palmsolo’s personal blog

What have I been doing for 8 months?
I haven’t posted here since Granny Bolstad passed away in April as I have been focusing on my family and other projects, including my two ZDNet blogs and Nokia Experts site. I am doing very well and was just promoted to the highest level of Senior Associate at [...]

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… Between Platforms, Readers, and Vendors. The final session I was able to attend (there was one more presentation that I could not stay for due to obligations at home) was given by Mr. Craig Rairdin from Laridian. I will start my blog post off by letting you know that I was blessed with an [...]

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Not every presentation can appeal to all of us and I just could not grasp all of the data and methods of topic mapping desribed by Mr. Patrick Durusau in his talk. He is working on ISO 13250 standards for topic maps and it sounds as if this topic mapping is not just related to [...]

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I met Stephen Johnson at the beginning of the conference, after introductions, and learned he worked in Spokane for Olive Tree Bible Software. His presentation was taking place in room 1, which was primarily for the very techy people such as developers, but since he was talking about mobile then I made it a point [...]

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Drew Haninger was the presenter for the next session I attended that was the first one fully focused on mobile devices. Drew is the president of Olive Tree Bible Software and began by talking about their goal at the company. He presented the very crowded mobile landscape and I am sure that surprised many who [...]

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Stephen Smith led this next session in room 1 that I attended and you can view the slides he used in this pdf document. Stephen works for Crossway Books and Bibles and also writes the ESV Bible blog. After visiting the blog I learned there is even an iPhone-optimized ESV Bible that I plan to [...]

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This session was led by Troy A. Griffits and to tell you the truth I thought it was going to be something way over my head since I am primarily a user of technology and not a programmer. I was very pleased to learn that this session was indeed for the user like me as [...]

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