Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
On Monday, April 28, we spent several hours driving through the rain to Ottawa (to catch a plane and interview Tobias Lutke, but not in that order). I started singing Gary Allan's "Songs About Rain" (yep, I'm a sap), and a code frag appeared before my eyes:
void main(int argc, ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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I haven't posted for the last few days because I've been traveling to Canada to visit friends and family. On my tour I was able to stop in Ottawa to visit Tobias Lutke and the Shopify.com gang. They're excited ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Plus almost half of all respondents will use their rebate checks to shop until they drop. Read the whole article from Information Week.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Joel on Software and CodingHorror are teaming up to produce something new - a sort of an audio Experts-Exchange.com called StackOverflow.com. Here are some notes from Joel on the project, and here's what Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror) has to say. I enjoyed the first podcast and I'm looking forward ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Go grab a coffee and read this post from @gapingvoid. Tremendous insights. There are advantages to being older.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Read this Information Week article and get jealous. Or get busy. :)
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Elastic Path is a high end online-operations provider focusing on businesses with annual online sales in the $5M-$200M range. I was able to chat with Jason Billingsley of Elastic Path yesterday about his company and the world of shopping carts.
TheCartBlog: Looks like you've got a lot of Java ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Becoming an expert in your niche will pay dividends. Here are some ideas to get you started from Inside CRM.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This interview is a few months old but still worthwhile. 1ShoppingCart.com's Michael Valiant talked with Practical eCommerce; here's the unedited interview transcript. Not surprisingly, he's a huge fan of hosted carts, but it wasn't a cheerleading session; he can see both sides.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Regular readers of the blog know I'm a huge fan of Jeffrey Gitomer. His newsletter is a great read - there's always something inspiring in it. Of course, if you're looking for a shortcut to success you'll be disappointed; his advice tends to emphasize the ...
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