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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
One of my favorite topics in agile and iterative development is pair programming.The question is can we make it happen more and do we want to try it more? I've typically seen it on the smaller and more isolated projects. It's a fascinating concept and the research, while minimal that ...
Tags: Agile, Education, pair programming, research, University of North Carolina
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...
Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Cloud computing, google, IBM, Microsoft, Skynet, Terminator
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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The zemanta wordpress plug-in rocks. It looks at what you are typing and suggest images, urls, related articles and tags.Through the Zemanta API, it will also automatically recommend RDF to go along with your text. Very cool. Sure does writing posts a lot faster.
Tags: Blog, Flickr, Plug-in, Weblogs, WordPress, Zemanta
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
When mainstream media starts talking about SemanticWeb, one can infer that it is not just another buzz within research labs. Recently the magazine The Economist, and BBC online covered this topic. Early this month Thomson-Reuters announced a service that will help in Semantic Markup.
SemanticWeb Primer
The term Semantic Web was ...
Tags: CMS, microformats, RDF, RDFa, semantic web, web 3.0
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...
Tags: Browsers, Chrome, google, IE, Microsoft, WebKit
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
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We just announced a new offering with our social-media partner Pluck and their product code-named AdLife. AdLife will inject social media features like customer comments and user-generated content into digital advertisements such as banner ads or micro sites - in effect, turning mainstream ads ...
Tags: AJAX, flash, Internet marketing, Organic search, search engine optimization, seo, silverlight, software as a service, Web banner, Web search engine, Yahoo
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another ...
Tags: Cuil, google, privacy, Search Engines
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Recently, the Yahoo UI blog recognized Fred Welterlin and team's outstanding work on the Pulte Home's new site. The post talks about the Yahoo UI components used and how we made the Javascript Library choice. This is typically a challenge for us given the great selection of libraries out there. ...
Tags: AJAX, Fred Welterlin, Javascript, Pulte Homes, Yahoo UI, YUI
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
You may be used to typing in top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net or .edu when heading to websites, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to change that with a decision to open new TLDs for registration, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.Under the new ...
Tags: ICANN, TLDs, Top level domains
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
It's pretty interesting how the press and our clients continue to find our internal knowledge management wiki to be interesting. Here Infoworld captures some thoughts from Shiv Singh on why we built the wiki. It's all about bringing some of the innovations from the consumer facing world into Enterprises. Learning ...
Tags: Infoworld, mediawiki, php, Shiv Singh, wikipedia
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