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Joining Intuit (the next gen PaaS)
--Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my le...
Joining Intuit
--Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pu...
The Great Bungee Jump
--Well, the great Bungee Jump has come. Martin Plaehn, CEO of Bungee Labs has shared the news of the company the letting go of 15 regular employees a...
How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)
--Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP...
I Am a Strange Loop
--About 10 years ago a friend gave to me a book as gift. We were sitting on the deck of a canal boat on a Friday late afternoon set for a weekend of ...
Join me at Web 2.0 Expo New York - Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0
--I'll be taking part in one of the Cloud computing panels at Web 2.0 Expo New York this September, details below. If you want to meet up, let me kno...
Bookmarks:
Welcome to Beta
Abhay Parasnis, General Manager for Live Mesh blogged...i need to read this...
Automated testing and you, self-help for the Flex developer: Part 1
unit testing using the Fluint (Flex Unit and Integration) framework, which is an opensource project hosted at http://fluint.googlecode.com.
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Billions of VC Dollars in Boston
over the past year or so, several Boston firms have raised over $2 Billion in venture capital. While the financial markets on Wall Street are in a panic, the venture capital community in Boston is strong, with billions of dollars to invest in innovative startups.
Activity-Centered Design
A good read, but I'm really trying to pick apart the different between task-oriented UI design (TOD) and Activity-Centered Design (ACD). I suppose you could sum up the central point of this article is that all tasks must map to the central activity(ies). TOD >> ACD.
Adobe: Flex in a Week video training
Learn Flex in one week by going through this video training course. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order that they are listed. If you run into problems and have questions, you can ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum.
Intuit Partner Platform Opens to Developers
The Intuit Partner Platform not only gives developers the opportunity to build Web-based applications, but successful SaaS businesses by taking the complexity out of managing infrastructure, hosting, user management, integration and billing. Now developers can focus on developing innovative on-demand software solutions that solve unique and important problems for the four million small and mid-market businesses across the U.S. that use QuickBooks and the 25 million employees that work in those companies.
Alex's Network
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James Governor (mutual) friend, want-to-meet |
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paul mooney (mutual) friend |
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Dion Hinchcliffe friend, fan, want-to-meet |
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Joshua Schachter fan |
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Clay Shirky fan |
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Tim O'Reilly fan |
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Toby Segaran fan |
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Brady Forrest (mutual) friend |
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