
Today is the second day of the “Get Your Head in the Cloud” global cloud computing conference, hosted by the Iowa State Research Park and Iowa State University. Both Jeff Barr of Amazon.com and Dennis Quan of IBM are on hand again today as speakers, though the audience is quite different. Th...

Today’s two public sessions at the “Get Your Head in the Cloud” cloud computing conference focus on explaining the basics of cloud computing and how it works, plus various success stories from companies leveraging the cloud for their infrastructure. The ...

Today is the last day to make speaker submissions for the Iowa Code Camp on November 7. Code Camp is a type of unconference that focuses purely on code. Due to the content, the event is typically attended by developers and companies working in that space...

At the end of next week the Iowa State Research Park will have their collective heads in the cloud. People won’t be daydreaming though, they’ll be talking with industry leaders and panelists at a cloud computing conference covering the latest trends and innovations in the space. Cl...

Now coming into it’s third year, BarCamp Des Moines is poised to whisk away technologists, entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives for its day-long unconference event on September 26. ...

TechSentry Our friends at Silicon Prairie News interviewed us yesterday to talk about technology in Iowa and the goals of TechSentry. See the video below.
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Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard Last Thursday wasn’t just any ordinary meeting for the Iowa Ruby Brigade. The day was actually very significant to the group, marking their two year anniversary as a local Ruby user group. ...

When you are building a business, one of your core focuses is on making money. You’ve got to have a product, customers, staff and other details figured out, but how you’ll make money may be more important than all the rest. If...

After announcing his new venture just over two weeks ago, James Eliason is already looking for a Director of Business Development according to a post on Craigslist in Chicago...

Businesses and professionals that are blogging already know what kind of traffic it can generate. That’s part of why they do it. More traffic means more exposure which means more business. However, many just won’t take the word of peoples’ beneficial experiences. They...

Thanks to Aaron Rawson for providing this great recap of the CVINETA event last week. The Cedar Valley .net User Group (CVINETA) hosted their monthly meeting on September 1 at the Business and Community Services (BCS) building on the University of Northern Iowa’s campus. ...

One of the most time consuming aspects of writing technology proposals is defining the user interface. Many times for a proposal to get the proper review, or to summarize the solution to be created, a mockup of the interface is designed...

The Iowa Ruby Brigade is no military unit, but it does represent a group of individuals with common interests: the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails web framework...






















