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Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report - December 2, 2008

By Michael ⋅ December 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Our meetup report this month is over at the Gui.net Magazine at gui.magazines.me.
Going through the pages once again - it has been up for two or three… or is it five or six… let’s just say it has been a week now [dates on the articles are still forthcoming] - I can see it is […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report - November 4, 2008

By Michael ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We didn’t make it to this MeetUp this time, first we have missed in several months. Sucks. We didn’t make it for several reasons. It was election night and wanted to spend it with family. And it was in Denver instead of Boulder. And we are knee deep in bugtrocities trying to get magazines.me ready […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report - September 2, 2008

By Michael ⋅ September 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Another month, another Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup. This month was the least crowded BDNTM I’ve been to, there may have even been an empty seat or two.
Announcements
There is a DEMO Conference coming up. According to PC World “a gathering of venture capitalists and corporate high-tech investors watch as demonstrators are present their efforts at […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report - August 6, 2008

By Michael ⋅ August 6, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

This month at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup here at the Law Center on the C.U. campus, it was an overflow crowd watching 6 presentations by companies, all of whom were also showing at TechStars, one from TechStars 2007 and the rest from 2008.
This was this MeetUp’s two-year anniversary. It now has a LinkedIn […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report June 3, 2008

By Michael ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Another month, another MeetUp. It is nice to be able to share my excitement about all the exciting things happening on the net with 300 or so other people for an hour and a half every month.
This is the time of year when it is too warm for buildings to run heat and too cool […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report May,6 2008

By Michael ⋅ May 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This month’s New Tech MeetUp played to another overflow crowd. It seemed to start closer to 6:00 this time, as opposed to 6:20 last month - or maybe it was just that I had decided to come later, arriving closer to 5 minutes early instead of 15 minutes early.
Before the meeting there was held a […]

The family that ‘user tests’ together…

By Michael ⋅ April 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

… is a lot more effective than stakeholders that user test together.
At least, that is our recent experience after 3 decades of ‘user testing’ with stakeholders (including target end-users).
Perhaps it is because they had no previous experience with the app. Or perhaps it was because they weren’t trying overly hard to help… or hinder. They […]

The CSS Paradigm

By Michael ⋅ April 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

CSS has been on my mind lately, in a big way [when you see our next product, you will understand why :-)]
We have all the books: The Eric Meyer books, Zen of CSS Design, etc. etc. and last and best Transcending CSS [best because it is the least evangelical].
I have yet to hear one good […]

The Guerrilla Methodology: Approaching the Situation

By Michael ⋅ April 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The first step is to study the situation on the ground.
How many processes are currently in place. Which ones have been successful? Why? Which ones have failed? Why?
It has been traditional to blame the management and/or software staff for any and all failures - holding the methodological processes sacrosanct. Properly applied, They Can Not […]

Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup Report April 1, 2008

By Michael ⋅ April 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

With a date like April 1, right there in the title, just how serious can this be. But it wasn’t all fun and games.
This was the first meetup that Neli and I attended. Previously, I’d miss yet another meeting and I would poke around on the net looking for a writeup about what happened, what […]

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