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Featured Blog Posts – September 2011 Archive (4)

STATE RELEASES ROADMAP FOR TRANSFORMING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS

The state today released a report detailing its information technology (IT) assessment, a critical component in the Abercrombie Administration’s long-term plan to transform technology.

The assessment, which includes a Baseline Assessment and Benchmarking Report, was conducted by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in close…

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Added by Josh Levinson on September 29, 2011 at 3:54pm — 7 Comments

HI Capacity's Physical Makerspace opens October 10th

HI Capacity been steam rolling along in attempts to find and unite the 'makers' and 'creators' on island. Ultimately, our goal is to have a self-sustaining Makerspace in Honolulu, funded primarily through it's members via a tiered membership. Recently, there's a co-working movement that's been happening on island with the advent of such…

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Added by Austen Ito on September 25, 2011 at 12:42pm — 2 Comments

Pair-Programming: Kill the Fear

My first appearance in Chicago Rails conference turned out to be a blast. It's been while since I was in Chicago last time and it felt great to be back in a big city.

Being surrounded by software professionals is an exciting and inspiring experience, and conservations with people working for different companies are undoubtedly valuable, I got chance to…

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Added by Marshall Shen on September 18, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

September Newsletter: Sprout Acquired, Ignite & Startup Weekend

August was an exciting month for tech in Hawaii. Honolulu startup Sprout (formerly ChipIn) was acquired by InMobi, a mobile ad network that has served over 100 billion mobile ads to date. The combined companies will be able to serve HTML5 mobile ads constructed with Sprout to 165 countries. Read about …

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Added by Daniel Leuck on September 2, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments