Adam Breckler

internet professional

Month: October, 2009

Measurability = Accountability

Hypothesis: In organizations where performance can be directly measured, compensation approaches the fair market value of the output generated from such performance.

Case 1: Professional Athletes
The general consensus among sports fans is that professional athletes appear grossly overpaid. How can one player truly be worth the $20 million dollars a year that their team is [...]

Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter

Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)
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Tutorial: Setting up Wordpress to communicate with Flash via XML

This following bit of code should get you up and running with a simple way of sharing data from your wordpress blog with a flash object. Creating the XML file is a bit of a hastle, since you can’t output XML directly from a wordpress template file to flash. Instead you have to [...]

Behavioral Modification: The Fun Theory, Volkswagen Ad Campaign