Tag: offbeat

Last week Trish & I went to Cancun
We’d planned this sometime ago and we had a really nice week

Visited Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itzá, and went snorkelling a couple times

On the ride over to Isla Mujeres we sat near this gent from Goa India who was on board without his girlfriend (she was sick that day)
We struck up a conversation and it turns out he’s in the same line of work I am
And we had a great visit for about 2 hours
I’m sure Trish was bored as heck as we talked nothing but tech & geek topics the entire time

And when we finally departed the boat we both made a deliberate & concerted effort to find the other & thanked each other for what turned out to be a great conversation which made the trip even nicer

It made nice day even nicer to meet someone as passionate about the things we talked about

And then the last evening we were there we sat with another resident of the condominium and her daughter.… Read the rest

Great read. May be pay walled. But great read.

Cant say much more than that

With all the hoopla going on about R2 I have been reading some things that are NOT programming related. Not my usual sort of thing to read.

Stuff like this.

And as I read the article I kept saying to myself Uh huh, Yup and Dead On. And the initial observation he made about

Customers switch because the first company let them down.

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Reading the latest blog post about “Your path forward with API 2.0” just reassured me that the pain API 2.0 brought to third parties was not understood. It puts those who create and sell code to others or who sell applications to a broad base of customers across many OS versions in a tough spot.

Xojo is a great tool.… Read the rest

I’ve seen a number of people say they are not renewing their subscription to Xojo. And because of that they are also cancelling subscriptions to third party products they rely on when using Xojo.

IF you are one of the people please let Geoff know why you are not renewing or are leaving.

As developers we need to be more than just average consumers of technology.

That means we need to be more realistic about things like system updates and patches than just blindly installing them especially on our primary working machine.

At the very least we need to be able to test the very latest. You know our users are going to install the latest betas and run them as soon as possible.… Read the rest