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Sep 11, 2012

Today on Tech Tuesday we are diving into Data Structures. The idea of a data structure that combines multiple attributes to describe a thing, goes back as far as the 1960s and possibly earlier. Both the COBOL and ALGOL programming [...] Read more

Sep 10, 2012

I have written about the topic of prioritization before, but maybe with a title that was too oblique – “Applying Engineering Business: Binding Constraints.” There I made the point that at any one time a startup tends to have only [...] Read more

Sep 7, 2012

Today’s Feature Friday is not about a single feature but rather about initially prioritizing user engagement and growth over other features and in particular over discovery and analytics. The idea here is simple but still often ignored. If you have [...] Read more

Sep 6, 2012

There is a rumor that Amazon today will announce an Android based smartphone tomorrow. And despite repeated denials there is also a persistent rumor of a Facebook phone that might be Android based. In China there are already several custom [...] Read more

Sep 5, 2012

Last Friday to Saturday I had the good fortune of being invited to crew on my friend Mark Hansen’s boat Sweet Lorraine (a beautiful J-145) in the 2012 Vineyard race. The course starts near the Stamford Harbor, goes up to [...] Read more

Sep 4, 2012

Having taken some time off, I am excited to start Tech Tuesdays back up. We will continue looking at programming and the next topic are more complex data types which are also referred to as data structures. If you have [...] Read more

Sep 3, 2012

I am back from a 2 week break from pretty much all things Internet. With relatively few exceptions I stayed away from email, checking in, blogging, tweeting, reading Techmeme and all the other things I usually do during the course [...] Read more

Aug 16, 2012

I will be taking most of the rest of August off from writing daily blog posts. I am largely doing this because I will also be unplugging from the constant information drip. This is the information equivalent of a purge [...] Read more

Aug 14, 2012

In the last two Tech Tuesdays we have learned about how functions let us define new words in a programming language and how arguments and other local variables are restricted to the scope of the function. Today we will take [...] Read more