Tim’s Blog
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Thoughts On Leadership and Groups
Building software teams is hard. Fostering culture, improvement, learning and community in a group of individuals that have other options is a difficult thing to do. Fortunately, it’s not all that different than building many other kind of groups. Yet too often, we fail to look around at other successful groups and learn from their…
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Facebook Gender Analysis With R
I like working with social APIs, and have been working with R more lately. So I combined the two. I saved the json results of asking facebook for all of my friends using the graph api. Using the rjson package for R, I loaded the data into R and broke down the count of friends…
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VicinityBuzz Update: Windows Phone 8 & More
While attending Codemash a few weeks ago, I ended up in a Windows Phone development precompiler (Codemash’s name for a training session). It was my plan to hit mostly mobile and analytics sessions, but I was not originally planning on attending this session. With Windows Phone still struggling for market share, I wasn’t in a…
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Ownership: Artist or Engineer?
There are varying ways that a client / service relationship can work, and this view can be the cause of harmony or discord in projects. It’s something I’ve understood for a while, but had trouble explaining at times. What follows is an attempt to explain my view of something that knowledge workers need to understand…
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XBoxOne’s Problem With Mixed Metaphors
Blue Ocean Strategy is a powerful thing. The Wii took great advantage of this, as has Apple and others. Some people try to cite this as an example of the direction for Microsoft’s upcoming XBoxOne. But that ocean isn’t blue anymore. Older parents and grandparents that bought Wii’s aren’t looking for another box. Certainly not…
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