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Event News: FOWA Summer Sale, Stack Overflow Dev Days Selling out & your chance to speak on the FOWD Tour

1. July 2009

1625Comments2009-07-01+08%3A58%3A04Keir+Whitaker

In this edition of “Event News” we offer you the chance to save up to 50% of FOWA 2 day conference passes, announce new cities for the upcoming Stack Overflow Dev Days series of conferences, reveal new speakers and details of the new uber-cool workshop venue for Future of Web Apps London and give you [...]

Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

27. June 2009

1611Comments2009-06-27+08%3A04%3A14Kevin+Rose

In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below. Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective. What advice can you give [...]

Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?

24. June 2009

1595Comments2009-06-24+21%3A17%3A04Martin+Kleppmann

Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?

Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and various commercial products, have served us well for many years. Lately, however, there has been a lot of discussion on whether the relational model is reaching the end of its life-span, and what may come after it. Should you care? Which database technology should you be using? Of course the [...]

Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

16. June 2009

1562Comments2009-06-16+12%3A57%3A05Ryan+Carson

Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

There’s a worryingly high web app mortality rate right now. I think the primary cause is the lack of marketing knowledge and how to apply it to web apps. I spoke at FOWA Tour Leeds on this subject so I’m going to summarize the major points below for you. You can also watch the complete video [...]

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

10. June 2009

1544Comments2009-06-10+08%3A27%3A53Ryan+Carson

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

We’ve compiled six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery. Feel free to disagree or add your own in the comments below. If you’d like to submit a tip to be considered for future articles, [...]

Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

3. June 2009

1516Comments2009-06-03+09%3A44%3A54Ryan+Carson

Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

Google recently announced their most ambitious project to date called Google Wave. According to Google, Wave is “what email would look like if it was invented today.” If you haven’t made time to watch the one hour video, I’d highly recommend you do so today. What’s the big deal? I believe there are six reasons why Wave is [...]

Email Power Tips

24. May 2009

1507CommentsEmail+Power+Tips2009-05-24+21%3A10%3A02Ryan+Carson

I’ve noticed that when I get stressed at work, it’s often because my email inbox is out of control. I’ve got hundreds of unread emails, with no idea which ones are important. I finally decided I needed to learn how to be much more effective with email, so I came up with a few strategies. Thanks [...]

How to Effectively Manage Your (Huge) Todo List

19. May 2009

1364Comments2009-05-19+16%3A44%3A11Ryan+Carson

How to Effectively Manage Your (Huge) Todo List

We live in hectic times. As information professionals we regularly have to battle overflowing email inboxes, monitor a flood of Tweets, craft attention-grabbing blog posts and on top of all that, remember to buy some milk on the way home. I’ve developed a pretty effective methodology for making sure you stay focused on the important stuff. [...]

Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

17. May 2009

1488CommentsLaunch+a+Business%2C+Not+a+Side+Project2009-05-18+04%3A43%3A08Ryan+Carson

I think we have a serious problem in our industry. I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job [...]

Stack Overflow Dev Days

13. May 2009

1455CommentsStack+Overflow+Dev+Days2009-05-13+18%3A21%3A57Ryan+Carson

We’re really excited to announce a brand new Carsonified event: Stack Overflow Dev Days. It’s a 1-day conference for programmers, in five different cities, and it’s only $99. As you probably know, Joel Spolsky is one of the founders of Stack Overflow and he summarized the event quite well: We decided to cram as many diverse topics [...]

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Event News: FOWA Summer Sale, Stack Overflow Dev Days Selling out & your chance to speak on the FOWD Tour

Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?

Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

Email Power Tips

How to Effectively Manage Your (Huge) Todo List

Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

Stack Overflow Dev Days

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