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Help HPU Students learn "Real World" Spreadsheet and Database skills

I'm teaching a database/spreadsheet course at HPU this fall

to accounting/management grad students as well as the odd computer

scientist, and I have all this boring sample data from the textbook

regarding fictional ice-cream companies. Pretty tedious stuff. I had

this idea to re-create the data based on the "The Office" so all the

accounts/salespeople names would be taken from the show.

What I'd also really love to do is get some actual XL/access data… Continue

Added by Sam Joseph on August 27, 2010 at 5:26pm — 5 Comments

The Great 2009-2010 Hawaii Brain Drain

At recent developer events, including today's UX Design Meetup, the effect of the great 2009-2010 Hawaii brain drain was readily apparent. Seth Ladd, Anthony Eden, Sam Joseph, Truman Leung, Ken Mayer, David Neely, Sherwin Gao, Seri Lee, Gabe Morris, Alex Salkever, Laurence Lee, Ken Berkun...this is just a handful of quality people I know personally. The list of talented tech industry people who have left or will soon be leaving over this very short period of time is truly…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on August 18, 2010 at 8:30pm — 127 Comments

Is CCNA worth it in Hawaii?

I'm a college student finishing up my last year in school. I am currently majoring in Political Science and minoring in I.T. During my I.T. courses my professors would always comment about how there is a great demand for CCNA individuals here in the pacific region. I have done a fair amount of research about this certification, however I would like to ask those who have been in the "real world" if I should pursue this certification, and is it useful here in Hawaii. My main goal is to give back… Continue

Added by Tonu Apelu on August 17, 2010 at 12:42am — 10 Comments

FDT is free for memeber of the Hawaii Flash User Group

Hi,

In case you are a member of the Hawaii Flash User Group, we are now being sponsored by Powerflasher the makers of FDT

The great folks over at powerflasher is offering a free license for FDT Pure for the HFUG memebers for the month of August. if you did not get the e-mail about it contact me for the key.

I am posting this here as there are a few memebers on tech hui as part of the group.

If you are interested in joining… Continue

Added by John Barrett on August 16, 2010 at 9:41pm — No Comments

VCs And Super Angels: The War For The Entrepreneur

Will the US create the next CISCO or Google, or an app to find a medium rare hamburger with less than 1,000 calories?…

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Added by Barry Weinman on August 16, 2010 at 9:24am — 3 Comments

Looming crisis in the visitor Industry? Political leaders are we doing something???

Reading some amazing survey last month and still not sure if Hawaii government or industry is doing anything to prevent a meltdown of our hotels and or visitor industry as a whole from tanking?

Check out this report and see for yourself of a coming crisis. http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2010/07/atlas_survey.html

Emailed Jim if Hawaii is immune to this. He says no brand of hotel is going to be spared and…

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Added by John Sydney Yamane on August 14, 2010 at 9:50pm — No Comments

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Added by Jason Rushin on August 4, 2010 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Featured Techie: Marcelo Kobayashi, Inventor of BioTOM

The Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory had a problem. For the Leonidas low-cost nano-satellite program, the University of Hawaii program needed to design an adapter to connect as many as 18 small satellites to larger satellite. Upon attaining the proper orbital or… Continue

Added by Alex Salkever on August 1, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Job Available

I know we have a lot of folk on the site that live in Southern California, and by way of trying to support the group and get folk back to work, please see the following:

I have an immediate need for three…

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Added by Francis A. Covington on July 29, 2010 at 7:22am — No Comments

failures of hawaii's broadband new act 199

The failure of this broadband act

HB2698 Enacted as Act 199 (july 6, 2010)

Does not show anything about reducing the State cost of accessing higher speed networking.

Does not address this cost reduction and reduce duplication…

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Added by John Sydney Yamane on July 27, 2010 at 3:05am — No Comments

Xcode 4: All-New!

Xcode 4…

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Added by Nathan Wallace on July 25, 2010 at 9:34pm — 4 Comments

New Virtual Classroom launch on WiZiQ - Important notes

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Added by Mark Cruthers on July 24, 2010 at 9:19am — No Comments

Marc Benioff: "I attribute Salesforce's great performance to my ability to work in Hawaii."

Check out this interview with Marc Benioff in which he comments on living/working part-time in Kona.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggWWrOSPpmhugojQ7As4U7jMO6SgD9H47S580

Here's the part about Hawaii:…

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Added by David Lassner on July 24, 2010 at 7:44am — 1 Comment

Google Wind Farms Converging with Server Farms and "Green Apps in the Google Cloud"

Go Google! The next step may be more directly connecting Google wind projects to their server farms and marketing "My e-mail is green -- is yours?" BTW, this story comes out the same day as the Civil Beat article on Big Wind in Hawaii.…

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Added by David Heerwald Leonard on July 20, 2010 at 11:34am — 3 Comments

Our servers incorporate unicorn horn technology!

Hello, My name is Brian and I have an IT problem.

(Hi Brian)

Actually, we all do.

I started off a geeky, unsociable, and shy nerd hiding behind racks of whining fans, choking on stifling recycled air yet somehow always wearing a jacket. I enjoyed spending hours upon hours in dimly lit rooms configuring unix daemons and rebuilding systems. Sound familiar? No? I guess your 1999 was better than mine!

Last weekend I don't think I even used a… Continue

Added by Brian on July 7, 2010 at 10:30pm — 14 Comments

2010 TechHui Conference: That's a Wrap!

Aloha e TechHuians! We had three keynotes, 10 panels, 180 Subway sandwiches, a special HTML 5 session, a few hand launched AUVs, an appearance by Gollum and no fatalities. Woohoo! Many thanks to our sponsors*, organizers Susan Horowitz (Pacific New Media College), Mika Leuck (Ikayzo) and… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on June 26, 2010 at 11:00pm — 15 Comments

Apple Knows Best

Full Disclosure: I've no vested interest in either but I do have some slight anti-Apple bias.

Lots of buzz lately with the very promising launch of the iPhone 4 which is now out (sorta) coming on the tails of the successful iPad launch and Android's success continuing through the recent Evo 4G giving Sprint a decent phone - finally and the upcoming Droid X through Verizon. Inevitable…

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Added by Brian on June 24, 2010 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Neil Abercrombie unveils Technology and Innovation plan, calls for infusion of technology to create jobs and diversify economy

Neil Abercrombie today unveiled his Technology and Innovation Plan, the latest in a series of policy papers outlining his priorities as a gubernatorial candidate.

“We need to weave technology and innovation into our economy to grow new businesses, raise productivity and create good jobs,” said Abercrombie. “But it can only happen by building a disciplined policy that brings together the Office of the Governor, the Legislature, the university system, the private sector, and… Continue

Added by L.P. "NEENZ" FALEAFINE on June 23, 2010 at 4:29pm — 13 Comments

Advanced Google Apps for Modern Business Research

Aloha:

Finding and using new research technologies is very exciting for me.This month I'm going to share some really hot research tips straight from Google Labs. Use the sample links and get a glimpse of what's possible and at your finger tips for smarter looking projects and very current trend information. Please feel free to send me any questions or comments. I always like hearing from you and I am always looking for more clients who need research services.…

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Added by Sonia N. Isotov on June 18, 2010 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Weekend Success: Ported Mathogen to Flash for Facebook

Click here to play Mathogen in Flash.

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This weekend I successfully ported Mathogen from Objective-C for iPhone to Flash for Facebook. Please comment or email me at …

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Added by David Neely on June 14, 2010 at 2:00pm — 8 Comments