Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional writer. It's still something I aspire to, but I get just as many creative kicks out of building software - and the pleasure is even greater when, just occasionally, I get to combine the two. I've tried
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PandoDaily reports that Yahoo! has sold half its stake in Alibaba for $4.5 billion. Their take is that Yahoo! needs one or two big products to turn the company around, and that Marissa Mayer should look to successful large acquisitions like PayPal and YouTube. I agree. And I can&
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It's been a slow progression. First, I moved from Eclipse, for years my Integrated Development Environment of choice, to NetBeans, which I've been using for the last year or so. It's faster, leaner, and less prone to bringing down my computer for no readily
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Tim Berners-Lee has an article in December’s Scientific American about the future of the web. It serves, in many ways, as a list of baselines - things that should be obvious to anyone who’s worked with the web for any real length of time. He argues for net
The Christmas period is traditionally when I take a step back and consider what I’m going to do over the next year. For me, it’s a time for family, for quiet reflection and for evaluation. What have I done well? What will I do better next year? During
The emerging news out of WordCamp 2009 in San Francisco is that WordPress and its Multi User cousin are to merge into one product (further discussion). This makes a ton of sense, and makes it even easier to create a community of blogs. I’m looking forward to this – I