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	<title>Kyle Cordes</title>
	<link>http://kylecordes.com</link>
	<description>Software, Business, and Life</description>
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		<title>Write your whole stack in JavaScript with Node.JS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Node is a combination of Google&#8217;s V8 JavaScript implementation, and various plumbing and libraries. The result is an unusual and clever server programming platform. Node is in a fairly early development phase, and already has a remarkably active community: ~9000 mailing list messages (as of June 2010) and many dozens of projects and libraries. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/node-whole-stack</link>
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		<title>Helping Our Customers Hire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For today, a &#8220;day job&#8221; topic:
Oasis Digital (my firm) is a custom software development shop. It is not a staffing or recruiting firm; there are many good firms in those businesses, and I have no desire to join them in that market. Oasis Digital doesn&#8217;t offer contract-to-hire, it doesn&#8217;t charge a percentage of a hire&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/helping-our-customers-hire</link>
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		<title>SaaS: The Business Model – Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Feb. 27 at St. Louis Innovation Camp 2010, I gave a talk on the SaaS business model. I posted the slides, handout, audio, and transcript soon thereafter. Here, finally, is a video of the 44-minute-long talk. Why did it take over three months to get online? Read on below.

This is an x.264 video, shown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/saas-video</link>
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		<title>Take a Strategic Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is yet another story that I’ve told dozens of time to individual and groups, and now finally written down. Here is a short video talk:

As usual, the vimeo page offers it for HTML5, non-Flash platforms like the iPad.
Back in 2004 I co-founded Mobile Workforce Management, a vertical market SaaS firm. For the first 6+ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/strategic-vacation</link>
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		<title>Standing Desk Experiment and Experiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Round 1, 2007
Back in 2007 I read a few articles about the merits of stand-up desks, in regards to health and productivity. According to the New York Times and other sources, standing desks have been not quite common, but neither terribly uncommon, for many years. Sitting all the time is apparently quite unhealthy. Famously, Donald [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/standing-desk</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Dreaming of a Better Social Media Client</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big social media guy. I&#8217;m certaintly not a social media consultant, nor a maven. I never used MySpace at all, and I was not among the first to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. But I do find all of those useful to keep in touch with a bunch of people using all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/better-social-media-client</link>
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		<title>The Prolog Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve told this story in person dozens of times, it&#8217;s time to write it down and share it here. I&#8217;ve again experimentally recorded a video version (below), which you can view on a non-Flash device here.

I know a little Prolog, which I learned in college &#8211; just enough to be dangerous. Armed with that, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/the-prolog-story</link>
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		<title>When Will It Ship? Estimates and Promises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying something new with this post: a short video presentation of approximately the same content.

This is a Vimeo video, embedded as Flash. You can go over to Vimeo to watch it with HTML5-video devices like an iPad. I expect to offer better quality and more options as I learn more.
Here is an area of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/estimates-and-promises</link>
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		<title>Data Center (Cloud) Cost Efficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I mentioned James Hamilton’s comments on the micro-server trend. Today I came across a talk he gave at MIX10 in which he presented excellent real-world large-scale data, with insightful analysis, about the cost efficiency of data centers.  (Here is a direct MP4 download, suitable for viewing across more platforms.)
I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/cloud-cost-efficiency</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re hiring a NON-developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Oasis Digital, we are in the (job) market for our first non-developer, non-project-manager, non-service-delivery-focussed full-time team member. The job post is on the Oasis Digital site; I thought I&#8217;d write about a bit more about the story here.
Part of the challenge of running a software development consulting firm, is the tension between:
1) Focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/hiring-non-developer</link>
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		<title>The Much-Discussed Apple iPhone 4.0 beta TOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this in April 2010, Apple has just released a beta iPhone 4.0 SDK with the following rather alarming addition to the legal terms (at least according to many web sites; I haven&#8217;t seen it directly from Apple yet):
3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/apple-iphone-tos</link>
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		<title>Apple, Cut That Cord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I think back to opening up my new iPad, two things stand out. First, the product packaging is delightfully minimal. It does not even contain media with the iTunes software, instead explaining that the first step is to download iTunes.

Second, a new iPad does not work at all until syncing it with a PC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kylecordes.com/2010/ipad-cut-that-cord</link>
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