Category: General
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Startup School 2008 – Friday
I’m splitting my post about my trip to Startup School this past weekend into two posts, as there is too much to put in one post. On Friday afternoon, my wife drove me to the airport, where I barely caught my Virgin America flight to San Francisco. This was my first flight on Virgin America,…
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Heading to StartupSchool
In a couple of hours I’ll be headed to the airport to catch my flight to San Francisco. It’s going to be a busy weekend, but I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll blog about it as I can. If you’re down there shoot me an e-mail.
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Physical Workspace
My physical work area is a key component of my productivity and happiness. One of the advantages of working remotely is that you can really work anywhere, as long as you have internet access and cell phone reception. I try to work about one day a week from a coffee house with some friends to…
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Y Combinator Startup School
I have been accepted to the 2008 Y Combinator Startup School. This is a one day event at Stanford University for tech startup focused individuals. There are a number of speakers including Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and DHH (Ruby on Rails), and many others. While the listening to what the speakers have to say should be…
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Why I Host My Own Websites, Mail, Files, etc…
I read several “Web Worker” blogs, tech blogs, productivity blogs, etc… Almost all of them have touted the virtues of using something like Google Enterprise, GMail, Basecamp, etc… instead of hosting your own site or your own mail or whatever it is. I agree, that if you lack the skillset to easily manage those things…
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Should Developers Manage Copyright Like Photographers Do?
While fighting the forces pulling me out of bed this morning, I had an idea: would everyone benefit if copyright on source code was managed more like copyright on photographs? I think everyone would win, and no one would lose. Iād like to hear your thoughts as well. I am a Java developer/architect by day,…