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The Kindle is ready for programmers

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Amazon. I recently received a Kindle as a gift and substituted my ebook reader with it. In this article I talk about...

14 replies - 25534 views - 05/31/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Daily Dose: LinkedIn Goes Public!

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8...

0 replies - 24159 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Data, Context, Analysis And Meaning

Data, context and analysis has come up a lot lately. I talked about data and context about a month ago when people were arguing about JSON vs. XML. The problem...

0 replies - 5342 views - 01/11/11 by Robert Diana in News

Ideas without action are called dreams

 Did you have some great ideas in 2010? What became of them?  Did you act on them and create something…or are they still just great ideas? Here...

1 replies - 2260 views - 01/06/11 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

You don't have to always stare at a screen

Depending on the particular person, computer monitors cause a certain amount of eye strain after a time period of continuos use. This was especially true for...

4 replies - 8219 views - 10/14/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Man up! (A developer’s responsibility to their team)

Dear Reader, Regular readers know that if I have to answer a question more than once, I usually blog the answer so that I don’t have to answer it...

3 replies - 5256 views - 09/20/10 by Cal Evans in News

What Are You Offering, Complaints or Options?

About a month ago, there was a great call to action on the WorkAwesome blog: What is the best professional advice you ever received? And where did it come...

0 replies - 4743 views - 09/07/10 by Robert Diana in News

The fear tax

Seth Godin recently wrote a post about 'the fear tax' which he describes as a 'tax' that we pay when we do something in order to try and calm our fear...

2 replies - 4211 views - 08/27/10 by Mark Needham in News

People are willing to work for less

Last week, I wrote a post about my experience with oDesk. The purpose of the post was to share my experience, so other entrepreneurs can learn from it,...

2 replies - 6887 views - 08/23/10 by Zviki Cohen in News

Hiring misses: When we turn someone down for the wrong reasons

Filtering through hundreds of resumes can be a daunting task. Some people use recruiting agencies to help them filter the obvious misses, some...

5 replies - 7447 views - 06/08/10 by Dawn Cannan in News

The Psychology of Programmers

For last couple of days I was thinking there must are some fundamental differences in how programmers think, act, and work as against to other professionals or...

12 replies - 20369 views - 05/26/10 by Asif Shahzad Ch. in Articles

Technology Adoption and the "No"-gates

Let's say you've found some new, good way to do business.JSON, for example. Or Agile Methods in general. Or TDD specifically. Or use of an ORM. You...

2 replies - 7483 views - 05/20/10 by Steven Lott in News

Case Study: How OSS Helped One Startup Beat Larger Companies

Many companies are still not comfortable with using a software solution unless they are paying for it.  However, tech companies that use mainly Open Source...

0 replies - 14718 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees

IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report.  The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US,...

0 replies - 20101 views - 03/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun   Just a few months short of his 10th anniversary, Simon Phipps is retiring from Oracle (formerly Sun) according to his blog. ...

0 replies - 16871 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose