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Annual “Tech Visa” lottery leaves half of applicants disappointed

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service ran its annual selection process to distribute the quota of 85,000 high-skilled worker visas among over 172,000 applicants in April.  Tech firms who rely on the H-1B visa category are finding this bottleneck in the labor market increasingly difficult to manage and appear to be developing strategies for…

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Added by John Robert Egan on May 13, 2014 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

Scaling the Walls: A Look Back at How the Community Broke Into a Closed System

While looking through some old code, I found my first iOS projects that I did while I was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The earliest of which goes back to November of 2008, which was 4 months or so after the App Store opened its doors (according to Wikipedia). Since then I had developed 3 apps (two ended up in the App Store), the last of which I worked on in 2010.

Whenever…

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Added by George Lee on May 2, 2014 at 9:56am — No Comments

Giving Your Pitch - Getting Support

Have an idea to pitch? The time is now.

You have great ideas.  You need support for your great ideas.  Here are two upcoming events you don't want to miss:

Maui Tech Night

The centerpiece of the event is an investor pitch contest, where five of the most promising…
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Added by Bobbi Carter on April 30, 2014 at 1:12pm — No Comments

What Happened to Sopogy?

I just read that Sopogy shut down. I am surprised because I thought it was the next big thing for Hawaii with an imminent IPO. Any idea what happened?

Added by John on April 27, 2014 at 2:27pm — 1 Comment

In Search of One Digital Marketing Platform to Unite Them All

One of the key challenges for online marketers is coordinating effectively the wide range of digital channels for outreach and the fragmented and siloed reporting these channels generate. From my recent research of mobile marketing tools and platform vendors, the situation is improving for marketers -- although it is far from completely resolved.



Starting from a mobile tool-set such as SMS/MMS and voice,…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on April 18, 2014 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Mobile First, Content First

Mobile first -- the principle of approaching digital design from mobile form factors first, then accommodating larger form factors afterwards -- is a buzz term. It turns on its head the old status quo of designing for desktops primarily, with mobile as an afterthought. The term trips glibly off tongues everywhere now, but don’t scoff at its current trendiness. You might miss the fact that it’s a god-send to content strategists and UX designers.…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on April 1, 2014 at 5:17pm — 1 Comment

7 Funnel Secrets to Draw Your Very Best Clients

NO FOOLING! April 1st. For the first time I'm going to lay out my "7 Funnel Secrets to Draw Your Very Best Clients" at the Hawaii Internet Marketers Association next week.

Space is limited so save your spot here: http://bitly.com/1dtOBT8…

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Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on March 25, 2014 at 2:29pm — No Comments

A pretty neat programming interview question

Added by Leo D on March 24, 2014 at 10:03pm — 1 Comment

The Next Killer App

I was twirling the thought of Chaum's Protocol in my head, its intricacies filling the gaps between my synapses. Impressed by its cryptographic properties, I could not at the same time escape a nagging sensation in another part of my brain: DigiCash.... is ... tooooo..... faaaar... ahead...  of…

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Added by Joseph Lui on March 22, 2014 at 1:30pm — 7 Comments

Sequencing computations in Javascript

Sequencing computations in Javascript

Given any sequence of simple assignment statements concluded by a return statement, we can view the whole sequence

as a function that executes the first statement,

and then executes and returns a function that contains the rest of the statements.

For example, this sequence of two statements, which results in 6,



x = 3;

2*x;

=>

6

can be re-written as:



(function(x){

return…
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Added by Leo D on March 20, 2014 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

Global Windows Azure Bootcamp

Save the date! Join us on Saturday, March 29th, for the Global Windows Azure Boot Camp! This year, you can join thousands of friends online by participating in this Global Event and support cutting edge diabetes research. The 2014 event will be hosting a globally distributed lab in which attendees of the event will deploy virtual machines in Windows Azure which will help analyze data needed for diabetes research.

This event is geared towards…

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Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on March 19, 2014 at 9:28am — No Comments

Secure Your Digital Life

We are living in an era where we store personal and private information digitally on our smartphones, laptops and on “the cloud”. Malicious entities, and even government entities are always looking for ways to get to that information.  You need to take extra steps to ensure your life stays private. Here are some measures you can take to help ensure that:

Use encryption everywhere

Encrypt data on your computer’s hard drive by using file encryption programs, such…

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Added by Daniel Nishimura on March 17, 2014 at 4:34pm — 4 Comments

Adobe Creative Cloud Experience - Alternatives?

About a year ago Adobe announced that it would be ending their Creative Suite offering, rebranding their applications under the Creative Cloud. Customers would no longer be able to pay once for most of the main Adobe software and use it forever.  Instead they now need to pay monthly and will no longer be able to use the software if they stop paying.  I don’t use Adobe software extensively, but there are times when I need to so I decided to try it out for a year using their…

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Added by Douglas Ching on March 17, 2014 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Affordable CRMs That Work for Startups and Small Businesses

Has your company grown to the point that it needs some structure and organization around its sales processes? Do your existing ad-hoc collection of online tools not cut it anymore for supporting sustained outreach to clients and closing deals? I recently found myself helping a growing startup wade through the sea of customer relationship management (CRM) tools online to narrow in on a few that fit its needs and thought I would share some of my…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on March 13, 2014 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

Testimony Needed in Support of Bill to fund Kakaʻako Innovation Hub

Posted on behalf of HTDC:

HTDC is again looking for your immediate SUPPORT

Testimony Filing Deadline: Monday, March 17 @ 9:00 A.M.

The State Budget Bill which was passed through the House Committee on…

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Added by Mika Leuck on March 13, 2014 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Improving Front-end Development with Yeoman

 

The front-end web stack has a plethora of tools for developing robust, scalable applications. Whether it's UI frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap, front-end MVC frameworks like Angular, Backbone, or Ember, or production tools like RequireJS, SASS, or JSHint. The only problem is, how do you choose which technologies to go with? And once you figure that out, you still need to string them all together, managing dependencies and configuration files, etc. You…

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Added by Mike King on March 13, 2014 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Does the Tech Industry Have a Young vs. Old Problem?

There's a fascinating story just published on The New York Times, "Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem," that explores the many facets of the age divide in the heart of America's tech industry. Written by a Comp Sci graduate student with a few internships at hot new Silicon Valley startups under his belt, the article touches on many aspects of the new guard/old guard divide in an industry…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on March 12, 2014 at 5:34pm — No Comments

25 Website Must-Haves

Need to know what it takes to have a great website that drives visitors, leads and revenue? Try our free 52-page guide to having a killer website. You'll learn how to use SEO to get found online, create stellar content, turn traffic into leads, and more. Get your free guide here: http://bitly.com/1iCkBlQ

Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on March 12, 2014 at 4:21pm — No Comments

25 Website Must-Haves

Need to know what it takes to have a great website that drives visitors, leads and revenue? Try our free 52-page guide to having a killer website. You'll learn how to use SEO to get found online, create stellar content, turn traffic into leads, and more.

Get your guide here: http://bitly.com/1iCkBlQ

Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on March 12, 2014 at 4:20pm — No Comments

25 Website Must-Haves

Need to know what it takes to have a great website that drives visitors, leads and revenue? Try our free 52-page guide to having a killer website. You'll learn how to use SEO to get found online, create stellar content, turn traffic into leads, and more.

Get your guide here: http://bitly.com/1iCkBlQ

Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on March 12, 2014 at 4:20pm — No Comments

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