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Category Archives: amplafi
anti-sales people at LayeredTech
Talk about a really interesting take on what being a sales person means. It is my general (perhaps misconceived) notion that when a customer contacts a sales person that their job is to try to evaluate the customer’s needs and … Continue reading
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sun should get into the hosting business
Sun keeps trying to offer Sun essentials for startups to Amplafi. The problem is that we don’t want to purchase services at the box level. We want to purchase at the java vm level. Buying a box means we have … Continue reading
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Notes from the “End of Software”
So this evening, I got to dine on some very nice flesh courtesy of Callidus Software. They sponsored Tim C.K. Chou talking about the “End of Software”, otherwise known as Software as a Service (SaaS). Interesting talk, confirming what I … Continue reading
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coders vs programmers
Interesting article from February in Times of India – The myth of the Indian programmer. First there is the interesting description of coders v. programmers: Most software professionals in India are not programmers, they are mere coders,” says a senior … Continue reading
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Thoughts on how to evaluate code
I met someone at Startup Camp2 who was non-techincal but had an idea that required technical expertise. She faced the typical problem of judging and evaluate software code in order to make sure the people she hired were: competent making … Continue reading
Posted in amplafi, code review, management, technical
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What the hell were they thinking?
I ran across this article about IE’s ‘wonderful’ MIME sniffing. Take a look at this report. Apparently, Internet Explorer looks at the first 256 characters of the file requested. If IE thinks it looks like HTML, it interprets it as … Continue reading
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Mantra for BuildCap
Guy Kawasaki’s “Art of the Start†talk says that you need a mantra not a mission statement for a company. Here is my cut at it: Helping you save the world without sacrificing your family. What do you think?
Posted in amplafi, non-profits
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mashup heaven in politics
Yesterday, I was at AspirationTech’s 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit and met a few interesting people. Including one from Sunlight Foundation. Sunlight Foundation has a few interesting mash-ups. First, they have the EarMarks mashup which puts all the “earmarks” from … Continue reading
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about passion for the cause….
Buildcap is focusing on the non-profit space. This results in reading a bunch of blogs about non-profits, including this one about passion: We need passion for the cause, passion for delivering real benefits to stakeholders. Charity employees (and volunteers) need … Continue reading
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we launched our alpha release
Yeah! We are going into early alpha for the new buildcap.com for non-profits and political organizations. More news later. (right now the alpha site is a little secret )
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