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- Why developers aren't marketers: no-one thought that "night of meat" might not be a great name for an event benefiting women in tech. about 6 hours ago from Echofon ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- You know the cats missed me when a bird lands on the balcony, actually hops inside the open door, and neither of them budge. about 7 hours ago from Echofon ReplyRetweetFavorite
Monthly Archives: June 2011
tell us about your private cloud
My user research team at VMware is doing a lot of research. Besides the vCloud Director study that I’m doing, one of my fellow researchers is looking for people who want to talk about their private cloud with us. If … Continue reading
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vCloud Director admins needed for research
My team is conducting research on vCloud Director. I’m interested in talking to org admins who have deployed vCloud Director to their end-users. I’m especially interested in deployments of vCloud Director to end-users who aren’t necessarily very tech-savvy. In short, … Continue reading
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guest appearance on the Angry Mac Bastards podcast
Somehow, John Welch suckered me into doing a guest appearance on the Angry Mac Bastards podcast with him, Darby Lines, and Peter Cohen. I jumped on the bandwagon this week, mostly to have the opportunity to talk about the recent … Continue reading
Posted in development, Nadyne
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sexism, trolling, and not helping
Violet Blue, a self-described sex educator, wrote a blog post for ZDNet about WWDC. It’s a long rambling post which seems to be comprised of five blog posts that inexplicably got smushed into one. Smushing them into a single post … Continue reading
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feedback and constructive criticism
In response to my blog post about taking feedback, Bryan started off with the following: Reading your post about how some developers can’t take “constructive criticism” or as you wrote, “feedback,” I view “feedback” as a superset of “constructive criticism”. … Continue reading
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on taking, and giving, feedback
Remember “The Daily”? It launched in February. It’s a subscription newspaper for your iPad, commissioned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The main UI is a carousel, allowing you to flip through the pages of the paper to get to the … Continue reading
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I hate the Apple Store
The Apple Store is now 10 years old. As I’ve been reading all of the articles in the tech press about it, I realized that I’m not sure when I last set foot in an Apple Store. I think it … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Nadyne
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win a signed copy of “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director”
My colleague Duncan Epping, who is one of the co-authors of the shiny new Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director, is giving away a copy signed by VMware CEO Paul Maritz. Head over to his blog to comment and be … Continue reading
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my wikification
Until joining VMware, I haven’t been very wiki-fied. It’s not for lack of exposure. I know Ward Cunningham1 through my involvement with OOPSLA (now SPLASH). I’ve attended WikiSym, also through my involvement with OOPSLA. I even helped the WikiSym folks … Continue reading
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