A historical collection of our writing.
I will be taking most of the rest of August off from writing daily blog posts. I am largely doing this because I will also be unplugging from the constant information drip. This is the information equivalent of a purge diet. My theory is that we are mal-adapted to the supersaturated information […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the last two Tech Tuesdays we have learned about how functions let us define new words in a programming language and how arguments and other local variables are restricted to the scope of the function. Today we will take another look at arguments and how exactly information is passed into the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Dalton Caldwell announced yesterday on his blog and on Twitter that app.net has reached its initial funding goal. I look forward to seeing what happens next and am watching the api spec on Github. Here is what I believe would be interesting to see: a clear roadmap for embracing emerging standards […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday we learned about functions as a way to define our own words in a programming language. We saw that functions take arguments and return results back to where the function was used in the program. We refer to this transfer of control of program execution from the current code to the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen I introduced this series on People, I stated that it was going to have a bunch of guest posts because there are many people who know a lot more about the people side of business than I do. One of them is Susan Loh who is Head of Talent at Foursquare. I asked Susan […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
This past weekend was the first annual Ecommerce Hack Day in New York organized by Dwolla and Etsy with support from many other companies. I was delighted to be a judge as there were a lot of talented folks working hard on building interesting ecommerce hacks. Here are some of my takeaways from the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
