Waterboy points out: Toronto Star has a picture to go with the story. Very cool for the star to use Google maps to show a location for the story. That’s a pretty nice touch but it’s static, couldn’t they link to the proper Google map? What is more interesting is that The Star is likely […]
Entries from April 2006
Toronto Watermain Break
April 27th, 2006 · No Comments
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Mark Skapinker of Brightspark Starts Blogging
April 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Mark Skapinker of Brightspark (a Canadian seed stage software venture fund) has started blogging this month. He already has a couple excellent blog posts: To VC or not to VC? What’s so great about Canadian software developers, anyway? Web 2.0. It may be 2.0 but it's not new Check them out.
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Debugging Code Under Stress
April 10th, 2006 · No Comments
I think Scott Johnson has this just about right: Here’s a simple way to know if you’ve got a good architecture – its what I call (apologize for swearing: The Fuck Factor. Listen to yourself work as you debug code under stress. The quality of your architecture can be determined as a mathematical operation (seriously) […]
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Jon Udell Screencast on Microsoft Atlas
April 8th, 2006 · No Comments
An excellent screencast on Microsoft Atlas (Microsoft's AJAX framework) by Jon Udell and Shanku Niyogi. Jon's blog post about it is here. Atlas actually looks pretty promising for the .NET folks.
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Boot Camp – Macs Do Windows Too
April 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Finally Apple starting to wake up a little bit. They just released Boot Camp which will allow one to run Windows XP on an Intel based MAC. I wrote “wake up a little bit” because what I've been saying for years is that they really just need to go all the way and allow OSX […]
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