juwo

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

False arguments on Tithing

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Pastors often mention Jesus affirmation of tithing to the Pharisees. However this overlooks a crucial fact - Jesus was under the law just li...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Idea on security in Android.

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Is it possible for software to automatically parse through a program that is about to be installed, and determine how it is using its resour...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Trouble using your eHome eh100 wireless router?

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After ensuring that the cables are not mixed up, reset the router using a paper clip. The reset button is in a tiny, easy-to-miss hole at th...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

titbits left out from the Android documentation

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Excellent explanation by Dick Wall (from thread http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/31e6ecd386b29cbe/2901a...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Using gmail or Android marketplace without Data plan (T-mobile)

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Just wanted to post this in case someone else finds it useful. Unfortunately, T-mobile reps incorrectly insist you cannot open the Android M...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

How to duplicate a row of a database table, with foreign key dependencies

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I was required to duplicate a row of a database table, with foreign key dependencies. It is not a trivial problem as the dependent rows of t...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Using Model-View-Controller differently - to isolate volatile parts of your application

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Even if your application does not have a GUI, you can benefit from MVC. I was trying to write automated tests using JUnit/Cactus and it qui...
Monday, June 21, 2010

What Next Android?

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Just my 2 cents. Google will do its own thing regardless of all the developers hanging from the Android train - our financial wellbeing is ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Can we use a computer from Nature to attack the Traveling Salesman Problem?

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The traveling salesman problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) tries to find the shortest route covering all po...
Friday, July 24, 2009

How to handle nested beans using Commons-dbutils

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Background: When we query data from the database, we fill it into objects. These objects are called beans and conform to certain guidelines ...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

Understanding why George Tiller performed partial birth abortions with an untroubled conscience

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“These are the things we do,” he said, pointing to color snapshots of aborted fetuses. “Hydrocephalus, spina bifida, fused legs, open spine,...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Memories of Cedar Lake

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"Fond memories from my boyhood..." (Chris said)
Sunday, March 8, 2009

iphone or android development?

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For those wondering whether to chose iphone or android development, here is a great blow-by-blow narrative by Ed Burnette He also has this w...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Before you startup, count the cost

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Update: Praise God for a job offer I received from a company that is implementing a project at the US Dept of Agriculture in Kansas City, ...
Friday, September 5, 2008

Android leftovers

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The problem was Google's attitude. They love brilliant people, and despise people who are average. Anyone who has gone through the hirin...
Monday, May 19, 2008

web advertising is Google's Achilles heel

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I feel web advertising is Google's Achilles heel. How effective is an advertisement? People don't really know. That is how Google pr...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

juwo as a framework for other applications

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juwo is misunderstood and much maligned - probably because of its non-intuitive and poorly designed user interface. Yet, it is powerful in c...
Monday, May 5, 2008

To Google: please make your Android strategy win-win, not win-lose.

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To Google - Dan Morill, Rick Miner, Google Android Advocates and Brin(?) - please make your Android strategy win-win, not win-lose. In the h...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

I am in a serious struggle

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I was laid off last week. It had something to do with my approaching the company founder - Augustus Grassis and offering him equity in juwo ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Android redesign - suggestions for Google

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use a thick arrow anchored at the bottom edge to indicate when there is an overflow of data so that user must scroll down. allow file names ...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

focus on money rather than novelty

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I realized something recently; In Science, Inventing and Engineering, we look for and celebrate what is novel, ingenious and revolutionary. ...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Simple idea suggestion for Google - make Android available for the desktop

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Android is Google's new baby - an open mobile development platform. As developers, we are developing applications for android, running t...
Friday, August 24, 2007

My Status Report Template

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I have a status report by week and updated daily in a simple text file. It rolls over, day by day. It should work for small startups. Strang...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

How does one break out of the customer-investor-team-product conundrum?

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I have found it to be worse than catch-22, a pyramid. We are starting at one or more apexes and building to a third, which we then use as a ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

On the stress of being an Entrepreneur

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Just noticed these thoughts written by me, a year ago. On the stress of being an Entrepreneur. June 2006. Stress. - Trying to find partners ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

You will succeed when you execute Powerful Advice

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We think of advice as a suggested course of action coming from other people, from our environment. However we are most often our own advisor...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

The exasperating problem with advice

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the right advice when executed well can turn around a company can prosper you can diagnose a disease correctly can prevent mishaps can save ...
Friday, May 4, 2007

Ideas are Worthless? Wrong! Ideas can solve problems

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Some Venture Capitalists (VCs) and investors are keen to promote the idea that Ideas are Worthless. (for example, see Graham or Kawasaki ) ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

juwo beta is released

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Exhilarated? No. Tired. Very. Released it with the demos. Announced it on the YCombinator newsgroup . Was roasted - scathing feedback, but s...
Friday, April 6, 2007

How to make your software easier to use?

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"juwo, in its present state, is not easy to use". I have heard this enough times that I am taking it very seriously. I have been t...
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Our Plan B

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- release juwo/NP on Cnet with 'donate' button and 'feedback' button - do (task0, task1, task2, task3,task4,task5,task6) in ...
Friday, March 30, 2007

The new startup. young-old teams

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'I wish I had the boy' the old man said aloud. 'To help me and to see this' (The Old Man and the Sea) Sorry but I am on a ro...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

A better business model for incubators - innovation by collaboration? (orphanage vs. foster parenting)

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My employer (he is an entrepreneur himself with a bootstrapped and established startup) is interested in my product, juwo (or so he says he ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

idea-team matchmaking. The shore is crowded; get into the boats!

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'I worked the deep wells for a week, and did nothing', the man thought. (The Old Man and the Sea) With that random quote from Hemmin...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

co-founder match making?

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I see many people searching for cofounders. Here is a nascent idea that I just had. May be stale, I dont know (I am embarrassed to write som...
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Friday, March 2, 2007

I need your advice! Startup Failing. Should I simply release the product?

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I need your advice! Startup Failing. Should I simply release the product? (See my last post on where I am. http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Has juwo failed or how can it turn around?

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May 2005 till May 2006, two iterations of prototyping. May-December 2006, one further iteration and then trying to find business partners, i...
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