Business Insider posted this spectacular interactive google map of our amazing Startup Ecosystem here in New York City. Wow! Check out the full list of NYC Startups in the original article. View NYC Startups in a larger map
Monthly Archives: November 2011
How to hire a developer that doesn’t suck
First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse operations team. By the way we also have a MySQL DBA Interview Questions article which is quite popular. Also take …
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Book review – Trust Agents by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith
Stumbling onto 800-CEO-Read, and their top books feature, I found Brogan and Smith’s work. Brogan’s blog intrigued me enough so I walked down to the Strand here in NYC to pick up a copy. What I found was an excellent introduction to the nebulous world of social media marketing, where you find all sorts of …
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Seattle Web Tech Meetup Nov 21
I’ll be one of two speakers at the next Seattle Web Technology Bi-Weekly Meet up on Nov 21 at the Citrus Lounge. They’ve sexed it up a little by calling it a face-off between Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 (no prizes for guessing which side I represent) but really it’s going to be a primer …
Book Review – Effective MySQL
Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements by Ronald Bradford No Nonsense, Readable, Practical, and Compact I like that this book is small; 150 pages means you can carry it easily. It’s also very no nonsense. It does not dig too deeply into theory unless it directly relates to your day-to-day needs. And those needs probably cluster …
5 Tips to Cache Websites and Boost Speed
Often when we think about speeding up and scaling, we focus on the application layer itself. We look at the webserver tier, and database tier, and optimize the most resource intensive pages. There’s much more we can do to speed things up, if we only turn over the right stones. Whether you’re using WordPress or …