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- Creating a Successful Tech Environment in the Central Valley: Promote Flexibility and Freedom
To create a successful development environment in your team I think you need to promote flexibility and freedom.
- Creating a Successful Tech Environment in the Central Valley: Passionate vs. Career
Today I wanted to discuss passionate vs. career programmers. If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you know there are two kinds of people: The kind who go to college, get their degree, apply for a job, get the job and *just* do their job. They come in at 8, go home at 5. [...]
- Creating a Successful Tech Environment in the Central Valley: Loyalty, Build It
One of the problems that a lot of developers, programmers and engineers in Fresno yet alone the central valley face is the lack of a cool, successful tech environment at their job.
- Need Free Microsoft Tools? Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program!
This one is for the Microsoft guys. As most people know Microsoft charges an arm and a leg for their development tools and servers. For example, a single copy of Visual Studio without MSDN subscription is $800. When you have limited capital, limited resources this can be difficult. And Microsoft has obviously acknowledged this. On [...]
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week
A lot of talk (or buzz) on here lately regarding my initial post on some of us geeks getting together for drinks and discussing our ideas. This is great news and am excited to mingle with fellow nerds here in Fresno. I just wanted to update on the final status of this meeting and where [...]
- Startup Drinks / Nerd Dinner for Fresno?
I’ve been thinking about some ideas to help promote local developers and programmers here in Fresno and getting to know others. One idea I really liked and experienced once was Startup Drinks San Francisco, which was really fun. I was new to the city and I got to meet with lots of developers for some [...]
- “Start It Up” Winner to Leave Central Valley
If you recall, last year there was a contest sponsored by the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which awarded Vine Global $100,000 in cash and $150,000 in prizes. As this article over at The Business Journal stated, one of the goals for the winner was to provide economic growth for Fresno and promote growth [...]
- Outsourcing PlasticJungle to the Silicon Jungle
This is something that’s been bothering me for a while. If you weren’t aware, there is a local startup located here in Clovis, CA called PlasticJungle. They are a small company filling a big void right now: gift cards. But what they do is allow you to buy/sell discounted gift cards. Everyone wins right? Well [...]
