Articles for category: Delivery

January 27, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Evolution of Developer Conferences

The yearly conference is a welcome addition to any developer’s planned events for the year. It’s an opportunity to meet with colleagues around the world, meet new friends, perhaps meet with customers and of course, to relax and learn some new tricks of the trade. Boiled down to two words: Collaboration and Learning. This was 5 years ago, now there is a third component to Developer Conferences – “Exclusivity”. Aaah yes, now some (not all) conferences are managed based on how exclusive they are, how many people can sign up within X minutes, how many limited seats will be filled and by

January 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

In a World… of Constant Relaunches

Remember when you were a kid, starting to collect to comic books at issue #373 of your favourite Superhero? What went through your mind?  What was the first thing? That before issue #374 and beyond you would try to collect as many back issues as possible to understand everything about your favourite character, every back story and side romance, every change in powers and team make-up all so you could have the complete picture. Everyone loves a new project, it’s fresh and pure and has no history behind it – we are baggage free, the team is new and we

January 19, 2016

Greg Thomas

Does the Cloud Make us Lazy?

Remember when everyone was paranoid about putting their documents into the cloud because someone might steal them? Have you checked to see if you have an iCloud account lately? Have you checked to see if you are syncing files between your Dropbox and OneDrive accounts?  Maybe you are doing both? Do you even know? Does it matter? Is everything you want up there what you want up there? This isn’t a critique on these services, what they offer and do for us. It’s a critique on us not knowing where our information is and where it is going. With all these Cloud

January 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

Experiments Update

For three weeks I’ve been focussing on my Experiments. Delete all Games from my Phone Sounds boring right?  Perhaps, I thought I’d been spending too much time sitting around, when a moment of boredom hit, I’d pull out the phone and start playing the latest solitaire game.  Nothing exciting, nothing crazy. Perhaps I’m playing the wrong games you say? Or perhaps I could be doing something else, something different?  I almost installed one last week, downloaded it, installed, played a level.  Then I deleted it. Why?  I liked not defaulting to playing games when a moment of boredom hit – I

January 11, 2016

Greg Thomas

iMessage is the new BBM

Remember when everyone had a Blackberry and the iPhone came out and people were reluctant to switch because they’d lose all their BBM contacts and that would be horrible? It wasn’t about Security or User Experience or Pin-2-Pin communication. It was about the People. People who you talk to, connect with, interact with in a personal or group manner on an ongoing basis. My kids won’t go to another phone because it doesn’t have iMessage on it and they’d be left out of the conversation, they’d miss something and they don’t want to.  Sure other Universal Chat apps have come

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