MSFT takeover YHOO? Irrelevant?
It’s my industry, so my ears perked up today. It appears that Microsoft is about to try to acquire Yahoo, and they’ve sent a letter that essentially leaves the door open for a hostile takeover. On that...
View Article37signals as an Indirect Competitor to Google
Note: This was originally part of the lead-in article for this Video Interview with Jason Fried. I wrote it, and then decided it was too much copy for an intro. 37signals is not Google When you walk...
View ArticleComcast: Your Reminder Question Has Expired
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View ArticleFree Books Build an Audience, Just ask the Founder of SAS
From today’s NYTimes article on SAS and the challenges it faces from IBM here is an interesting scene. Goodnight built an audience sending free books. Granted, this was before the advent of electronic...
View ArticleTop 10 Phrases at Work: November 19, 2012
This is a list assembled from a scientific poll of 2 million “knowledge workers” conducted via the Information Super Highway. On November 19, 2012, these were the top 10 phrases uttered in a business...
View ArticleFire Your Designer and Choose One: Bootstrap or Foundation (…unless you...
Every time someone brings up Twitter’s Bootstrap or the Foundation library by Zurb there is always bound to be a food fight over how using CSS and Javascript libraries “dilute a web site’s brand”....
View ArticleThe 7 Rules of Software Development
I hate simplistic blogs like “The 10 Rules of XYZ”, but who am I to buck the trend? Why the picture? Every time I read one of these simple lists of edicts it strikes as being very “papal”. Here I’ve...
View ArticleThe Fall Guy (or Representing Open Source in the Business)
The problem with being the developer who can write at an open source company is that you end up being enlisted into the whole “Please explain how open source works” discussion when the company hires...
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