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Been Quoted In CIO Update On Xoom Tablets
In the article 10 Reasons To Buy Xoom (And 2 Not To) as compared to an iPad, I talk about the walled garden aspect of the iPad. Xoom is built to be hacked to serve enterprises’ specific needs. Within...
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Passing On Founder’s Institute
As mentioned previously, I have been considering joining Founder’s Institute. I was accepted, but I will not be attending. Below the fold are the two primary reasons why, one old and one new. Payment...
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RE’s 2nd Pivot
Since Mike has moved on and Scott and I have been looking for a replacement, we have also been closely evaluating our current business and technical model. At this time, we no longer believe it to be...
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It’s Been 7 Startups
When people ask me if Resume Everywhere is my first startup, they are surprised at the answer. Not the fact that I’ve done startups before; rather, that RE is my seventh. Yes, really — 7. Here’s the...
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How Resumes Are Stored
If you are a job seeker and you go to most job boards these days, you will be asked to do one of three things: Enter your resume information section by section Upload a file containing your resume Open...
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Six Priorities Of Traditional Software Development
When designing and developing a traditional software system (i.e. one that will be installed on an end user’s system, rather than running in the cloud), there are several design goals for a successful...
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Idea Factory — Smartphone Cloud Recording
The other day, I saw a news release from the US Department of State about their panic button app intended for pro-democracy protesters in foreign governments to be able to wipe the contacts from their...
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Returning To My First Love
Not literally — I’m still quite happily married. I started playing drums when I was six years old. My older brother begged and begged and begged our parents for a drum set and he finally got one that...
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Reason #1453 Why I Don’t Like Apple’s Mobile Platform
I’ve said this many times before (and it looks like I’ll be saying it again) — Apple’s iOS platform is a walled garden. Just like Facebook now and AOL before it, you can only play in the garden if you...
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A Quandry With LinkedIn
So, I generally believe the people with which you connect on LinkedIn should be limited to people you know, work with and (usually) respect. LI is becoming more and more established as a means of...
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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail
Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. A while back, one of the original people helping get RE off the ground left to pursue other options (an amicable split, which is always...
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Tutorial Day At #RailsConf
Yesterday, Scott and I went up to Charm City to sit in on tutorial day of RailsConf 2011. It was a good enough day. As I don’t know Rails — at all — I went to the Rails for Idiots track. Otherwise...
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Business Cards Aren’t Dead Yet
Paper business cards still beat technological alternatives.
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Day 0 At #GlueCon
Tuesday was sort of a pre-day for GlueCon. I flew out a day early both to try beating jet lag and to learn a bit more from the conference than I otherwise might. Travel Fun I flew on Southwest because,...
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Idea Factory — Secure Garbage Collection
It’s a fact of law that when you put your garbage on the street, anyone can paw through it to their heart’s content. This can be a problem for two groups of people — celebrities and criminals. General...
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Been Away For A While
Things over at RE are heating up. In fact, we’re probably going to be doing a soft launch (read here: an early alpha to select people) in the next week or so. If you’re interested in joining the list,...
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MapR, HDFS and Forking Code
I was in the exhibition hall of StrataConf talking with the good folks at MapR. During our conversation, the MapR rep said “we’ve rewritten HDFS to optimize it and make it better”. The rest of our...
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Speaking At BigDataCamp DC During Fose Tomorrow
Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a lightening talk at the BigDataCamp unconference during Fose. My talk will be an overview of NoSQL technologies, their respective pluses and minuses, as well as where they fit...
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Gender
Building off the time and names lists, here are a few erroneous assumptions about gender. All of these I experienced through both coding and working with HR systems in the US government, several...
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Oracle Loses In Court Again. And That’s A Good Thing.
Following Oracle’s utter washout with the Google case (and you really should be reading Eric Raymond on Oracle/Android if you weren’t already), Oracle is on the losing end of a EU decision on the...
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