This is a response to a recent TechCrunch post on leadership qualities and my own experiences working with startups and small businesses.
Well, less of a response, and more just some observations.  I’m no expert on the specific of the people involved – Jobs, Grove and Campbell – but I think they all shared something with [...]

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I get asked this on a fairly regular basis, often by people new to the domain and hosting scene.  I’ve got a lot of domains at GoDaddy that I’ve purchased over the years, but for most new domain purchases I’ve found omnis.com, and I’ve been very happy with them so far (just over a year). [...]

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Are you interested?  I’m looking at bringing the same style product that we’ve been delivering to the Groovy community to the JRuby and Jython communities, respectively.  If there’s enough interest, we’ll move forward.  Care to register interest?  Sign up at http://jrubymag.com and/or http://jythonmag.com and let me know what you’d like to see covered.

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I signed a business agreement with someone about 2 years ago, and was looking forward to the arrangement being smooth.  It hasn’t been so far – the other party simply hasn’t fulfilled their end of the agreement.  The more I looked at the original language, I realized it was fairly one-sided (probably typical in this [...]

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My recent thoughts turned to airline security last night after learning of the flight coming in to Detroit in which a man tried to blow up the plane. (link and link, though I’m sure there’s thousands more now).
I’ve never subscribed to the theory that our US airport security did all that much in terms of preventing [...]

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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey asking for input on the next magazine topic for Web Dev Publishing to pursue.  The results were interesting, but unfortunately the results were not definitive, and I’m left with the same quandry as before – which topic to choose.
The winner of the survey, selected at random, was [...]

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I wrote this to Brian Hitney after we’d briefly touched on cloud computing in my podcast with him last week.  I thought I’d post it here for any reaction from the rest of the internet…
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Another point on the economics that isn’t brought up is the cost of data transfer and data storage in the cloud, which [...]

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I’m turning to the community to help determine what our next magazine topic should be.  Please visit http://webdevpub.com/topics to give your input on what you’d be interested in reading more about.  Entrants who submit an email address will be entered to win an Amazon gift card, to drawn on our around December 9.

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Consider working with Web Dev Pubishing to publish your knowledge as an ebook.  Learn more or just submit your idea.

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I’ve got a PDF watermarking web service I’m considering opening up as a service for others (currently using it internally for my own projects).  If this is something that sounds like it would be of interest to you, let me know.  It should be a pretty easy integration piece, but I’d be interested in getting [...]

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