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About a month ago I followed a link from a post on Web Worker Daily that mentioned Emily Chang. I hadn’t heard of her before, so I was curious. The first post on her blog at the time was about building...
View ArticleHold my data for a while
Yesterday the Financial Times reported an interview with Eric Schmidt where he says, “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get...
View ArticleMa.gnolia Ate My Bookmarks
The service went down on Jan. 30th, losing all user data. I had been saving bookmarks there since May 2007, and kept only partial backups locally. Their latest update: So far, my efforts to recover...
View ArticleGetting Involved with CivicApps
In addition to the economic planning activities I talked about in my previous post, there’s another area where local government is trying to engage with software developers, open source ones in...
View ArticleWhat Needs Aren’t Being Met?
I went through the answers to two more questions from the first PDC survey to provide a summary of responses. These involved things respondents wanted in order to improve their business’s relationship...
View ArticleHow Much Does a Software Developer in Portland Earn?
One of the topics I’ve become interested in through PDX11 and other economic development discussions is the variation in wages for local programmers. Surveys like the one we did last year reveal a wide...
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