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Here is a brute force approach to getting closer to 508 compliance, if you only have dev resources and don’t have strong UX resources to sort this out for you. Use the following online testing tools:

Hera http://www.sidar.org/hera/ fae http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/ AChecker http://achecker.ca/checker/ Cynthia http://www.cynthiasays.com/mynewtester/cynthia.exe

Hera and fae give good actionable feedback (IMO), and I like [...]

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My friend, Rich Rygg of HipGeo (and co-inventor of the Pop-Up Ad), asked me which are the best job boards to use when hiring people in Los Angeles and Southern California. That’s not quite the right question, as hiring is more of a process than anything else. To address his question, I put together an [...]

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I have extensive experience growing and nurturing UX within organizations and building UX teams. The most successful companies that I have built have *always* had a strong UX role in them. I view this position as critical to launching a killer product.

UX is best done by applying a Behavior-Structure-Presentation triangle (see diagram above) to the [...]

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Florian Drescher is hosting another cloud training session. I did this before and think he’s a great teacher. I would go again, but I am going to Startup Weekend LA (same weekend). The cost is $20. Q Connects is in the Howard Hughes complex.

Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2

This course [...]

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Wearable computing: Keyboard input via a glove – awesome!

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I meet a lot of startups that are looking for that perfect developer who will buy into their vision (aka “drink the KoolAid”) and work for equity (i.e. “for free”). Well, that’s not going to happen. I mean it can…but that’s like winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning – you can’t plan for [...]

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How Facebook Ships Code

On January 19, 2011 By

I came an interesting article about Facebook’s internal development operations. It’s a great read.

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This is a really good read. Joey chaired the VC panel at this year’s CES. Here is the panel info: Digital Hollywood Events at CES

January 5-7, 2011
Friday, January 7th
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Track II – DH10 – Digital Hollywood
Venture Funding, Investment & [...]

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