MN Company Lets You Run Windows Apps on a Mac – the Easy Way

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They say the best blogging is about story-telling. So, let me tell you one of mine -- how I came to write this post. First, some background: I run a Windows-free environment, and have for a long time. I put in my time with "Windoz" many years ago, and quickly left it … [Read more...]

The Joy of Infiltration Champions Open Game Development

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The mind of Zach Johnson is an interesting place. While much of it remains unexplored it's filled with plenty of ideas, projects and fun. We last talked with Zach about Scribbls, a great site where doodles can give birth to hilarious results that he and his Watermelon Sauce … [Read more...]

ReliaCloud Releases Partner Program

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ReliaCloud, our own local (but national) cloud computing infrastructure company, has launched a full fledged channel program centered on their enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing offering. According to Reliacloud, the five year growth … [Read more...]

MinneSpark Has $1,000 (Potentially) For You

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What could you do with $1,000 for your best idea? Could you turn it into a scalable business? Let’s find out! MinneSpark will award 1 to n grants of $1,000 to Minnesota-based teams who demonstrate to their trustees the ability to take that money and turn it into … [Read more...]

‘The New Industrial Revolution’ and Minnesota

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I absolutely love it when my new WIRED magazine shows up in the mail.  Hey, I read as much as the next guy online (on my little 13" Macbook screen, or my iPhone), but I still love excellence in print -- good ol' ink on dead trees. And WIRED continues to stand out in this … [Read more...]

Web Design Workshop/Seminar for Creatives

If you're a designer creating websites, web applications are someone working with a developer on a project or initiative, then this workshop and seminar will empower you with the things you should know before you design your first website; what the content management system … [Read more...]

Microsoft Launches Expression 3 & Sketchflow

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Saw a tweet yesterday from my buddy, Microsoft's Doug Olson, that said, "Getting ready for a very exciting day tomorrow -- the culmination of why I am working at Microsoft." He was either finally getting a free Zune, he'd completed that Redmond, WA to White Bear Lake, MN fun … [Read more...]

Best Buy at Google I/O

Best Buy's Ben Hedrington and Curtis Thompson were out at Google I/O (Google's developer conference held May 27 - 28, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco) and were grabbed on the floor at "The Developer Sandbox" to briefly describe how Best Buy is leveraging the Google … [Read more...]

Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

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Anyone born in 1978, and now in their early thirties, never knew a time when there weren't mainstream personal computers. For the most part, those who entered this world in the late 1980's (and are in their twenties like my daughter), haven't lived in a time when PC's … [Read more...]

Oracle Drinks Up Sun: MySQL Questions Remain…

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...Like is LAMP now LAMOP? I’m personally aware of over 40 projects here in flyover country that are not only leveraging -- but are wholly reliant on -- MySQL. To make matters worse (and admittedly selfish on my part) our company uses MySQL across all our web … [Read more...]