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File: May 2009

2009-05-26 :: scottilevy // Customer Development + Product Development + Productivity + Sales and Marketing
Ruby and Ruby on Rails Learning Resources

This post inspired by chatting with @myweekendapp on Twitter about Ruby. His conversation piqued my interest because I remember when we first dove into Ruby a couple of years ago, so I am sharing the way we developed mastery of the language. When we set out to tackle Ruby on Rails we..and Will in particular [...]

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2009-05-20 :: scottilevy // Product Development
Good blog for entrepeneurs: Venture Hacks

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2009-05-19 :: timesaver // Open Sourciness + Product Development
Fun with JavaScript from the Dojo.js folks

http://demos.dojotoolkit.org/demos/cropper/

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2009-05-19 :: admin // Nonlinear Growth + Sales and Marketing
Critical Concepts for "Information Technology"

Wikipedia now has a great article on Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations If technology touches your career, this research provides some excellent perspectives and tools. It has been used by some of the giants of high technology, and notably Geoffry Moore used it to develop his book series “Crossing the Chasm”.

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2009-05-16 :: scottilevy // Creativity + Learning
Compiling a list of the top online learning resources for kids 10 and under

For an upcoming article, I am assembling a list of the top online learning Web sites for kids under 10. Care to submit one? or a few? I am including Web sites that nurture creativity in some way as well. Here is what I need: Name URL If you can, it would be great to [...]

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2009-05-13 :: scottilevy // Emerging Technology + Sales and Marketing
Facebook pages useful for events

Yesterday there was a 100% spike in new visitors for Lakewoodstock.com…topping out above 100 for the day. 53% of the day’s traffic was from Facebook, the majority of the rest came from people who saw fliers. For the last week or so, Facebook has driven around 38% of our new visits. The event currently has [...]

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2009-05-07 :: scottilevy // Open Sourciness + Product Development
Follow Will as he becomes a Dojo.js Sensei

Will, in classic Will-fashion, has been methodically developing deep knowledge and expertise in the Dojo.js. O’Reilly books purchased and read, flashcards created in YoYoBrain, Dojo implemented in YoYoBrain and in fact has replaced a great many of our Scriptaculous based UI elements. Now we are spec’ing a very cool Dojo.js based widget. Similar to techniques [...]

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2009-05-04 :: scottilevy // Emerging Technology + Product Development
Posterus gives you the easiest route to blogging.

Just launched my personal Posterous blog for hobbies and kid-related stuff. Crazy how easy it is to get started. Worth examining their process just to see a state of the art sign up process and UI. You can check me out here scottilevy.posterous.com .

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