Archives: September 2010

Parents: This is What Your Founder of a Son Does

So what’s Anthony up to these days? I could have made it easy on my parents.  I could have become a chef — I did chefs training after I left college.  I could have become a Preschool Teacher — I worked in a preschool (children aged 4-5) for two years.  But no, I made it [...]

How Twilio Screwed Us Over

Update – should mention, I really like twilio. I like their product. But I was foolish to rely on them. I normally don’t write posts like this, but I felt there is an important lesson to be learned for developers of web apps. Today I received an email from Twilio. Twilio provides the SMS and [...]

The iPad Got Serious

I held out on getting an iPad for as long as possible, but relented and picked one up a little while ago.   Due to travel, I try and carry as little as possible, so every new purchase has to be justified and somewhat “essential”. Just a day after purchase, I will admit I was a [...]

Weekend Reading: Its Been a While

It’s been a while since I did one of these posts.  Here are the best posts I read all week.  If you’ve got nothing better to do this weekend – why not get some quality reading done: Travel Stuff My Quest for the Perfect Office Ok so Johnny wins the award for best office locations.    [...]

What People Pay For

What People Pay For: In relation to web apps. An important part of building an web app, is figuring out how its going to generate revenue.  If you fail to ignore this step, your app risks becoming a hobby as opposed to a business. And It’s all to easy to just throw up a bunch [...]