Author Archives: Jonathan Lister

The Chromebook & me

October 1, 2011 – 1:15 pm

I just went to have a look at the Chromebook in the “Chrome Zone” at Tottenham Court Road’s PC World / Curry’s. I’ve resisted buying a tablet for more than a year, despite my gadgety inclinations, because of the general lack of keyboard, 3G and access to the software I use to do my job. [...]

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Twitter’s new image upload feature & your rights

August 11, 2011 – 9:12 am

Yesterday, Twitter launched its own image uploading service, which competes directly with TwitPic, yFrog and the like. Whilst this is all very interesting for those guys, one of the important things to know about before making use of this service is what rights you have to any images you upload. Remember the fuss when TwitPic [...]

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Spider

July 8, 2011 – 12:15 pm
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1000 days of Airbnb or “how to get press”

April 27, 2011 – 9:08 am

I just watched a video from November last, of an Airbnb founder, Brian Chesky, talking about the first 1000 days of his company. It’s one of those times when I’d had the browser tab open for about two weeks before getting to it, but I’m glad I did. In case you don’t know Airbnb, Brian [...]

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The experience of bad coffee

February 23, 2011 – 10:08 am

“Two cappuccinos please”. I see the operator pick up two cardboard cups. They have a terrible pattern on them. So I say, “Sugar in one please”. I’m hedging my bets. “Brown.” The ground coffee comes out of the hopper without a whiff. There is a light tamp, if you can call it that, when it [...]

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What software companies can learn from drug dealers

February 10, 2011 – 8:31 am

Last week, I opened an email from Sauce Labs, which described some upcoming new features of their service, including introducing a free account with a cap on usage. Sauce Labs is an online service for running browser tests on different operating system and browser combinations (using Selenium, if you’re interested). I really like what Sauce [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut & Destructive Testing

November 21, 2010 – 8:42 pm

I’m reading Kurt Vonnegut’s fantastic Breakfast of Champions at the moment. It’s the kind of book you can sail through, and reading it feels like unboxing a load of toys. About half way through (where I am now), he has one of the lead characters, a man called Dwayne, who is going crazy, tell a [...]

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International JavaScript show ‘n’ tell @ Async

November 11, 2010 – 9:46 pm

The Full Frontal JavaScript conference is tomorrow, so this is a very international audience. A bit of a show ‘n’ tell tonight at the fortnightly Async JavaScript meetup, hosted at The Skiff in Brighton… notes below. Links for the talks ought to be added to the Async blog post (http://asyncjs.com/showntell3/) by the speakers. The next [...]

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PaaS: A mid-2010 survey

August 24, 2010 – 4:46 pm

I’ve said in the past that I am a hands-off type of guy when it comes to servers. To avoid dealing with servers in any traditional sense, I have been keeping an eager eye on how things are going with server-side JavaScript, and the push-to-deploy type of application development (Heroku, Joyent Smart Platform). But there’s [...]

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Employee effect on the world’s biggest companies

July 11, 2010 – 11:55 am

I was wondering on Saturday how you could reasonably compare a large company with a loose band of freelancers, where the word “employee” doesn’t operate. I dug out of Wikipedia some statistics on the world’s biggest companies, figuring that a reasonable comparison would be the amount of money made per employee. The data is likely [...]

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