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RIAs and Content Management

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Forrester recently published a report on Rich Internet Applications and Content Management. The report covers some of the key topics in this area such as organic Search Engine Optimization, changes in build and release management, and how to change Content Management to better support RIA. The content for the report ...

Share Google Spreadsheets via Google Gadgets

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This is kind of neat, now you can share parts of your collaborative spreadsheets via a Google Gadgets. So, it can show up on your iGoogle page and other places. Neat way to pull folks into looking at your exciting number crunching;). Google also launched spreadsheet notifications. Tools lik eZoho ...

highscalability.com looking under the covers..

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A very cool site that gives us a look under the covers at what some of the super high-volume sites out there are doing to get their content and functionality to people. It's amazing to see how some of the highest volume sites out there leverage open source so effectively. ...

“Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think”

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

"Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think" is yet-another-excellent book put out by O'Reilly Books. It contains 33 essays written by respected members of the Software Development community and each essay is a variation on the theme of how we define "Beautiful Code". The range of topics is vast ...

FCC Closes 700MHz Auction at $19.6B

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Bidding in the FCC's 700MHz auction closed March 18, 2008, after the auction raised a record $19.6 billion over 261 bidding rounds. The winners of the spectrum have not been disclosed as yet by the Federal Communications Commission.The results of this single spectrum auction surpass the $19.1 billion combined total raised ...

The Tools Google Uses Internally

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

A web seminar Google held at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explaining the many tools he’s using: from the Google intranet MOMA, the Google ...

Better!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I just finished a book I found hard to put down, Better, by Atul Gawande. Atul is a surgeon in Boston who writes for the New Yorker and has published a couple of books. I love his essays and thoroughly enjoyed his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an ...

Introducing the new FolderShare!

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Yesterday, the Windows Live team released a new version of Foldershare along with their new website. New features added are: • A new website designed to make managing your FolderShare libraries and computers even easier. • A new FolderShare with a better setup, a better system tray menu, and better performance on Windows ...

Introducing Grails

Friday, March 7th, 2008

It was Tim Bray, who in his predictions for 2008 mentioned that “Rails will continue to grow at a dizzying speed, and Ruby will in consequence inevitably become one of the top two or three strategic choices for software developers”. Indeed, in my eyes the rails paradigm which blends well-known ...

Fading the Tech/Creative Line

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The common mentality with respect to creative and technology process integration involves a relatively solid line that separates the two disciplines and work streams. Creatives do their concepting, draw up wireframes, create visual assets, and then toss them over the line. Technologists pick these up, create the front-end ...