A few times in your life you read a book that changes your life, this was not the case with Rework, it validated my life. Rework is a book about the founders of 37Signals (Ruby on Rails and BaseCampHQ fame) and their no nonsense approach to life and business. My new rule is any business partner of mine has to read this book and understand its value or we won’t be partners for long. The chapters in the book are one to two pages long and gets to the point. No MBA drawn out repetitious case studies but real work practical examples.

Chapters include:

·         Interruption is the enemy of productivity

·         Meetings are toxic

·         Your estimates suck

·         ASAP is poison

·         You need less than you think

·         Start a business, not a start-up

·         Press releases are spam

This has been the best business book I have read since Joel and Software. Only take 1-2 hours to read.

Once or twice a year I look at job openings with real companies. They all want degree in X, experience in stifling process in Y, requirements my experience never fits. I need a job posting that reads, “Required candidates need 10+ experience of figuring it out”.

After reading this book I realized there are other people out there that operate like I do, it is nice to have reaffirmation once in awhile. If you are a partner or owner of a small business or the black sheep in a large organization, this book is for you.

A few times in your career you get to be involved in a project that will stay your memory as a special project. The One Million Acts of Green (OMAOG) campaign by CBC (sponsored by Cisco) is one of those projects.

Before OMAOG my favorite project was the CETS project with Microsoft Canada and Toronto Police Services. CyberSecure (an old company of mine) got engaged by Microsoft to secure the infrastructure (which resides in the RCMP data center) that helped police officers track down child exploit offenders.

Now with GreenNexxus being one of the core components of the CBC green website is very exciting, plus getting photos on the set of “The Hour” was pretty cool.

MacAppetite (Sean and Ryan) has released (and mega excited) its first iPhone app to Apple’s iPhone AppStore. If you are a delicious user and an iPhone user I say this is a must have application for your iPhone. It stores your delicious bookmarks on your iPhone, you can search your bookmarks and look at your bundles right on the iPhone.

Go directly to the iTunes Store and take a look at Red Delicious.

Having all my Windows machines backing up successfully now it was time to get my Macbook to be backed up. Looking at Apple’s Time Machine (OS X included backup software) it looked like it would only backup to Apple’s Time Capsule (Apple’s Wireless Hard Drive), but searching the Internet I found how to have Time Machine see a Windows Share. Tell me why would that not be default?

First there was the Commodore Amiga, my all time favorite computer. Then I was drawn into the world of Windows. I really do like Vista x64 on a kick butt computer. But now I want to do iPhone development. So to do that I got to do the development on ObjC on OS X. I have created a web site on my Mobile Me account to journal my learning experiences and rants (good and bad) about my adventure with my new computing platform.

Please visit Ryan’s Mac Site