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What Are Your Tech New Year Resolutions?

Every year I try to do a Tech New Year Resolutions. These are the things that I want to do in my professional life.
Learn Flex 3
This was a goal for last year but didn’t seem to pan out. Now that AIR and Flex are getting a lot of momentum it is a good time to [...]

Phone support for your web-based products – Yes or No?

I read a lot of blog posts (no thanks in part to Google Reader) and I came across a post by good ole’ 37Signals titled “Why would you want to call me?“. For you insouciant types it goes on to talk about why they don’t do phone support on their products because it is very [...]

Web surfing at work not so bad, study says.

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they’re supposed to be working.

Installing filters to block access to Web sites and e-mail services could backfire, the study says.

A new study attempts to shatter perceptions that these Web surfers are just slackers trying to avoid work.
In [...]

Win a $500 goodie bag from Market Leverage

Mr Internet Marketing John Chow has a contest up on this blog. He is giving away a goodie bag complete with a $200 amex card, Flip Camera and a USB Pen, all from Market Leverage. Head on over and submit a comment to enter!

Creative Trade Show Booth – FreshBooks.com

I have been using freshbooks for a couple of years now to do billing for my clients. It is a simple, very professional way to do invoicing.
Well they decided to go to the HOW design conference and do a trade show booth. Instead of spending thousands of dollars on a fancy booth they did the [...]

Gawker Media Offices – I Spy?

Ever wondered what Gawker’s office look like?
Now we know!
Can you spy Blakeley?

Win a 2 Gig USB Pen

John Chow is giving away a really awesome looking 2 Gig USB Pen. To sign up for the contest all you have to do is leave a comment. It’s the easiest contest EVER!

Twitter giving up on Ruby on Rails?

Techcrunch seems to think so…
Hmm, Seems like web 2.0’s “Gem” of a framework may not be all that the zealots what you to think it is.
[Via TechnologyThree]

What does Scrum look like to you?

We have been using what we called “Scrum” for a couple of years now and I am curious as to how other organizations implement it. For us it is basically a daily staff meeting that lasts 10 minutes and you say what you did the previous 24 hours and what you are doing in the [...]

Signal Vs Noise: Why I love working with family people

SvN just did a post called: Why I love working with family people
I wrote this as a comment but I thought i would post it here:
I am 29 with a wife and 3 kids and do web development and work at home. I started out as a 20 year old that would work for [...]

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