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In addition to the daily delight of driving our new consulting/mobile app venture, DreamTimeStudioZ , forward, I am exploring other software-related but not software-producing consulting opportunities. To prepare for this new adventure, a full-on, comprehensive...
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Episode #1 of the OnPC (On-Person-Computer) Developer's Podcast is now live at http://onpcdev.com If you develop for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, webOS and more, it's what's hot, what's new and what's...
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Ok, want to follow on Twitter? http://www.twitter.com/onpcdev Want to comment about OnPC Development? Use #onpc and/or #onpcdev hashtags....
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As readers of this blog probably already know, I was one of the very, very early podcasters back in 2006. I've been itching to get going on a new podcast and just found my inspiration! I recently read an interesting article on CNNMoney.com entitled...
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Gnomedex 10 , the next, and perhaps final, annual gathering of the facinating and interesting, hosted by fellow ex-Iowan Chris Pirillo , starts tomorrow (August 19th) here in Seattle. I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends and making...
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I am very, very proud to say that my team at Microsoft shipped Feature Builder 1.0 - a Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 which enables developers to create Visual Studio Extensions which incorporate templates, guidance and tools. This "1.0"...
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It’s been nearly a year since I posted this: “ Since February, I … have [started] spending my time working more closely with the Visual Studio team and am looking forward to seeing what comes from that collaboration. ” Today,...
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If you are a startup I think you'd find www.onstartups.com very worth your time. They have a post relating most startup plans to those of the South Park "Underpants Gnomes" who's business plan is: Steal Underpants ? Make Profit Always...
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Just ran into BrowserMob a cloud-based load testing tool based on Firefox and Amazon EC2 . It allows you to throw hundreds or thousands of "virtual users" at your web site simultaneously. Unlike most load testing tools however, it uses actual...
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Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch today wrote a piece entitled " Operating Systems Don't Matter ". As I wrote in the comments to that post, I was a partcipant in a concrete example of his thesis: Digital Research, Inc. DRI wrote and distributed...
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It was 30 years ago today that I started, in earnest, to build Pascal/MT [wikipedia link], the first source-code-to-binary Pascal compiler. In those days one could either use UCSD Pascal (a P-code compiler/interpreter) or Pascal/Z which compiled to Z80...
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The nice folks at Seattle 2.0 webcast the Cloudcamp sessions . It was a great day with brilliant people and awesome energy. Recorded versions should be available soon....
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Just signed up for Cloud Camp Seattle which is tomorrow Feb 28. There are 34 free tickets left and it looks like it's going to be very interesting. “CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas....
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Tomorrow, I am going to start podcasting and blogging regularly again. My day job (at Microsoft) has been consuming every spare cycle that I didn't need to eat and/or live but many things are converging which have inspired me to, once again, be attentive...
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I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either...
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Over on The Positivity Blog , Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame . Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details):...
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Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: " Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about...
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Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash . Summary: Inbox Zero - www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email...
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Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 Expo this week, finally enabled me to figure out where to get the time to create podcasts, eBooks, etc.... STOP WATCHING TELEVISION (or at least sitcoms)... Your thoughts/comments? What do you to to make time to create...
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At the Web 2.0 Expo this week. Interesting conversations with people who are at the forefront of moving the world to (and from) the web. Hanging in the blogger's lounge the energy is amazingly high (and this is during the keynotes!) Good connectivity,...
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The folks over at GET WISDOM! have a blog post today entitled How To Create Your Own E-book in 3 Days . Day 1: Brainstorm about something you'd personally like to improve and go gather information about that and write/compile your content. Day 2: Plan...
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I'm in Las Vegas for the MIX08 conference. Part of what I'm doing here is finally, and I promise that I really mean it this time :), blogging regularly again! So here's the first of many posts this week! To help out, I'm reading Chris...
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Marc Andreesen, the developer behind the original Netscape browser, and now Silicon Valley pundit, wrote a blog post that contains the essence of success in building a company: Build something worthy! His overall post is about the effect of the...
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If you are a Independent Innovator you've got to check out Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart whose motto is: "It’s your money - you keep it". Costs max $20/month....
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Working from "home" is one of the most common options for the independent innovator and now Inc (via Yahoo) has a article that points to a couple of interesting sites: http://www.chiefhomeofficer.com and http://www.workingsolo.com...
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