Richard Monson-Haefel
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It will Curl your hair!
--Hi Everyone, I'm looking forward to meeting all of you at the Web 2.0 Expo S.F. The company I work for, Curl Inc., has this really cool RIA tec...
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CUBIT
--Now that I've discovered Microsoft Surface it seems I spend all of my copious free time (that's a joke) reading about it and related technologies. ...
Microsoft Surface
--While working at the Curl booth at Web 2.0 Expo today I took a break and went over to see a demonstration of the Microsoft Surface device which was...
Work on open source and make your dreams come true
--Chances are pretty good that you are not developing software at work that fulfills your most ambitious software development daydreams. Perhaps you ...
7 Architecture Commandments
--Although we just launched the "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" project to the public we are already receiving great contributions f...
Ajax running on borrowed time
--From erikbianchi.com: "JavaScript has remained virtually unchanged for over a decade now and with ECMA’s recent announcement, about dropping the EC...
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
--Since April of this year I've been working on a side project called 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. This has been a collaborativ...
Browser Wars II: The End of Ajax is here
--Well the moment I've been dreading has finally arrived. The Microsoft IE team has announced that IE 8 will include an important new feature that is...
On the radio
--Just in case you were fortunate enough to miss it, I was on the RIA Weekly radio show yesterday. Actually, The RIA Weekly Show hosted by Michael ...
Where the hell is Matt?
--"Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieve...
James Gosling
--I own most of my success to the Java Platform and therefor, in my opinion, to the team that developed Java - including James Gosling. I've always b...
Shifthappnes
--There is an excellent slide show that demonstrates the enormous changes that are occurring globally called Shifthappens by Josh Holmes. It's reall...
Ted Neward on the demise of Java applets
--A new podcast series by Sparkling Client has an excellent interview with Ted Neward called, "Welcome to 1997". Ted is one of the few people I know ...
JavaScript declining, Flash gaining
--Sometimes I like to play around with the Google Trends (they just added Google Trends Websites which is cool). Today I was attempting to figure ou...
Harleys, Jags, and Macs
--When I was a kid in the 70's my brother and I spent a lot of our time on motorcycles - mostly off road but on road as well. We loved our Yamahas a...
Information Visualization
--One of the coolest areas of computer science is information visualization - the use of computer graphics to provide visual abstractions for large a...
Why a Clever Monkey?
--When I create this blog I named it "The Clever Monkey" because I wanted to remind myself every time I posted that humility is critical to being obj...
Fair play in love and war
--As the VP of Developer Relations at Curl I have had the opportunity to do a lot of things including marketing, advertising, product design, analyst...
No Fluff, Just Stuff
--I'm really looking forward to joining the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) symposium series this year. I originally joined the tour back in 2003 before ...
Curl? Are you nuts?
--It's funny how people react when you tell them you've left a great job for something totally different. In my case, some of my friends think I've g...
RIA's Perfect Storm
--WebSphere Journal has an interesting article that predicts that 2008 will be the "Perfect Storm" for RIA technologies. I couldn't agree more! In f...
People are the Plateform
--People (i.e. clever monkeys) are the most important "asset" of any organization. It's people who decide what products and services to sell. It's p...
Leap of Faith: Leaving Burton Group for Curl
--It is at once a happy and sad day for me. I resigned from my position at Burton Group for a new position as Vice President of Developer Relations a...
My Ivory Tower
--Do industry analyst like myself live an an Ivory Tower? I can't speak for others, but I feel that I do. Analysts are asked to know so much about s...
Oh, Lord! My 20-something cousins joined FaceBook!!
--In June of 2007, The New York Times published an article, ‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’, about a teenage girl who was horrified to discover that h...
Curl Power!
--I've been learning about Curl, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology that is, in my opinion, a real competitor to more predominate RIA solut...
NotchUp is very clever
--The other day I received an invitation form an acquaintance to post my job information on NotchUp.com - currently in beta. The idea behind NotchUp...
The 2007 Darwin Awards
--What better way to celebrate the clever monkey than The Darwin Awards? The Darwin Awards honors..."those who improve the species ... by accidentall...
The Clever Monkey
--Despite a common belief to the contrary, we are not all that special as a species. The only difference between us and other primates is that we hav...
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