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RESTful Documentation

February 20th, 2008 · Comments

As promised (but late as a post), we released iofy’s RESTful documentation. This is extremely exciting for both our development and management teams. We now have an open account management API enabling others to offer iofy’s account management and access to a customer’s digital libraries of downloaded audiobooks.
I’m proud of this accomplishment.
The iofy RESTful API [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Managing · Software Development · Web Services · iofy

iofy account management - Really Simple Development

February 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

 

My dev team is prepping the release of our REST / RSS / JavaScript based account management this week. It marks the completion of building, then harnessing, a suite of RESTful RSS 2.0 feed based web services. The idea has been “avoid people wasting time, working on stuff they suck at focus developers on code [...]

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Tags: Hiring · Managing · Software Development · Web Services · iofy

Brain-drain prediction due to asian success

February 13th, 2008 · Comments

I’m reading more and more about IT in Asia having trouble retaining technically competent employees. Salaries are growing to impressive levels. In Singapore, salaries are closing in on Silicon Valley levels. With the present competition for talent growth in that country, salaries will soon be greater there.
<prediction>We won’t be looking at an all-out brain-drain, but with the present economic climate in the US and the [...]

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Tags: Hiring · Managing · Prediction · Software Development