In search of a decent Jira app on iPhone

At hCentive, we are big users of Jira Studio. Its been a big help for our distributed team. Unfortunately, I am yet to find a good app to use Jira [...]

when good people resign (to join you)

What should you do after you make an offer to hire an A+ player from a big company for your small startup?
Mark Suster – as part of his startup [...]

2 things every good startup needs

Robert Scoble has a great article today on his take on mistakes startups make.
You really should read his whole article but two things stand out for me.

FOCUS ON USP: [...]

weekend “reading”: amazon design philosophy

http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2009/06/01/presentation-revealing-design-treasures-from-the-amazon/
This is an excellent presentation about how amazon designs their website. You need about 60 minutes to go thru the whole thing but I suggest you give it a try [...]

Why web designers are over-rated

Wired did a competition inviting designers to improve craigslist.
As you can see, most designs actually decrease the functionality of Craigslist under the pretense of “making it beautiful” or “making it [...]

Omnifocus Syncing Design Goofup- what happens when geeks design interfaces

At the outset, I must say that I am a regular user of OmniFocus on my iphone and mac.
Its a very well designed product and I use it many times [...]

Opera Mini reports on Mobile Web

Opera has released stats for their Opera Mini browser that runs on some cellphones. Some highlights:

Users of Opera Mini browser worldwide grew 9% month on month and 357% year on [...]

UPDATE: Enterprise Software Stacks across Microsoft, Open source and commercial unix

Just out of curiostiy, I wrote up these nice, nifty software architectures as they exist in Open Source World and how do they compare with Microsoft’s and “Commercial Unix” offerings.
Just [...]

Namespace issues in XML to Java binding

My hacking with XML Binding to Java continued tonight. Tonight, I explored JAXB and the associted compiler XJC in more detail.
If you would remember, the problem is to parse a [...]