My first post back in August identified a project I was going to start, and my goal was to have it done in six weeks. I’m *close*, and closer than last week, but probably another week off. Not happy with myself for missing my initial deadline, and I know even when it ‘launches’ [...]
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Six week test progress update
October 11, 2009
Progress on six week test – looking for authors
September 18, 2009
As a quick followup to my previous post (http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/six-week-test-followup-custom-business-cards/) I wanted to drop a quick update here. Six weeks isn’t too long if it’s your only activity. Trying to fit in a six week project in the midst of other projects and deadlines is hard, but you already knew that!. I’m 4.5 weeks in, and [...]
Web Development Job Hunter classes (raleigh)
September 10, 2009
I’ve been working with a couple local people on developing a short term plan for them to get in to or move around in the web development job space, and I was wondering if there’s a need for something perhaps sightly more formal in the Raleigh area. Here’s my initial sketch…
Weekly classes (probably Saturday morning) [...]
US Federal government to change cookie policy?
August 18, 2009
I stumbled on an article recently about the government’s plan to change its cookie policy. There wasn’t a whole lot in the article other than that the new federal CIO Vivek Kundra has proposed that federal websites be allowed to use persistent cookies to track visitors.
It’s *about time*. Give me, the tech savvy end user, [...]
Six week test followup – custom business cards
August 17, 2009
I’m taking my own advice and plunging ahead with a small, focused six-weeker. I’m not sure this counts or not because A) I’ve had the idea for several months and B) I did a bit of work on it several weeks ago. With that said, perhaps I should only give myself five weeks [...]
GroovyMag and JSMag issues
August 17, 2009
The August issues of GroovyMag and JSMag are both out. They’ve been out since earlier this month, but I didn’t publicize them here yet.
GroovyMag’s content this month includes Part I of building a Grails Portal, Part II of Logging in Grails, a deeper look at Groovy Typing, the Clojure Plugin, Grails with RMI, [...]
The six week test
August 15, 2009
I’ve been speaking with a number of local entrepreneurs over the past few weeks, and they all have a few things in common. All are sharp, smart, have good taste (hey, they’re talking to me, right?), have some killer ideas, and seem to be stuck. Taking definitive action on the ideas seems to be the [...]
Lost art of simplicity
July 1, 2009
I had the pleasure of seeing Josh Holmes keynote CodeStock Saturday morning. His presentation, “The Lost Art of Simplicity,” was very well done. Very broad topic, but very applicable to likely everyone in the room. Certainly I took away many good points. In some ways, it’s a lot of points that we *know* at an [...]
DVR functionality on the web?
June 18, 2009
Just saw on TechCrunch tonight that Justin.TV has taken a first step towards DVR functionality in their player. Good to see it, and I just felt like posting that I did call this out as a need last fall It’s not quite what I was hoping for just yet, but it sounds like [...]
Service to record voice conversations from cell phone
June 17, 2009
I’ve wanted a way to record cell phone conversations for *years*. With the proliferation of smart phones, you’d think we’d have this by now, but it’s still not a feature widely available (and, reportedly, blocked by some device manufacturers). So, to scratch my own initial itch, I’ve put together a service to allow me to [...]
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