Intro Two years ago (Spring 2010) I was working on my Senior Design Project for the Tech Expo at Duke Energy Convention Center.  My project was titled, “Smart Player Piano”.  The whole project and experience was very rewarding a lot of fun.  It wasn’t until a couple days ago when I received an email from [...]

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So the title of this post might be a little misleading.  Most will think this post is about money and Facebook.  Afterall, Facebook is going public soon… but here we are talking about a different type of investment, your time and energy. By now you have most likely have heard about the new look Facebook [...]

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But from the other side, now I am a developer of apps. I see the thousands that enjoy and endlessly praise my apps while they are free but refuse to touch them as if they were a plague when they cost $0.99. I see the negative reviews people leave complaining that they have to pay for additional functionality in an already fully functional FREE game. I see the faceless users belittle my hours and days of late nights and weekends by saying, not worth four quarters. I know … I’m whining. But it fascinates and frustrates me to no end because I don’t understand why the dollar holds such a high value in the App Store. The consumer has every right to do all the things I have mentioned in this paragraph. I as the app developer, work for them.

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What a great a special day. We brought our first born home today. Just in time for some trick-o-treating!

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Yesterday my wife took me to see “The 39 Steps”, put on by The Company Theatre.  It was great.  It was based on an Alfred Hitchcock film which was based on an adventure novel by John Buchnan. We had a blast.  The play was taken on by four very funny, talented and ambitious actors (one [...]

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