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Entries from April 2006

Toronto Watermain Break

April 27th, 2006 · No Comments

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 […]

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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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