Author Archives: Michael Koby

Git Resources

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Michael Koby

Over the last couple of months I have been working on moving all of my personal projects over to Git based source control.  I have moved all of my source code to GitHub.  The reason I did this was because … Continue reading →

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NAnt Cross Platform Build Scripts

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Michael Koby

Yesterday I spent a great deal of time getting my build script for my TwitterNET project to run successfully under Linux on Mono.  My build script was already worked nicely on Windows but since I’ve moved to Linux and didn’t … Continue reading →

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Question Your Government

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Michael Koby

A democracy in which the leaders do not fear their constituants (the citizenry) is not a democracy. Continue reading →

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Social Networks & Job Hunting

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Michael Koby

This really goes to show the power of social networks and having good followers. I would not have some of the opportunities if it wasn’t for my Twitter followers who retweeted my resume and LinkedIn links like wildfire yesterday. And on Facebook, I was given instructions for no less than 2 companies on how to apply and send my resume, from real people that I know. Not bots or spam people that can you deal with on places like Monster. Continue reading →

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Laid Off Today

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Michael Koby

This morning at 8am, I was officially laid off from my job with Sogeti USA (Houston office).  To say it was a shock would be a lie, things just weren’t going well where I was involved (lack of billing, hard … Continue reading →

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Is Facebook Winning the OpenID War?

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Michael Koby

My question is, “Is Facebook winning the OpenID war?”. Not that there is really a war going on persey. I’m sure some people will make the argument that the two technologies are different (and on some level they very much are), but from a end user perspective they accomplish a similar goal and since a lot of people already have Facebook accounts the userbase for Facebook Connect is larger than OpenID. Continue reading →

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