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“This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], I think, is starting to leave very fast,” Daher said. “Companies like ours, where we become an extension of a customer’s IT to support the business — that’s the approach, and we have to understand we are that business.” Also in the piece: plenty if good thoughts in the evolving role and opportunity for VAR/channel types.

Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without having to remember the pop culture and in-jokes of a bunch of 30 something nerds.

And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without having to remember the pop culture and in-jokes of a bunch of 30 something nerds.

And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without having to remember the pop culture and in-jokes of a bunch of 30 something nerds.

I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my laptop into a web server and coding machine, just the same as where I hosted the toys and tools that I wrote. This is what the future was going to be like. And then it didn’t happen. Code is fragile because APIs keep changing and nobody cares about scripting anymore.

I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my laptop into a web server and coding machine, just the same as where I hosted the toys and tools that I wrote. This is what the future was going to be like. And then it didn’t happen. Code is fragile because APIs keep changing and nobody cares about scripting anymore.

I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my laptop into a web server and coding machine, just the same as where I hosted the toys and tools that I wrote. This is what the future was going to be like. And then it didn’t happen. Code is fragile because APIs keep changing and nobody cares about scripting anymore.