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What Does the European Accessibility Act Mean for Developers?

by Hassan Djirdeh March 05, 2025 5 min read

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Cloud Computing Dodged a Legal Bullet

If you and I were at a local Starbucks drinking coffee and plotted a criminal act (say robbing a bank), would Starbucks be liable? Is Starbucks a co-conspirator since they provided a platform for us to plan our illegal act? In short, no. If you and I email back and fourth about that same criminal activity, is GMail/your ISP liable? In short, no. If we do rob the bank and FexEx someone the contraband, is FedEx liable? In short, no. If I illegally download MP3 music and upload it to Amazon Cloud Storage, Microsoft Skydrive, Dropbox, or some other similar service, are they liable? A judge last week...

by Steve Forte
May 27, 2021 2 min read Share
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Making the world a better place. One task at a time.

Yesterday I read an excellent blog post by Chris Dixon: http://cdixon.org/2011/08/28/do-you-want-to-sell-sugar-water-or-do-you-want-to-change-the-world/ It reminded me of something I am seeing too often when I talk to people, especially younger guys who want to be entrepreneurs. I get the feeling that they put a value only on big ideas, big discoveries, big success stories. Everyone wants to change the world and if they can’t, it is seen as a massive failure. People want to be like Steve Jobs – wake up, imagine something, make it a smashing success and change the lives of billions of people. I might be wrong, but I don’t think...

by Vassil Terziev
May 27, 2021 4 min read Share
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Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team - Part 3

(This is a continuation of Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team Part 1 and Part 2) Wow.. lots to talk about… here is the 3rd post in the series describing some of the things we do on the TeamPulse team. Sprint Reviews At the end of each 2 week iteration the teams host a number of sprint reviews. In reality, there were two sprint reviews each sprint – one in Bulgaria and one in Winnipeg. The teams invited everyone they could to these meetings. It is really important for us to directly engage other product teams within ...

by Joel Semeniuk
May 27, 2021 8 min read Share
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St. Louis Day of .NET Another Major Success

[Cross posted from http://www.skimedic.com/blog] The 4th annual St. Louis Day(s) of .NET built on the previous years successes and once again delivered an amazing show. Held at the beautiful Ameristar Casino and Resort in St. Charles, Missouri. This year, the conference maxed out the capacity of the conference center (over 800 people attended the show!) Hats off to Jeff Fattic, Scott Spradlin, and Kevin Grossnicklaus and the scores (yes I mean scores) of other volunteers that made this event possible. I also have to give props to their spouses, children, friends, and co-workers, since the time commitment to run such a large event is...

by Phil Japikse
May 27, 2021 2 min read Share
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The LOB Chronicles Episode 4: Let's Talk Data (Access)

In this episode we are taking a step back from our UX and UI discussions to focus a bit more on the data that will drive our application. Now that we understand the typical end user better and have translated this knowledge into something more concrete from a development standpoint, one of the next steps is to tie these views and navigation paths to some concrete data that will serve as the backend of our application. After all, a great CRM needs to efficiently handle large volumes of data to maintain customer information as well as alert us of potential deals that are ready...

by Evan Hutnick
May 27, 2021 4 min read Share