SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. Dramatic, cloudy sunset at Dulles right now as we head to the Bay Area. It's going to be a big E2.0 week. [link] [from [link]. Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.com. RT @cheeky_geeky Privacy is dead, & social media hold smoking gun, by Pete Cashmore for CNN [link] < Uncomfortable but true [from [link].

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 3, 2009

If you’ve ever had an impulse to write and publish a book, I urge you to act on it. Not because of the money or visibility. But because of the feeling you’ll get when someone, somewhere, reads your book and then sends you an email like this: “Dear Steve, The Radical Leap worked in reverse for me. I quit my job and literally walked out of my 35th floor corner office in downtown and entered the streets of Houston.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Pew Study Reports That Internet Users Are Becoming More Status Update-Friendly. Behavior changes: The number of Internet users that update their social status has doubled to 19% [link] [from [link]. JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy | Javalobby. RT @indrayam JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy | Javalobby [link] [from [link].

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2009

October is normally a heads-down month. In addition to being in the home stretch of meeting our yearly objectives, we must dedicate cycles to shaping, communicating and justifying our plans for next year. October is also a busy month for information sharing. The thoughts and ideas that have percolated through the year reach their maturity about this time, and we want to share them before everybody goes on their winter holidays.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 12, 2009

During my days at the Tom Peters Company , I once gave an overview to prospective clients of Terry Pearce ‘s program, Leading Out Loud, which was all about authentic leadership communication. (And, to this day, probably the best program of its kind–offered nowadays by BlessingWhite ). Afterward, one of the participants came up to me and said that, while he enjoyed my presentation–that I spoke well, used slides well, was funny and entertaining, etc.–he didn’t think I

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Jeremiah Grossman

OCTOBER 28, 2009

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve?

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Amazon Web Services Blog: Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service. Amazon introduced their relational database cloud service (RDS) today. Great overview by @JeffBarr: [link] [from [link]. The quiet arrival of the SharePoint killer | The Parallax View. The quiet arrival of the SharePoint killer: [link] Interesting analysis of WebEx Connect in particular.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Ruminations of a Programmer

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Just wanted to share the detailed Table of Contents of the chapters that have been written so far. Please send in your feedbacks either as comments on this post or in the Author Online Forum. The brief ToC is part of the book home page. Let me know of any other topic that you wopuld like to see as part of this book. Chapter 1. Learning to speak the Language of the Domain 1.1.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The management side of my speaking business has been through a couple of starts and stops over the last year or so, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve landed in the magnificent hands of the renown SpeakersOffice team. The legendary (in the speaking world, at least) Holli Catchpole and her gang are the best in the business. A cliched phrase, no doubt, but not in this case.

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Jeremiah Grossman

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Note: Delayed due to travel requirements. Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! OWASP Podcast #44 Interview with Andy Steingruebl Cross-Domain Security (WASC) Web Application Security Statistics 2008 Adoption of X-FRAME-OPTIONS header Integrating WAFs And Vulnerability Scanners Regular Expressio

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 13, 2009

I'm hoping you can help me figure out who I should be connecting with on this. I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. These presentations always inspire people to do more with LinkedIn, create or improve their blog, and maybe do more with Twitter.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Enterprise. Interesting, my Join the Conversation dialogue is up on Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Enterprise site: [link] Please join in. [from [link]. Mozilla tries to build the ultimate in-box: Raindrop | Deep Tech - CNET News. Mozilla attempts to unify social communications with Raindrop: [link] [from [link]. Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Ruminations of a Programmer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My book DSLs in Action (see sidebar) is now available in MEAP (Manning Early Access Program). I have planned it to be one totally for the real world DSL implementers. It starts with a slow paced introduction to abstraction design, discusses principles for well-designed abstractions and then makes a deep dive to the world of DSL based development. The first part of the book focuses on usage of DSLs in the real world and how you would go about setting up your DSL based development environment.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Happy Diwali 2009 It’s that time of the year when our hearts are filled with love and warmth – I wish all readers of this blog, a “VERY HAPPY DIWALI”. Literally, Diwali means an “array of lights” and it reminds us to light a lamp of love in our hearts, of compassion to serve others and of knowledge to drive out the darkness of ignorance.

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Jeremiah Grossman

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! null-prefix certificate for paypal Statistics from 10,000 leaked Hotmail passwords OWASP Interview with Andy Steingruebl Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria Version 1.0 All about Website Password Policies 9 Ways to Improve Application Securi

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Kurt Daradics ( Facebook , @KurtyD , FriendFeed , MySpace , LinkedIn , Delicious ) (pronounced dare-a-dix) is a great guy to know. He recently co-founded CitySourced and I think Ben Kuo nailed him when he describes him as "a connector. someone who makes things happen, and knows everyone, and does his best to make the world a better place." Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Reasons Your SOA Project is Bound to Fail. Yikes. Reasons Your SOA Project is Bound to Fail: [link] It's actually about the resurgence of SOA however. [from [link]. Irreconcilable Differences?: Collaborative Media and the Chain of Command : Gov 2.0 University. Irreconcilable Differences? Collaborative Media and the Chain of Command: [link] #gov20 [from [link].

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full All Great Content Is An Intersection: The Brian Clark Interview by Starbucker on October 18, 2009 Brian Clark is a writer who loves to write about his craft, and it shows. His blog, Copyblogger , is one of the most popular sites on the Internet for writers and fellow bloggers of all stripes.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

OCTOBER 4, 2009

NoSql is here. Yes, like using multiple programnming languages, we are thinking in terms of using the same paradigm with storage too. And why not? If we can use an alternate language to be more expressive for a specific problem, why not use an alternate form of storage that is a better fit for your requirement? More and more projects are using alternate forms of storage for persistence of the various forms of data that the application needs to handle.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Managers, Nurture Creativity. Don’t Kill It! Bob, the project manager, was busy communicating with client via MSN Messenger, his eyes focused on the computer screen and fingers fiercely hitting the keyboard in a fine synchrony with his brain. Jay, the team member, approach Bob with a suggestion - “Sir, for this particular requirement of the project, I have a suggestion that can save us a few lines of code, time and may also improve the performance”,

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