September 2011
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destroy/dstorey: The makeup of the Open Web stack →
dstorey: The Open Web has never had as many capabilities as it has today. We’re seeing an explosion in new or updated specifications, and prototype and stable implementations to go with them. This blog post will look back as the platform we have had available (Called Open Web 0 here) and then looks forward…
Sep 30th
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Full Fucking Service: Reckless web development... →
Shinny vs Progressive Enhancement: Thanks for teaching the difference.  fullfuckingservice: Or, how content is suffering because of lazy people who don’t understand that a strong web relies on addressable content with access to all. Reckless web development practices are encouraging idiots and prolonging the cycle of ignorance in front-end development and its associated industries.…
Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
Billion dollar brains →
Meet the new generation of under 30 something tech CEOs. Alexa Andrzejewski - 27 - CEO of: Foodspotting, launched 2010, 1 million app downloads Sam Altman - 26 - CEO of: Loopt, launched 2005, 5 million-plus users Trip Adler -27 - CEO of: Scribd, launched March 2007, 75 million monthly users Jessica Mah - 21 - CEO of: inDinero, launched July 2010, 15,000 businesses Brian Chesky - 30 - CEO...
Sep 26th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 24th
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jessverr: Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
Sep 23rd
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New Internet architecture called Named Data... →
Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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.NET vs Google web dev  →
Stephen Smith, SAGE Software Chief Software Architect gave a talk to GTUG Seattle on architecting business applications with Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Key takeaway is Web development cadence with GWT over .NET from his blog: Moving to GWT 2.1 One of the good things about moving to Web development is how fast things change. When we developed using Visual Studio for Microsoft Windows, there would...
Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 18th
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TFS is destroying your development capacity →
Vertical integration is another word for “lock in”
Sep 17th
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The to and fro: Don't worry about lawsuits, worry... →
Groking this post howardtharp: Have a bias towards action not merely eliminating risk. In an ideal world, both parties will have this bias. Especially in this example, the little guy is taking more of the risk. pudjam666: So, It was 1998 and the dot-com boom was in full effect. I was making websites as a 22 year old…
Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 13th
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“Some are saying it was the wave of the future—a new “authenticity” that CEOs...”
– This Huge Brouhaha About Carol Bartz’s “I Got Fired” Email Is Absurd—It Was A Breath Of Fresh Air (via abnerg)
Sep 12th
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Sep 11th
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The to and fro: Google App Engine price changes... →
howardtharp: Thank you nice Tumblr, for lucidly explaining the Google App Engine price changes. “The old pricing model charged for the wrong thing. The overwhelming vast majority of web applications use very little CPU; processes spend most of their time blocked waiting for I/O (datastore fetches, url…
Sep 10th
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Sep 9th
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The to and fro: Tech defies labor market, let's... →
Yes. Incumbents have strangled the pulse of social innovation out of enterprise software by organizing around the industry, not the customer (Microsoft vs Amazon) howardtharp: Tech defies the labor market. I never know quite how to bring up this disconnect without sounding insensitive towards those looking for work. There is a giant software developer shortage. Not only that, there is a giant...
Sep 8th
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Sep 7th
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Kenandy Raises $10.5M for Cloud-Based “social... →
In the past two decades, manufacturing has moved from a vertical operation — where divisions within the same company all interact to build something — to a horizontal one, where different companies all work together to produce a product. But the software used to manage all of this hasn’t been adapted to deal with the new structure.
Sep 6th
“Same should flow for Master Product Development Coachs… Apparently...”
– One Way To Become A Master Coach « Joseph Lightfoot (via lwu)
Sep 5th
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Why Tumblr Is (Still) Kicking Posterous's Ass →
To put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.
Sep 4th
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Sep 3rd
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David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve Likewise: Device architecture helps software evolve…
Sep 2nd
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Sep 1st
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