May 2008 Entries
Keith Elder and I have been planning, working and now freeing to the public the newest and soon to be world dominating podcast Deep Fried Bytes. About The Show Deep Fried Bytes is an audio talk show with a Southern flavor hosted by technologists and developers Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff. The show discusses a wide range of topics including application development, operating systems and technology in general. Anything is fair game if it plugs into the wall or takes a battery. Episode 1 In this episode Keith and I sit down to discuss the...
Date -- June 2, 2008
Time -- 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Place -- Bull's Head Tavern in downtown Grand Rapids
We will meet the first Monday of the month (if holiday second Monday) at a different local restaurant in or near downtown Grand Rapids.
The purpose of the Grand Rapids TechLunch is to get like minded business and technology influencers from Grand Rapids and Western Michigan together to meet, exchange ideas and maybe even create some new ventures that will help the region. There are 3 team members for the group: Joel Ross, Matt Davis and myself. We need more motivated and passionate...
I have been curious in learning more about the Semantic Web. Very interesting ideas when the network is smart enough to understand the data and metadata transmitted through it. Are we there yet? Partially, with applications like Twine and <another SW app>. We are in the middle of the Social Network era when connect with others through applications the foundation applications email and IM and the new applications LinkedIn, Facebook, TripIt and MySpace. There is not much intelligence in the Social Network but the amount of information is amazing. What happens when these two networks collide and integrate? As I...
The official site for the Ann Arbor Give Camp is now ready for volunteers to sign up and pledge a weekend of development to local charities. Jennifer Marsman, Patrick Steele, Bill Wagner, Todd Bohlen and John Hopkins are the organizers of the 3 day event that pairs up developers with charities to give these charities some needed technology to benefit not only the charity but the people they server on a daily basis. "GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations" Want more information...