Kevin Cawley's Comments

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Useful App in 42 Minutes

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:23:50 +0000

man, now you got me all obsessed about understanding seo stuff after our convo... i have no interest in the $ side of things just the mechanisms of how it all works form a-z. damn you. now go back 2 building your personal brand :)

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Useful App in 42 Minutes

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:22:08 +0000

cool man... i'll be sure to let you know when i get the final map done. hope it helps people get out of their cars :) it's cross time now for me mainly... you have a cross rig? if so, head up to boulder wednesday am's for the group ride. it's good - pro peloton at 8.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Farewell NewsGator

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:25:37 +0000

i'm still looking and still finding Nick...

and that guy - newsgator is stacked with brilliant engineers and great people; i'm not even close to being too smart for the gator :)

Colorado Startups : Microsoft tech evangelist meetup, June 5, 930a in Boulder

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:28:58 +0000

cool - look forward to meeting anand.

http://www.jeffnolan.com/blog/ : Memo to the Semantic Web

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:31 +0000

That's awesome Jeff! I got a good laugh and for the most part agree with you. I do see the benefits of the semantic web... my graduate thesis was on this topic SIX YEARS AGO and not much has changed (that says a bunch right there and validates your point).

However, recently there has been some progress. I think Alex and company at Adaptive Blue (and a few others) are doing a pretty good job of nibbling the elephant's rear end and actually doing something on top of this fuzzy notion of a semantic web.

Jennlog : Top Ten Twitter Toys

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:16:44 +0000

Really psyched to see you find tiny twitter useful and great list of cool twitter supplements. Thanks Jenn.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Go! Get It - It's Free

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:26:54 +0000

Of course I remember you Jason! You had tons of great feedback back in the old days :) Thanks for all the kind words and glad NewsGator is treating you well!

Please do evangelize to all your friends and fam - and thanks for spreading the love!

Hope all is rocking and rolling with you.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Twitter Goodness on Your Mobile Device

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:25:04 +0000

Man, I take a weekend of skiing off the grid with the fam and my host upgrades their servers to Ruby on Rails 2.0.2. Good on them for getting the latest and greatest framework and bad on me for not being on top of that change :(

BTW, tried the quick and dirty method of forcing the app into an older version of rails but got no love... will fix ASAP.

Gwen Bell Dot Com | Heart of the Start : 2007 Retrospective: We Didn't Start the Fire

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:01:59 +0000

Wow... what a year you had. Makes my year seem... well, kinda boring :)

Welcome back to Boulder!

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Twitter Goodness on Your Mobile Device

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:48:02 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Tom - I picked up a Windows Mobile 6 device yesterday and now can actually test the app outside the emulator... this means I will use TT on WinMobile in the wild and make it mo betta... will be sure to get your suggestions in there!

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Twitter Goodness on Your Mobile Device

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:45:06 +0000

That's cool Gwen and yeh smartphone is still used... glad to hear you're coming back to town.

Thanks Adam and Alex too!

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Andoid Hello World in Under 10 Minutes

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:12:37 +0000

We'll definitely be doing a RSS reader for Android. It may not be for a while - I wouldn't expect an Android powered phone to be on the market for several months.

Definitely feel free to pass along any ideas/features/etc you have in mind - kevinc at newsgator.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Andoid Hello World in Under 10 Minutes

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:37:20 +0000

Nice! That's one way to avoid a technology... wait 'till it goes away :)

For whatever reason Flash Lite has never really gotten any traction. It's been on my radar for a couple of years but never enough to warrant a deep look.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Andoid Hello World in Under 10 Minutes

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:17:43 +0000

Once, you get a good J2ME dev environment setup, it's not too bad. But it did take me over an hour to get the J2ME Eclipse plugin configured, working, and executing "Hello World" from what I recall. That was my experience anyway.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Andoid Hello World in Under 10 Minutes

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:50:09 +0000

Neil did the same thing on his Mac in under 10 minutes - http://blog.opennetcf.com/ncowburn/2007/11/15/Fir...

Knowing Neil he actually did it in 5 minutes, while whipping up a new class in the Smart Device Framework, and didn't want to make me look bad :)

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Andoid Hello World in Under 10 Minutes

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:56:44 +0000

Your welcome... and I hope you build a killer mobile app for Android - I am excited about the possibilities w/ this platform too. At one point I was psyched about xhtml/wcss but then the iPhone changed that game up (for better or worse).

Let's see... here are some different "stacks" you can use to create mobile apps: SMS, MMS, WML/WAP, XHTML, HTML, Flash Lite, mobile Ajax, Symbian C++, .NET Compact Framework, J2ME, Palm SDK's, Brew, widgets(Widsets), Android, etc etc... not too confusing hey :)

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Android - Google Becomes a Man

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:11:55 +0000

I don't think we'll see a Google powered device that is as stunning and as tightly integrated as the iPhone. Apple has a huge advantage on this front as they control the software and hardware. Android is just an OS and device manufacturers can build a wide variety of phones that are powered by Android.

What we will see is more device options across all carriers at lower prices . And these devices will run the apps baked into Android as well as killer apps that 3rd party developers create. The winner will be the consumer here - and this is good!

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Google Open Social - Don't Believe the Hype

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:48:51 +0000

nope... not bagging on open standards. love open. I'm just not sipping this kool aid and trying to raise some concerns about the viability of this approach.

"Be the best and you'll get the most users. That's what open-ness is about. " True that... I just think that each of the hosts is gonna do their best to maintain and hold onto their biggest asset (people) and this approach is not gonna break down any walls at all.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Google Open Social - Don't Believe the Hype

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:44:42 +0000

agree on using different networks for different purposes for sure... just think that each of those networks may have their own agendas and will want to lock you in somehow and thus the fragmentation argument... maybe?

we'll see.

Kevin Cawley Goes Mobile : Google Open Social - Don't Believe the Hype

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:41:48 +0000

Good one on waiting around for communities... got a great point there for sure. In fact, I was discussing this with my friend and coworker Walker the other day and that was the same point he made. And I agreed!

But I think the j2me/open social analogy is solid. They are very similar. In both cases you have money making machines that want to lock you in or at least "enhance or tweak" the spec to their advantage. The result is fragmentation and the only way a j2me app will run across all mobile devices is if you spend lots of time tweaking for all mobile devices - unfortunately, I have forst hand experience with this ;)

And... do think open standards are a wonderful thing. Hey, I'm a developer diggin' in the trenches too :)