Andre’s Blog

October 29th, 2006

• Valhalla Powdercats – catskiing, snowcat skiing, cat skiing, heli skiing

  looks like good terrain. tree skking and standby rates from $259/day in low season!

  (tags: catskiing valhalla ski powder kootenays)

• Cat Skiing Powder Adventures – BC Cat Skiing & Snowboarding – Snowcat Powder Skiing – Retallack Resort & Alpine Adventures

  looks like great terrain. decent rates.

  (tags: catskiing kootenays retallack)

• Baldface Lodge Snowcat Skiing – British Columbia, Canada

  looks like a great lodge. heard the terrain is great. seems a bit pricier than some of the others.

  (tags: backcountry bc powder ski catskiing baldface)

• The best powder skiing, snow cat skiing and snowboarding is at Monashee Powder Snowcats in BC , Canada

  terrain looks mellow. not sure if they have standby. decent rates starting at 350/day with accom and food.

  (tags: catskiing powder ski monasshepowder)

• Wildhorse Snowcat Skiing & Powder Mining Co.

  hard to tell what the terrain is like, but could be really cheap if you have 12 people;-) ~$210/day

  (tags: catskiing wildhorse ski powder kootenays)

• Highland Powder Skiing, Snowcat Skiing and Snowboarding

  pricier, doesn’t seem to have standby rates. terrain looks pretty good though.

  (tags: catskiing highlandpowder ski powder selkirk)

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October 28th, 2006

• GigaVox Media, Inc. » The Levelator™

  some tool for podcasts from jake the snake. alright bud.

  (tags: podcast technology todo software howto free)

• Sportsyndicator.com – Home

  ad network targeted to the sporting industry. interesting model, similar to john battelle’s federated media i suppose. but this is like google ads for sports geeks as opposed to blog geeks. have to try it on doglotion.com, reports to have higher cpm th

  (tags: ad adwords syndication internet cpm)

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October 27th, 2006

• Amazon.com: Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications: Books: David Johnson,Alexei White,Andre Charland

  Enterprise Ajax, the book. By the same people (Dave, Alexei, Andre) who do the podcast;-)

  (tags: enterpriseajax ajax book prenticehall performance programming andrecharland davejohnson alexeiwhite)

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October 25th, 2006

• MIT World » : Innovation Through Design Thinking

  design thinking and product development

  (tags: design designthinking ideation ideo prototype)

• clickdensity – website heat maps for usability and information architecture

  click tracking and usability tool for websites.

  (tags: clickdensity usability heatmap ia design)

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October 24th, 2006

• Kit Deslauriers Skied Everest?

  Kit Deslaurier first women to ski off the summit of mt everest! Wow. Crazy.

  (tags: mteverest everest ski mountaineer kitdeslauriers deslauriers)

• FastMail: fast, professional email services with web, SMTP, POP & IMAP access

  Recommended by Matt Mackenzie.

  (tags: free domain hosting office tools)

• Article about exec dashboards

  An area ripe for Ajax innovation:)

  (tags: ajax dashboard bi analytics data usecases)

• Business Intelligence Software Solution – NetSuite Interactive Dashboard View

  not bad…but could be a lot better.

  (tags: dashboard ajax management software usability ui netsuite)

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October 23rd, 2006

• Java Entrepreneur: Ajax and Flex2 Together With Nitobi

  (tags: ajax java blog media flex)

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October 22nd, 2006

• Enterprise Ajax Podcast 15 – OpenAjax, AjaxWorld, Testing

  (tags: ajaxworld ajaxworld2006 openajax openajaxalliance testing ajax nitobi debugging)

• webdu: Call For Papers webDU 2007 (formerly MXDU)

  Mesh says this is a must see conference. I’m going to try to get an abstract in.

  (tags: web webdev webdesign australia flash ajax design ria conference todo)

• Looks Good Works Well: Designing a Component

  Great article on how to design and develop components by Bill Scott! Thanks Bill, great post!

  (tags: component design programming ria widgets ajax yui billscott)

• IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines

  IBM’s blogging policy. I’ll use this in my blogging for business talk at massive.

  (tags: blog blogging marketing communication personal ibm corporate massive)

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October 21st, 2006

• Delicious Library

  barcode scanning and book cataloging from a laptop with webcam (isignt) or bluetooth scanner. nice looking product and website.

  (tags: barcode scan mac library catalog deliciouslibrary)

• Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Media Temple Crushes Shared Hosting

  The basic $20 package includes 100 GB of storage, 1 TB of bandwidth and up to 100 individual sites. – Need I say more…

  (tags: grid startup webservices media hosting mediatemple server)

• globeandmail.com: Drive-by town becoming destination

  (tags: squamish whistler vancouver bc realestate business growth)

• dzone.com – fresh links for developers

  Interesting portal for programming topics.

  (tags: programming portal development code web2.0 community)

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October 19th, 2006

• Nitobi Ajax Components Now With ColdFusion Support

  Thanks for the post Ben!

  (tags: ajax nitobi coldfusion grid combobox benforta)

• Nitobi AJAX Components for ColdFusion @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE

  Rob Gonda put up a nice post about our coldfusion ajax support.

  (tags: coldfusion syscon ajax nitobi components robgonda ajaxworld)

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October 18th, 2006

• Web 2.0 – Web2.0List

  (tags: events eventmanagement)

• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Creative Commons + Flickr = 22 Million Sharable Photos | PBS

  Great articel on creative commons. Includes KK and Bryght! Nice work guys!

  (tags: cc creativecommons kk kriskrug bryght flickr photo)

• Oracle Developer Tools Roamap

  Interesting marketing spin on making it easier to build Web2.0 interfaces…so large fonts, rounded corners and gradients? A good overview of Oracle dev though.

  (tags: oracle adf jdeveloper ajax components ide jsf java)

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