Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Very quick tip for you on how to customize your Cinnamon Start Menu in Linux Mint 14.  I’m only posting this because I spent more time on discovering this than I had to.  The problem for me was that it was too easy.  I was trying to make it... [More]

This post describes how we’ll consolidate our Windows and Linux MySQL development environment to leverage the strengths of both platforms and keep those lines of code flowing.  Our approach to this happy union is to assign a Static IP to our Linux bo... [More]

There are many excellent Samba configuration guides out there, but one more won’t hurt.  Here I will touch on some of the configuration issues that helped me quickly setup Samba on my Linux Mint PC and share content with other Windows PC on my Window... [More]

Quick tip on opening multiple documents in Gedit from the taskbar panel in Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon for you, just because you can.  Here’s what I’m talking about, a gedit window with two documents at the ready, PWs.txt and notes.txt.   The ar... [More]

MonoDevelop v3.0.3.2 installed like a snap using the Package Manager in Linux Mint and I was a happy coder until realizing I was missing all of the Version Control features I depend on.  Initial Googling yielded the consensus that a reinstallation of... [More]

We’re excited to announce that Sueetie Gamification Features are complete and release-ready for Version 4.1.  The gamification goals for v4.1 we posted on the Sueetie Roadmap upon v4.0’s release are now complete. Leaderboards, Points and Badges - An... [More]

Sinofsky does Windows 8. This is probably the seminole article to date on why Windows 8 Metro was born and Microsoft’s goals for the Metro user experience.  From Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows and Windows Live Division. A number of both hi... [More]

Second Screening. Another new term to describe how we’re using mobile technologies.  Second screening.  Love that. Not too long ago, consumers had one screen in front of them at a time, and it was either a PC, or a standard television set. Now, ... [More]

Mobile and Web as One. A title worth remembering from We Are Social. "Mobile is not a Separate Platform." Exciting possibilities, making our lives as app developers both more interesting and complicated. One barrier is that mobile is still seen ... [More]

Future Social. A We Are Social SlideShare on digital developments shaping the future of marketing in social media. Topics discussed include developments in Mobile Social, Baked-in Social, Curation and Funneling, Social "Nicheworks," and Influenc... [More]