My grandfather died last week of a massive heart attack. He would have been 93 this Friday. 93 sounds old but he wasn’t. He was very active and fit, lived with my grandmother (whom he was married to for 72 years) in the same house they have been in for 20 years without any help, [...]
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Goodbye, Grandpa.
April 12, 2011My Past and Calculation’s Future: A Teaser
March 24, 2011I have spent my professional career in the depths of numbers and formulas, financial, scientific or otherwise. It is an odd thing as I was never really a math guy but I always loved numbers, especially when I was a kid. Before I learned to program at age 13 I would create sports games with [...]
The Power of Your Own App
February 24, 2011John Economaki runs Bridge City Tools, a 25-year old company that makes finely-crafted woodworking tools. John was working on a new tool, the extremely cool Angle Master Pro (see the video here), and wanted to develop an app instead of producing a booklet. The booklet had massive tables covering thousands of angle calculations for calibrating [...]
A New Year, A New Perspective: Web Economics in an App World
January 16, 2011January starts my 14th year running Infinity Softworks and being in the mobile space. I have seen this market change drastically in those years, from a market dominated by Palm to a market dictated by Microsoft, from handheld computers to smartphones, from Nokia and BlackBerry to Apple and Google. And, from my perspective, the most [...]
Now There’s An App For That
November 3, 2010For years, we were the only ones. Sure there were other calculators made by shareware developers or guys in their living rooms who tried to compete. But no one came close. After all, we had an advantage. Teri Graf, my long-time VP of Sales, and I went out and completed bundling deals with everyone selling [...]
