Coté's People Over Process

• Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development : Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience
  Nice manifesto/ethos type overview of what's new, different, and good with Windows Phone 7. A sort of statement of what they're working on according to what people have told Microsoft they want in a mobile platform.
• Pecan Street contracts with federal lab
• MF Bliki: VcsSurvey
  Martin Fowler asks ThoughtWorkers what they think about different version control systems. Svn and git come up high.
• Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping!
  I've noticed this phenomena a lot recently. Nerds try to "optimize" some aspect of their person life (where most everything is not an optimized process) and their spouses are greatly confused and stop them.
• DevOps – You’re Doing IT Wrong « fate = will && choice || circumstance
• InfoQ: Agile Infrastructure
• My Book – The New Polymath
  Companies are once again looking towards actual technology and innovations for ways to make money – not just goof-ball financial schemes and Internet profit zero hoopla.
• Open Source Business Conference: 5 Trends Worth Watching
  Wow, that's some in-depth thinking ahead on OSBC. A round-up of all the commercial open source parlor games and riddles going on at the moment.
• Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love (Ken Fisher/Ars Technica)
  Snarky alternate title: "why ads are devastating to my wallet."
• Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting
  Has Steve Gillmor started going on about how this is the gesture economy finally realized? "Geo-gestures"? "Gesture-geos"? "Gesture" is also nice for a pun on Jester.
• Ubuntu Linux for Mainframes? Not Quite…
  No Ubuntu on z.
• Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project
• Appcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform app dev technology
• “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape « The Metric System
• Google Buys DocVerse: People as Important as the Technology
• MongoDB Day Austin: the details | geekaustin
  Check it out, NoSQL gang event in Austin on March 27th.
• BazaarVoice Hits 100 Billion Mark
  "Now, as you can tell from the home page, the company has reached the 100 billion milestone. That’s a lot of reviews and user-generated content!"
• People to follow on Twitter during SXSW Interactive | Digital Savant
• BidModo Launches Online Marketplace Connecting Businesses and Vendors
  "BidModo allows for business owners to post a service request and review a short list of suppliers that meet specific cost, need, scope and services requirements that are vetted by the online marketplace database. This allows for easy comparison of cost, vendor profiles and ratings from previous clients of the vendors. The value is saved time and money and the ability to link with the best possible vendor."
• For some Austin startups, siphoning VC money has become a way of life
• Microsoft-seeded foundation picks Headspring Systems project
• Austin social gaming developer Big Six acquired
• Facebook may open 200-person Austin office – Austin Business Journal:
• Austin Ventures teams with MySpace founders to acquire gaming platform – Austin Business Journal:
• Splunkbase! | Splunk Blogs
• Loggly raises $500K to search your log files | VentureBeat
  Interesting developer angle. Also, note that it's True Ventures: they do a lot of novel of investing.
• MSPs: How to Compete with Google Apps, Microsoft BPOS
  Wow, consise round up of tips for MSPs and even reseller types for cloud services. Does cloud help provide a long tail (endless small engagements) for nerds on wheels types?
• Microsoft puts its stamp on cross-platform link to ALM server
• HP pushes converged IT for all
• Microsoft maybe gets the cloud – maybe too late
• Buy a phone for mum and get a free beauty treatment
• IBM and Eclipse efforts focus on OSGi modularity

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