Changing jobs and a new career path

July 7th was my last day with the Gauntlet team as Chief Architect at Borland and July 17th is my first day as VP of Technology Strategy at Yahoo.

Changing jobs is almost always an ambiguous time for me, this time it is even more so. On the…

Apple MacBook Pro and the DTK

I finally had the ability to upgrade my Powerbook after waiting about 8 months too long. But it turns out that wasn’t the only good news today.

Let’s first compare what you get from Apple vs. something somewhat equivalent from Dell. There is no exact…

How to keep your feed URL but use Feedburner for a better feed

A couple of months ago I started using Feedburner to manage my RSS feed but I didn’t want to have to change the current feed URL and lock myself to them.

Use PPC VPN & PPC Flip4Mac on your Intel MacBook Pro or iMac

One of the things missing from the MacBook Pro was the ability to play WMV3 files in Safari and connect to my companies VPN through their browser plugin.

Apple Intel iMac 17" with benchmarks

I received my 17" iMac today in exchange for my Developers Transition Kit. This was perhaps the coolest deal I’ve seen for developers. I signed up with $1000 thinking I was leasing a $1500 machine for 1.5 years back in June. Instead it turns out I was buying a…

Things I found at Yahoo! I didn’t know they had

Starting at a new company is a good opportunity to do a survey and discover all the nooks and crannies that you may not have seen when you were outside. For instance, I had a few things on my list of services I wanted that turn out already exist.