Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Path to Victory

A skillfully executed business strategy is one path to victory. Many strategy books will tell business owners how to win at the expense of the competition, how to take market share away from the competition, and so on.

The book Blue Ocean Strategy proposes a non-typical path to victory over the competition. According to the authors, following a blue ocean strategy will make your competition irrelevant.

Building iOS Apps With RubyMotion

Special thanks to the organizers of MagicRuby and Aloha Ruby for inviting me to present RubyMotion at their respective conferences. Confreaks recorded video at the Aloha Ruby event.

The fizzbuzz sample code can be found on GitHub. Slides are on SpeakerDeck.

Should you use RubyMotion or Objective-C for iOS development? That depends…

Using RubyMotion With Xcode's Interface Builder

Executive Summary

RubyMotion is a Mac application that lets developers write iOS apps in Ruby. It’s possible to create the user interface for the app entirely within RubyMotion or with a Ruby gem like Teacup. But what about devs who prefer Interface Builder?

This article will show how to use Xcode’s Interface Builder to create a basic UI for a RubyMotion application.

Clear Innovation

Some organizations are innovative, while others are just lucky. How can you tell the difference? I would submit that longevity is a great divider between true innovators and those who are just lucky. An organization that generates new ideas time after time breaks the statistical rules that define luck. These are the organizations worthy of study.

Theodore Roosevelt's Arena

This is one of my favorite quotes from TR. Pardon the bias toward the male gender. This was written in the early 1900s.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

~Theodore Roosevelt