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By June it was clear, NodeOne, the well-renowned and highly res...

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Welcome to the world of conf...

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One of the websites I’ve become almost addicted to lately is Quora. I read and post there on a nearl...

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When we fail to empathize with our u...

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Now and then a video game is released that shapes i...

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A popular theme in scienc...

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I tend to write a lot about customer service and how (poorly) companies hand...

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For a very long time, the quintessential si...

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Something that caused quite a bit of a stir...

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A lot of my ...

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One of the things that can relatively easy make your company stand head and shoulders above ...

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A lot of people know me as the “estimates guy...

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The challenges of hiring developers and technical team members keep vexing ...

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It’s the snow season. Or for us who enjoy zip...

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In its latest version, Google Docs spreadsheets now support using formulas for conditionally...

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I was excited today to see that Apple had released the new version of Keynote. An avid user and long t...

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During my session in Prague on September 26th, I talked about result-only we...

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Anyone who’s worked with text has been in the situation where something needs to be change...

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You can’t believe it. Your friend. Confidante. Colleague. Yes,...

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So it turns out you have a Saturday available and it’s unplanned and you wonder what to do ...

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There are some tools that are so powerful that you can do really stupid things with them. Use...

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I’m doing more and more writing in Scrivener, including blog posts, and I use Markdown for ...

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This is a paper I wrote back when I was studying cognitive sc...

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I recently experienced a c...

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I recently went skiing. For this trip I modified my helmet headphones with the si...

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How many of the services you use do you allow to "connect" to your Facebook or Twitter account? I...

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I love science fiction. I sometimes wish I was born in ...

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I'm still reeling and recovering from...

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In May it's time for DrupalCon to come to Portland, Oregon. For this DrupalCon I've submitted sessio...

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Recently a good friend of mine retold to me an old Zen story that reminds us of the importan...

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Netflix just launched its streaming service in Sweden. Call it th...

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Many speculated about the future of Apple ...

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As long as telcos and mobile networks try to scam us on absurdly high roaming ...

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When applying for a job you're usually expected to send in two things: résumé and cover letter. Of these two, the cover letter is often what shifts the scale in your favor. Writ...

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