You might not believe it, but while two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water, only 3% of it actually is drinkable. This means that roughly 1 billion people are unable to find the clean drinking water they need to survive. When you add inadequate sanitation to the equation, the number of people put at risk more than doubles. This culminates in the heartbreaking stat that over 3 million people die yearly from water-related diseases.
Author: Rob Tiffany
Submarine Warriors: The Enemy Beneath is now Available in Paperback on Amazon
I’m thrilled to announce my exciting new underwater adventure #novel for middle-grade and young adult readers is now available in paperback!
Submarine Warriors > The Enemy Beneath is available on the Kindle
The first book in my new middle-grade, adventure series takes what you love most about characters like Hermione Granger, Percy Jackson, and Harry Potter and plunges them into the dangerous underwater world of ‘The Hunt for Red October’ and ‘Crimson Tide.’
Writing Mobile Java Apps on the Compaq iPAQ
Here’s a blast from the past when I wrote the cover story for Java Developer’s Journal … Writing Mobile Java Apps on the Compaq iPAQRead more
How Not to Present a Session at a Techical Conference
Prior to the Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) back in 2007, my teammates Loke Uei Tan, Mike Hall, James Pratt, Derek Snyder and I made a movie that illustrates presentation worst practices…
Happy 20th Birthday Visual Basic :: VB Under the Sea
In what turned out to be the most important decision I’ve ever made in my computing career, I bought that copy of VB and proceeded to teach myself how to use it.
Mobile Web Facts and Best Practices
<what is the mobile web? /> It’s growing faster than the desktop web Faster growth than … Mobile Web Facts and Best PracticesRead more
Ray Ozzie sees the Dawn of a New Day for Microsoft
Five years after Ray Ozzie penned The Internet Services Disruption, he reflects on Microsoft’s move to … Ray Ozzie sees the Dawn of a New Day for MicrosoftRead more
comScore Reports May 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
Ranking the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers
Walking to Omaha Beach
I caught a train from Paris to Bayeux at Gare Saint-Lazare with only four minutes to … Walking to Omaha BeachRead more