Computer Science has a tendency to spin in circles. Paradigms are like the ocean tide. What started with mainframes went to distributed terminals. Then distributed terminals became personal computers. Then PCs became smart clients and powerful PCs servers. Finally, the internet and the web browser transform our PCs into thin, […]
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there and back again: client based web apps
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Academics · Work · Technology
ready to press go
February 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
It’s difficult when the ideas in your head make perfect sense but when they’re communicated with others they whimper and die quiet deaths. Jobs and Wozniak must have really gotten some incredible stares when they were toting around the first apple prototype to banks and investors. I have to believe there were points where either […]
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keeping costs down
January 27th, 2006 · No Comments
One of the keys to starting-up is to do things with as low of costs as possible. “Keep costs down”, “don’t spend money”, “improvise” they say. How do you do it, though? How do you find a space to work, which you can call home, that is comfortable, energizing, and respectable? […]
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and so it begins…
January 24th, 2006 · No Comments
Welcome to the official blog of Midsummer Studios. We’re a small software start-up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and are focused on creating interesting tools you can actually use. This blog will be used for discussing what’s on our minds at any given time usually related to the life of a small start-up.
Some of you […]
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