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February 05, 2009
iPhone App for EC2
direct thought has announced that they are working on an iPhone app for EC2. Screen shots look pretty promising; can’t wait for it to be released.
Posted by davehod at 04:57 PM | Comments (1)
Sign Of The Times
Another data point/observation on the current state of things, courtesy of Jason Calacanis' latest [Jason] post (email only, sorry no link)
We're interviewing for sales people in Los Angeles right now andI'm shocked at the quality level of folks on the market. Tylerinterview 30 folks and I got to sit down with the top 12. Of those 12I would say 10 were hires. Of those ten half of them were the kind offolks that just don't normally come on the market (you know, the folksthat are recruited from job to job). It was totally shocking for me.In 15 years of being an entrepreneur I've never such a dense pool ofsuch of talented people--something is VERY wrong with out economy.Also, the last two trips/four times I've been in the airport it's beena ghost town. Very strange to go from long lines and packed flights toshort lines and people laying across the isle sleeping.
2002 was something like this - lots of high quality people available. The contrarian in me says this might be a good time to start a business.
Here's hoping to 2010 is better ...
Posted by davehod at 10:23 AM | Comments (0)
February 02, 2009
Facebook Revs FBJS
Facebook has announced they are releasing a “major update” to FBJS (Facebook JavaScript) named FBJS2. The current version uses a number of non-standard modifications to the languages that increase the learning curve (and debugging) unnecessarily.
For example, setting the height and width of a graphic element currently works something like this:
this.setStyle({width:90px, height: 20px});
FBJS2 will allow more standard nomenclature, such as this:
this.style.width=90px;
this.style.height=20px;
Much easier to read/write/debug.
Posted by davehod at 04:52 PM | Comments (0)