20 July 2010, 12:27 am « Viewed 36 times
Check out the cover on the Summer 2010 edition of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly: I saw it at my local Barnes & Noble bookstore and had to buy it for its complete awesomeness. The one thing 2600 has, every issue, is cool cover art. I don’t know the exact system to which these tape cartridges [...]
16 June 2010, 5:05 pm « Viewed 67 times
The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]
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Tagged API, Best Practices, Business Practices, Client Relationships, Culture and Society, Elegance, Excel, GiveCamp, Google, HTML, Jim O'Neil, Microsoft, MSDN, Music, Quickbooks, REST, Security, SOAP, VBA, Visual Basic, Web Services, XML, XSLT
28 May 2010, 5:08 pm « Viewed 35 times
Just a short while ago, my Facebook Wall had this series of notes from The Economist: What’s remarkable in this exchange is the degree of openness involved and the ability to accept a contrary opinion without changing their course of action. In short, it’s how social media is supposed to work; and it’s evidence of [...]
26 May 2010, 9:34 pm « Viewed 52 times
I’m a late-blooming gleek. But I’ve caught “Glee” fever something awful — thanks, in little to no part, to the Fox network. For those not initiated, “Glee” is a musical comedy series that, in the words of the New York Daily News, “dresses like ‘High School Musical’ and has the heart of ‘Porky’s.’” I’d add [...]
13 May 2010, 8:49 pm « Viewed 41 times
One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]
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Tagged AJAX, ASP.NET, Best Practices, Business Practices, Client Relationships, crowdsourcing, CSS, Culture and Society, Database, Dot Net, Facebook, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Microsoft, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, MSDN, MySQL, PHP, politics, Social Media, SQL, Transact-SQL, VB.NET, VBA, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, XML
11 May 2010, 10:54 pm « Viewed 9 times
The New York Times’ Bits blog has a post today in which chief Facebook lobbyist Elliot Schrage answers reader questions. For a lawyer — especially a lawyer facing a Bonfire of the Vanities-worthy media frenzy, a meddling Congress, watchdog groups barking at his door and an inchoate Intifada by his longest-standing and most important partner [...]
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Tagged Best Practices, blogging, Business Practices, Culture and Society, Facebook, Facebook API, Login, MySpace, politics, Privacy, Security, Social Media, Twitter
