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• We are the Ravens, not the Eagles

  Dec 6, 2021

  We are the Ravens, not the Eagles

  Making it hard to move data from one database to another puts an unnecessary stumbling block in front of the developer…

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• Do it Wisely

  Nov 8, 2021

  Do it Wisely

  My nephew is the golden child of the family. My niece gets the short end of the stick.

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• The ROI of Due Diligence

  Oct 18, 2021

  The ROI of Due Diligence

  One of my friends owns a small business. New to marketing, he purchased a simple solution to collect emails and…

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• Faster than a Speeding Bullet

  Sep 26, 2021

  Faster than a Speeding Bullet

  Boy, did Clark Kent outsmart that bullet. We all know it was all special effects.

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• What Makes Me Proud of My Company

  Aug 8, 2021

  What Makes Me Proud of My Company

  A project manager for a small business needed a document database. His first call was to the biggest company in the…

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• Beware of Anything

  Mar 2, 2021

  Beware of Anything

  “You won’t believe it Oren. We were at the mall, and there was this huge billboard for tennis apparel.

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• The Greatest Emotional

  Feb 18, 2021

  The Greatest Emotional

  People don’t buy on logic. They buy on emotion.

• The Prime Directive for Blogging in 2021

  Feb 3, 2021

  The Prime Directive for Blogging in 2021

  I Have Been Blogging Since 2004, this is the Primary Rule I learned. On April 1, I will be celebrating 17 years of…

• What Spiderman Shares with Me

  Jan 18, 2021

  What Spiderman Shares with Me

  Here is the classic anecdote by Spiderman creator Stan Lee about the birth of the master of the web (the other one):…

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• Outrage Makes Great Fertilizer for New Ideas

  Jan 3, 2021

  Outrage Makes Great Fertilizer for New Ideas

  The last few weeks I have been going over my blog posts from 2005, when I started my Ayende Rahien blog. Ironically, my…