Utah Open Source Conference: Aug 28-30 at SLCC Redwood

Utah Open Source Conference
Thursday August 28, 2008 - Saturday August 30, 2008
Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus
4600 S Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130
Website: http://2008.utosc.com
The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus from August 28 - 30, 2008.
The Salt Lake Community College Computer Science department [...]

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Calendar: Utah Tech Spotlight — DOBA

Take a breather Thursday and go check out Doba, courtesy of the jockeys over at TwelveHorses. P.S. Don’t forget that Doba is hosting Guy Kawasaki in a few weeks:
“Not only has Jeremy been very successful in building his company here in Utah (currently ranked the 23rd fastest growing privately held business in the Nation), [...]

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hCard Embedded in New Email Signature

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I updated my work email signature and felt a little saucy and embedded my hCard information right into the HTML. (Yes, the Unix users out there who only read plain-text emails won’t see it).
hCard is a microformat, a way to encode certain pieces of human-readable information with machine-readable meta-data to allow computers and [...]

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LinkedIN: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Block You’

Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health.
Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected.  I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the pack… [...]

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EVENT: Speaking on Mid-Career Development at PLUG Wed. 8-7

Wednesday this week, I am speaking on Mid-Career Development at the Provo Linux User’s Group, which meets at United Online in Orem (directions, etc).

Date: Wednesday Aug 8, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: United Online
PLUG:
This month we have a unique guest presenter coming to PLUG. Robert Merrill from SOS Technical is coming to address the group. Robert is [...]

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Calendar: CTO Breakfast Thursday in Provo

Just got this note from Phil Windley re: the monthly CTO Breakfast:
Just a reminder that we’ll hold the May CTO breakfast this coming Thursday at 8am. We’re in the usual place–the Novell cafeteria. Some of you are still holding out because it seems so far away, but give it a chance. It’s [...]

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Now Hiring… Right Now!… Now! Now!

Had your “Now Hiring” sign up for a while? You’re not the only one…

Utah’s job growth rate stays ahead of nation
State is pulling in workers from around the country
By Lesley Mitchell The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/17/2007 11:35:32 PM MDT
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Software for Starving Students 2007.01 Released

The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at: http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html — Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). They have best-in-class programs gathered onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows).
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Salary.com Not Profitable

As C.M. Russell relates, have we learned nothing from Web 1.0?
Salary.com Not Profitable
“We have not been profitable since our inception, and we may not become profitable,” Salary.com says in its IPO prospectus. On the one hand, that’s boilerplate due-diligence text for Securities and Exchange Commission filings. On the other, it’s exactly the kind [...]

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Welcome to the (Tag) Jungle

Cue up the Guns ‘N’ Roses in your music player, as TagJungle crept stealthily out of beta sometime late last week.
The site, which works hard to bring relevancy to the blogosphere, has a clean implementation and a nice ajaxy interface. Simple to use and full of good feeds and tools, the site looks like [...]

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