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tl;dr: When hiring a programmer, choose substance over style

One peril of cloud computing: an S3 outage is currently affecting Heroku, and Realized is unavailable at the moment.

"Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs" by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah takes you step by step through exactly what its title says.

Having Basecamp walk the plank in the 'trailer' is engaging. But isn't Google Apps the real competition?

Because of its searchable Knowledge Base for customer self-help, we also chose to use Tender (the SaaS platform used by New Relic).

Grocery stores figured this out years ago with self-checkout. Scanning each item can be tedious (looking up produce codes, etc.), and yet many customers prefer to scan their own it…

A priceless quote: "Never in the history of man has a software developer said "I'm stuck doing Ruby for my day job but I'm really hoping to find a job in .NET or Java.""

From a broader perspective, I expect that the Rails versioning nomenclature will conform to SemVer ( http://semver.org/ ). Yesterday, wycats tweeted that he believes strongly in Se…

SkyMarshall said Those will all teach you what not to do, which is just as, if not more important in investing and trading than what to do. Anyone can notice the successful investm…

If users were the customers ... really gets to the core of the problem that Facebook has evolved itself into. Instead, users are the product. Advertisers are the customers. Too bad…

No doubt about the fact that ( more employees == more inefficiency ) for the corporation. But the benefit to the 20 members of the community that have gone from zero income to work…

We have a situation of 'haves' and 'have nots'. A corporation of 100 employees has every reason to prefer that those employees work at 120% (50 hrs/wk). Our society would benefit i…