The End of an era. Now what?

With Steve Jobs leaving Apple, our industry faces something it hasn’t faced in decades. The two men that built the PC era, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, have both left the companies they founded. I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the effe…

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It’s a great time to be a software developer in Michigan

I’d had this feeling for a while that developers are in high demand in Michigan.  Earlier this week, I had confirmation on that during a meeting with some folks at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). The MEDC, by working with …

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Can others see a future for Detroit?

My business partner, Dianne Marsh, wrote her most recent article for annarbor.com on activities happening in Detroit to improve the city. Far too many people have the view presented in the Wall Street Journal article she references. Too few see the hom…

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Flex your cross platform muscle

We’ve repeatedly said that the best developers learn different technologies and different platforms. I think this is especially true in the RIA space, where your customers may be using a different device, and different platform than you typically use…

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My CodeMash 2010 experience

I have enjoyed reading other posts about how much people enjoyed CodeMash. It is my favorite yearly conference. The people are brilliant, and energized about technology. It’s also one of very few events that embrace people with very different views. …

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It’s a good thing they ‘do no evil’, or this would bother me

"Google Abandons Standards, forks Open ID"  Excerpt: Basically, Google has rewritten OpenID. Not only is it not exactly the same as the current OpenID protocol, it’s so different that existing OpenID relying parties won’t be able to…

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