“I’m Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete” is a book about the people and places that make up a work place revolution. From a single space in San Francisco at the beginning of 2006, coworking has grown to over 70 spaces worldwide at the end of 2008, with more appearing almost daily. Read the book and you’ll see why so many talented workers have turned their backs to the office and said, “I’m outta here!”
An InnovationCamp is an ad hoc gathering of people who want to learn about innovation by doing rather than listening. Andrew Jones, Julie Gomoll, and I hosted the first ever InnovationCamp, in Austin in the summer of 2008.
We were joined by at least 109 attendees from a diverse pool of independents, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, artists, writers, academics, businesses, startups, non-profits, the coworking community… This wasn’t just technology and cool product ideas (although that was there too). It was about innovation as a tool to create value, to improve our lives, to improve our community, and to serve the needs of our world. Read more »
From 1996 until 2002, I wrote for JavaWorld. JavaWorld was one of the first online technical publications without a corresponding print version. Its completely electronic format afforded great flexibility in planninng and scheduling and interactivity in content–things we take for granted today. In 1996, it was all very cool. I wrote a regular monthly column called “How-to Java”–over 60 articles in all. Read more »
On December 7, 1999, I was awarded Patent #5999967 for “Electronic mail filtering by electronic stamp”. I filed the patent myself on August 17, 1997. The patent arose from the simple realization that be most effective way to choke-off spam is remove its economic advantage.
Less than one year after Sun released version 1.0 of the JDK (1995), I coauthored a book (1996) on the Java Language API. At the time, “Java” consisted of java.lang, java.io, java.util, java.net, java.awt, and java.applet. I wrote chapters on networking, strings, several of the util classes, and parts of the Java language itself. Yes, I did know Java was going to be a very big hit–I’d been using C++ for years.