Those working at the highest levels of abstraction inherit the most change from below.
Your application framework may be like standing on the shoulders of a giant, but that giant is a beneficiary of an entire civilization, which is nested on the ground of the Earth, which itself is locked in orbit around the Sun, which [...]

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The world is full of commercial software developers who breathe a huge sigh of relief when they ship a new release of their project. They start thinking about vacations. I used to be able to relate to that.

Before starting WGM, I used to be among the purist crowd who considered the ability to [...]

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[[ This is a first draft I posted rather quickly since I needed to share these instructions with a few people immediately. I'll be returning to this article to clean things up. ]]
Putting your screencast on most video sharing sites will require you to use resolutions much smaller than full-screen, high-definition video. It’s [...]

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After my post “JIRA Is More Annoying Than Having to Eat Three Times A Day” was published yesterday, Jon Silvers from Atlassian (developers of JIRA) stopped by and left a friendly comment.
I’m incredibly impressed that my tongue-in-cheek critique came to his attention so quickly.
Hey Jon,
First, thanks for commenting! I’m glad you [...]

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Photo by Grazie, Davvero
Robert Scoble recently stated why enterprise software isn’t sexy enough to cover on mainstream technology blogs.
He offers two arguments:

The majority of tech blog readers will never be in the position to buy enterprise software.
Stories about business software, due to a disconnect with their readership, don’t produce meaningful traffic for the blog’s advertisers.

He [...]

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Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
 
Scanning through the November 2007 analytics for www.cerberusweb.com shows 34% of our traffic comes from Google search results. We’ve always had a strong “word of mouth” factor in our marketing, but sometimes we get a bit too proud of that and overlook the benefits of fresh traffic from [...]

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