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Java is Like Senator Harry Reid: Meh, but Alternatives are Worse
photo credit: Center forAmerican Progress Action Fund Harry Reid hung on to beat Sharron Angle this past election day. It wasn’t that the voters of Nevada loved him, it was just that the other...
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Minescape and the Indie Software Phenomenon
photo credit: mbiebusch I first learned about the indie video game Minecraft when Paypal froze the developers account with 600,000 Euros in it. The game, a kind of retro low res but addicting game has...
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Breaking: Email is Dying
photo credit: geoftheref OK, so maybe it isn’t really news. But Robert Cringley has eulogized email quite nicely. As someone who still remembers the thrill of sending his first email via BITNET, I...
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HTML5 Gets a New Logo
That’s all we needed, really, a new logo. Does anyone else feel the need to have this stitched onto a leotard with a cape?
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Browser Wars: What's IE's Real Market Share?
photo credit: 3liz4 Depending on who you ask, IE’s market share hovers either just above or just below 50%. While other browsers have made inroads, it’s still the big dog on the block. If you look at...
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Startup Suicide — Knowing When You’ve Cut Your Own Throat
photo credit: mel_rowling Steve Blank writes a thought provoking article about the folly of the complete software rewrite. He envisions a scenario where an agile team builds a product and that product...
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Carnegie Mellon Eliminates OO from Undergrad Curriculum
We are big believers in hiring fresh graduates into our apprenticeship program. Get good people young and mentor them into outstanding agile developers. We recruit graduates nationwide, but we do see...
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Between Problem and Solution, There Falls the Product
photo credit: Daquella manera I’m always on the search for examples that illustrate the difference between problem and solution in product design. Recently, I’ve found a really sweet one. In our...
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The Big Hill that Microsoft “Superphones” and Tablets Will Have to Climb
photo credit: codepo8 RIM is putting the remaining stock of it’s BlackBerry Playbooks on clearance for $299. This is after HP engaged in a rummage sale of both it’s new and refurbished WebOS tablets....
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Your Logo Is Making Me Sick
Consider this the opening volley in our campaign for Lean Branding, the argument that branding has to follow the same course as customer and product development. More on this later. First a good...
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