Archive for the 'Business' Category

Using the Batchbook REST API to create contact records from ColdFusion

Trust your gut. The important part is that people are talking.

Digital media is ephemeral but the discovery of an old consulting project is a quick trip down memory lane

New Amazon Web Services offer EC2 monitoring, load balancing and auto-scaling. These tools make it easier to achieve high availability without a cost penalty.

Inspiration and insight from other entrepreneurs on startups and what it takes to succeed. Great Friday reading.

A 2008 retrospective. A good way to feel accomplished and get excited about 2009.

This slide by Adam Nash of LinkedIn via Christina that describes the skills of a successful Product Manager for a web company. It graphs what I love about my job as an entrepreneur: the opportunity to participate in many disciplines. This week I coded a major new feature, negotiated a travel [...]

People get an ego stroke by seeing their name in the credits of something. We all love it. Yet how many of us have contributed code to an open source project they didn’t start? I can’t tell you how many times I have considered contributing to a project I use only to [...]

Let’s talk about being an e-commerce company. We have this fun thing called PCI DSS that has a few hundred security and procedural requirements for anyone taking credit cards. Then we have third party integrations like product fulfillment that require us, as the intermediary, to pass around the credit card number to complete [...]

Heard via friends inside that Yahoo! is cutting loose lots of people today as speculated in the news recently. People are being called into conference rooms and dismissed. Apparently the severance package pays out through May so it’s a relatively “soft” landing. Tough times for the Y.