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Bar Camp Chicago
I just got home from Bar Camp Chicago and it was awesome. Two days of geeky topics. On Saturday I: Met two dozen geeks, so less than half the people there. Attended a presentation on mobile devices,...
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ChiPy at Google
I had a great time last night at the ChiPy meeting last night that was held at Google’s Chicago office. I suspect a lot of people turned up just to see the venue: usually ChiPy gets 15-20 people but...
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344 Books Must Go
Over the last couple years I’ve been reducing the amount of stuff I own*, and now it’s time for most of the books to go. I’m giving away 344 books, three-quarters of my book collection, free to any...
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Freshwater Live and TechCoffee
Last night I went to the invite-only Freshwater Live, a meeting for entrepreneurs of all experience levels put on by Freshwater Venture. FV is a neat blog that profiles Chicago tech companies and is...
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One Laptop Per Chicago
ChiPy held our largest meeting yet at Google (again) last night, so here’s a linkriffic post about it. Feihong Hsu presented lessons learned on doing Unicode in Python. I love hearing real-world...
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Acceptable Errors
I really liked Adrian Holovaty’s suggestion that Chicago stop trying to be the Bay Area and focus on bootstrapping. Chicago will always be an also-ran as long as it’s running someone else’s race. The...
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