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I recently finished reading The Phoenix Project, which was a great read. It's a fictional story that teaches DevOps (the intersection of the worlds of software development and application operations), and is actually much more fun to read than you'd expect based on that topic. The
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Below is a recent post from: http://www.halfaker.com/cto-mike-king-discusses-the-agile-framework A Focused and Collaborative Approach Produces Powerful Results for Clients: CTO, Mike King, Discusses the Agile Framework November 01, 2012 As Halfaker and Associates Chief Technology Officer, Mike King’s business growth leadership has focused on delivering tailored technologies
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I had a great time at tonight's TechCocktail DC (http://tech.co/event/tech-cocktails-dc-mixer-startup-showcase#.UBG3E7Se6Ag) -- here's my rundown (as if anyone cared): * ProspectSnap * Speek - Neat idea for telecon's, though I don't see companies buying into this shift * Distil Inc. -
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I was in Chicago last week for CodeAcademy's (.org, not .com) demo day, and I was blown away. CodeAcademy is an intense, 12-week program that teaches web application (Ruby on Rails) and web design skills to people with a wide variety of backgrounds (including many without a technical
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This weekend I experienced the intensity that was Lean Startup Machine DC (#LSMDC). I went with without lots of expectations -- I haven't read The Lean Startup book, I haven't been to any similar events, and I didn't know anyone who had. It turned
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Jason Calacanis blogged earlier this week about the Cult of Amazon Prime, and made some great points. I'm a huge fan of everything Amazon, including Prime and their Kindle e-reader devices. I made a list of why I'm a huge fan of the new Kindle Touch
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Twitter gets a bad rap from people who don't want to read what people ate for lunch. But there are some redeeming qualities for twitter for some people: 1. Twitter is a great way to get targeted news (I like to read about Silicon Valley startup companies, so
technology
Back in June of this year, Steve Jobs made a comment about the iPad and tablet computers and his vision of computing: "PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them… This transformation is going to make some people uneasy. The PC has taken us a
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I'm not even sure what you call it, but I'd like to find a open source or hosted (software as a service) service solution to allow me to create simple web applications, primarily related to simple database and workflow systems. There seem to be several services
technology
Billmonk.com is finally completely dead (to my knowledge). I've enjoyed the free web service since Feb 2006, but after months of random error messages it appears to be complete dead. As I try to recreate my outstanding IOU's, I've been shopping for alternatives
technology
Here is some free software for Windows that I enjoy: * Paint.net - photo editing * CDBurnerXP - burn CD’s and DVD’s * WinDirStat - little app that shows you the size of your folders (very useful if you’re trying to clean out your hard drive) * Crimson Editor -
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So I was thinking to myself in class last night while we were discuss various network security topics that email providers should digitally sign (with public-key encryption) their emails to verify that the emails aren’t being spoofed. I figure, one of the big problems with spam is spammers who