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I have talked in the past about doing one thing and doing it well in the technology space. A mistake I've made many times, and other developers make is trying to do too much when building applications.
You build a system and try to please everyone, by including lots of features, tools, integrations and su...
The other day I talked about my brother Michael was looking for a tech job. He's a .NET programmer with a Computer Science degree, and a working currently.
I told him I would give him advice on how to stand okinlane-productions2he is looking for. I took a look at his resume, then put it down and Googled his name. I just didn't see what I was looking to demonstrate that he was active and p...
Change happens. With technology, change seems to be accelerating, or at least the waves of change seem to come more frequently.
I feel I've developed a certain rhythm fkinlane-productions2es. Part of this rhythm is a regular evaluation of where I stand, a sort of agile career methodology. I'm in one of those evaluation periods right now.
What wave is next?...
My little brother Michael is looking for a job in the tech industry. He asked if he could send his resume my way. I said sure.
I opened his resume and scanned it as I would any other potential hire. It read:
I'm very excited about technology
I have computer science degree
I worked at my school
I worked at Circuit City
I work at a small dev shop in my home town.
Then I went to Google like I do for any othe...
Application Programming Interfaces (API) are a necessity in today's fast paced business community. An API can encourage mobile application, web application, and desktop development by your most passionate users, partners and the public.
Even with all this value many businesses don't have time or resources to dedicate to developing, marketing and managing an API.
I was talking with a friend of mine recently about his job search. We were talking about different ways employers ask you to demonstrate your skills while interviewing. Some make you take tests, some want code examples, and some just expect you to sell yourself.
My number one way to demonstrate my skills is through my blog. It not only is a quick way to demonstrate my skills to prospective employers, it also attracts employers that I do not apply to.kinlane-productions2kinlane-product...
Twitter released a brand new twitter.com today with all kinds of new features. The feature that really stands out for me is now the main twitter.com web site runs off the Twitter API.
The Twitter mobile site and Twitter Iphone and IPad apps all run using the Twitter API, but now the most popu...
Seed funding and startups isn't something I normally write about on my blog. I tend to be more vocal about the technology, than the money.
Through exposure from Audrey and the ReadWriteStart Channel I am paying more attention to this world again. I have plenty of business planning exposure from working at Palo Alt...
Here are Fred Wilson's 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps from the February 2010 Future of Web Apps Miami conference.
You can watch the video and get the full transcript over at Think ...
I am walking through the Box.net OpenBox Developer area tonight. Box.net offers a pretty robust set of API for managing files and content on the box.net platform.
It is a great example of a very robust API. They get you started with:
Introduction to OpenBox Actions
Getting Started Guide for API
Easy Sig-nup
Project Setup Page...
I was happy to see the announcement by Google, that they were open sourcing more of the Google Wave platform.
I was at the keynote speech where they released Google Wave, and I really believed in the potential of it as a platform.
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The code they released adds more features and delivers a more complete "Wave in a Box" solution.
This pro...
I have been reviewing a lot of APIs lately. I"m evaluating their potential for integration into applications.
As I'm going through I"m also evaluating how they deliver t...
In addition to adopting Gist, I have quickly adopted a new tool that shows you rich contact profiles right inside Gmail. It is called Rapportive.
I have h...
I once quit a job because I got called into a meeting where the agenda was to discuss having too many meetings.
I am needing more programmatic control over my Amazon EC2 environment. I am rebuilding all server instances on my Amazon Web Services network.
I needed to reconfigure using EBS Volumes for file and data storage, and upgrade the operating system...
I had a chance to play with the AlchemyAPI I came across today. AlchemyAPI is a semantic tagging and text mining Application Programming Interface (API).
I can parse any document or web page and tell you what words exist in the content. I can tell you which words are most used or potentially meaningful in the content.
What I would like to have is more meaningful sets of key phrases and tag sets that are specific to certain topics and industries.
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I have a "hobby" harvesting project going on right now. I'm am harvesting several thousand web pages from various locations on a certain topic.
I'm not really interested in the content itself, but the top keywords that are used in the content. I pulled the page and extracted the body content that I am interested in analyzing.
I then want to pull a list of the top keywords and key phrases used in the page.
So I am faced with next steps:
Spen...
