Flash device here.
I know a little Prolog, which I learned in college – just enough to be dangerous. Armed with that, and [...]
May 07 2010
I’m trying something new with this post: a short video presentation of approximately the same content.
This is a Vimeo video, embedded as Flash. You can go over to Vimeo to watch it with HTML5-video devices like an iPad. I expect to offer better quality and more options as I learn more.
Here is an area of [...]
Jan 10 2009
Brett Rampata pointed out this very slick “Direct Manipulation of Video” demo video:
Here is a more explanatory video from the same project:
I’m curious how difficult it was to create that behavior. I’m confident that our customers (we build a variety of video applications for our customers at Oasis Digital) would be thrilled by it.
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Oct 16 2007
This is an oldie-but-goodie: Guy Steele’s “Growing a Language” talk from OOPSLA 1998.
It is amazing to me that Guy, whose is something of a legend in language design, and who thinks so clearly about what makes a good language, was also key in designing Java. Java has been extremely slow to grow in the sense [...]
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