Is an MBA Worth the Cost?

August 3, 2011

If you look at the cost vs. benefit, MBAs may be a very big waste of money.

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Guatemala’s City Aquarium

July 18, 2011

My brother wrote about his experience at the Guatemala City Aquarium. I thought the restaurant where each table has their own soda fountain is an interesting idea, but probably not something we’ll see in America any time soon.

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Social Networks Evaporation

July 18, 2011

This post about The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a fascinating look at how social networks retain or lose members.

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Sonar Installation Problems

July 16, 2011

I ran into a bunch of problems getting Sonar installed in Tomcat 6 as a war file.  It turns out I just didn’t understand the installation process.  To install Sonar as a war, you have to download it, unzip it, build the war using a script, and then deploy the war file.  During the period [...]

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Interesting News

June 11, 2011

Russian banks are experimenting with adding document scanners, fingerprint readers and even lie detectors to their ATM machines in order to allow them to do things like take loan applications. The creator of Mad Libs, Leonard Stern, died at age 88 on Tuesday.  The idea was born out of trying to overcome writers block while [...]

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Leadership Quote

June 9, 2011

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln This is one of my favorite leadership quotes.  Lincoln had an incredible understanding of human nature and it was very evident in his leadership style.

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Google Apps & Android

June 2, 2011

The paid version of Google apps gives you some incredible tools to manage and secure mobile phones at a much lower cost than Blackberry server.

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Voice Mail Notifications Won’t Go Away

May 29, 2011

I have a Nexus S from Sprint and set it up with Google Voice.  Unfortunately when I was getting Google Voice set up, I tried calling my number and leaving a message from another phone.  This voice mail got put on Sprint’s voice mail system.  When I switched over to Google Voice, my Sprint voice [...]

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Lucene MoreLikeThis Example Code

May 26, 2011

I was recently working on a simple application where the user will enter famous quotations.  Obviously we want to avoid duplicates so I needed a way to check for quotations that were substantially similar before a new quote was added to the database. The idea was to show the top 5 most similar quotes before letting the [...]

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Nexus S 4G and Google Apps

May 26, 2011

I recently switched phones to the Nexus S 4G. (Take a look at my detailed Nexus S Review.) I’ve been pretty impressed with how well the Nexus S integrates with Google Apps.  I suppose this is expected because it is a Google phone, but experience tells me that just because a company makes a device [...]

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Non-profit Donations Acceptance

May 22, 2011

My brother wrote up a nice post about the different online donation options he has looked at using for his non-profit. In addition to the ones he mentioned, Google Checkout is another one worth considering.

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Opposite of a Pond

May 21, 2011
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A pond is a pool of water surrounded by land.  So this must be the opposite–an island of land surrounded by water.  Or maybe this is just a small model of Holland.

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Sprint & Google Voice Integration Error

May 19, 2011
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I recently bought a Nexus S 4G and I’m trying to use the Sprint/Google Voice integration, but the following error keeps popping up. We have a problem Sorry, there was a problem determining your eligibility for a Sprint integrated account. Please try again at a later time. It looks like this might mean several different [...]

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A Few Management Quotes

April 5, 2011

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ~ Warren Buffet I love this management quote from Warren Buffet.  You can’t manage your way out of bad economics.  The truly brilliant management team knows this [...]

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Harvard Online Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

March 15, 2011
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I’ve seen a lot of questions recently by programmers on Slashdot, Reddit and Stack Overflow basically asking: I’m writing code, but I’m not very good.  What can I do to change that? For people in that position who already have a bachelors degree (but not necessarily in software engineering or CS), I’d suggest a little [...]

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Harder to make a mistake

March 13, 2011

Facebook had tournament called their Hacker Cup where competitors tried to solve a series of problems in two hours.  Interestingly most of the competitors programmed in C++.  However Petr Mitrichev who one used Java.  When asked why he used Java, he said: It’s harder to make a mistake in Java. I think a lot of programmers [...]

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