Mark Richman provides expert advice, strategy, and software solutions to businesses worldwide. His clients range from the Fortune 500 to small businesses to startups seeking dramatic results. Mark creates and improves business-critical web applications, increasing productivity and maximizing profits.

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Mercifully, Website Logins Will Vanish in the Internet Future

I was quoted today in the following article in the New Times Broward-Palm Beach:
With the spread of cloud computing, social networking, and client-based technologies, fewer and fewer of our computing tasks are taking place on our personal computers. More of them are going online — into the cloud. We have more usernames [...]

Wireframing Over the Shoulder

In the process of creating Obox Signature Series Themes, David had to create a shopping cart system (custom built… why? we dont know), so that involved a design.
But before David could design it, he had to visualise this beast in his head and get it onto paper. So since he loves wireframing so much, and [...]

Letter to Obama From a 4th Grade Teacher

This letter you are about to read was written by a 4th grade teacher this past week. She even gave the world her telephone and fax numbers. We are in dire need of more true American citizens who are proud of OUR United States of America. WAKE UP AMERICA . . . please . . [...]

Interacting with SOAP based web services from Cocoa

SOAP based web services and Cocoa have never been good friends, and although REST based webservices are fortunately today’s standard there are still tons of SOAP-based ones out there. What has always been missing in Cocoa is high level support for interacting with SOAP-based webservices. Here I describe one way in which you can build [...]

Evolution of Mac OS X – Apple’s Jordan Hubbard

Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA ‘08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year’s conference invited Apple’s Jordan Hubbard to speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. While [...]