Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s are all the rage right now…and for good reason. But they don’t seem to make decent money…or often any money. Many of them follow the ‘freemium’ business model by giving away their course content …
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Most marketers I’ve come across over the years have a certain swagger to them. I don’t want to say that they think they’re better than other people, but there’s definitely a sort of “All income flows from me” kind of …
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Well, I’ve done it…I’ve finally folded to peer pressure and decided to learn the Ruby programming language and…Rails too…I suppose. I’ve railed (no pun intended) against it for a few years now simply because I’m absolutely positive that it’s just …
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I was digging through a box of old stuff the other day and I came across my very first programming book. I couldn’t believe that I still had the thing. It instantly sent me tumbling down memory lane… Back when …
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For the last few days it’s been like 110 degrees outside here in Chicago. Since it’s entirely too hot to do anything outside, I thought I’d learn something new. After several very intense minutes of soul searching 😛 I decided …
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When I was in high school our library got a new computer lab. By “computer lab” I mean like 10 old computers networked together (but not connected to the Internet because there wasn’t really one yet) stuck in a tiny …
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