Social, social, social. It has become a dominant and constant presence in our day to day lives. Companies, advertisers, marketing…they are all trying to leverage Social. Tap into that community. For profit, for gain, for engaging with an audience. Its almost a news source, but yet another pitfall of deceit (Hurricane Sandy and...
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So it’s that time of year again. Time for me to look back at my music charts over the last year, thanks to the awesome last.fm, and see how my listening habits and music tastes have changed (or not). And that also means its time for me to dedicate an entire blog post that only a few will find interesting. But in the words of...
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I know what you are thinking, we don’t need any more quotes from Hackers or Real Genius. Well, point in fact, you’re just completely wrong about that. But that’s not what this is about. #TechMovieQuotes is something my good frozen northerner Canadian friend Scott Morgan and I came up with earlier today, and its all...
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So today the webernets (not the alleged word “blogosphere”…if you use that word, you are a moron) have been re-posting the story about having Flash installed on a laptop can reduce the battery life by up to 33%. Really? You mean something I have installed, that by its very nature requires power to run, uses my...
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And you all thought Batman was some yuppie bastard driving around in a hummer with roid rage. Nope. He’s a cat. And he will crush his enemies and hear the lamentations of their women. Unless there’s...
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The practice of storefronts asking for one’s zip code when one buys something (especially clothing retailers) has been around for some time, but it seems a more and more common practice now. The thing about this is that it serves me, as the customer/consumer, virtually no purpose whatsoever. One could argue that it eventually...
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I have been thinking about writing a follow-up to my post on Eight Reasons why Most Technical Interviews Suck, more from the perspective of the person being interviewed, as the two different perspectives are crucial for both the employer and the job-seeker to understand. However, I saw a post (via LifeHacker) on Shiyan Koh’s...
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Being in the internet industry (or outside of it, as well), its likely you’ve either heard people say they hate Flash often enough, or you yourself say it. But have you ever stopped to wonder at the hypocrisy and complete bias shown by this statement? For the sake of full disclosure, I have a rather lengthy background in Flash...
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Josh Rhoades is a technology Director (the awesome kind) of Front End Engineering, Software Engineering, and Flash Architecture teams, based in Los Angeles, California. He has lead multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, worked on theme park attractions like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Midway Mania!, snuck across borders, led multiple developments and launches of Disney.com, fought the law, looked into an abyss, kissed an eel, and rescued at least one damsel in distress. Read about what happened the next day »
