My Life With BusinessObjects

Please welcome Benjamin Joseph Marks, who entered the world at 11:23 PM on Friday, January 15, 2010.  He weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. (3.327 kg) and 20 inches (51 cm).  He and his mom are doing well and came home to meet my two daughters today (Sunday). My two daughters were born in 2001 and [...]

Intimidated by the plethora of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store? Josh Clark has compiled a list of over 200 “best” iPhone apps in a new book, Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. The book has a companion web site, Best iPhone Apps: The Site for Discriminating Downloaders. The apps are organized [...]

I’ve been blogging about SAP BusinessObjects on Blogger for almost two years. Over time, I’ve started using other social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. And just this month, I became the proud owner of an Apple iPhone 3GS. So this week during a vacation, it made perfect sense for me to read [...]

My Palm Treo 680 died a slow, painful death. I still have a conspiracy theory that mobile phone companies jack with older phones’ network connections to get you into their stores to buy new phones and sign new contracts. But I’m an IT consultant, so a dead phone is simply not an option. My wife [...]

As the entire world eagerly awaits the announcement of the next Apple iPhone model, here’s a fascinating article entitled “Shooting to Software Stardom on the iPhone“about how fame and fortune can become yours if you develop the right iPhone application. On a related note, Timo Elliot reviews RoamBI, a BI front end for the Apple [...]

Here’s another reason for me to justify an iPhone purchase – TripIt for the iPhone. I’ve blogged about TripIt previously and find it tremendously useful for organizing my itineraries as a traveling consultant. I’m still hobbling along with a Palm Treo 680 smartphone but am anxiously looking forward to a new iPhone model, which is [...]