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tl;dr- How do you engage with VARs in a way that will get their attention? In the last two years, several organizations has asked to license a medical spell check dictionary that I made years ago. After exchanging…

I was able to track down the original developer of a .NET icalendar library that had been abandoned. (It wasn't easy.) It had ambiguous licensing and copyright associated with it, which made me leery of using it for…

I'm a writer. Most of my work has been contract-based, and a lot of it has been protected by NDA for various reasons. That means my public portfolio for technical writing is rather slim. I'm unemployed, and I'm looking…

Most of the VC active on the web are investors in software generally, and Internet startups specifically. It's also pretty easy to find green technology and resource scarcity investors. This hardly covers the…

Let us say I like an author. Ed Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard. He contributes regularly to Economix (economix.blogs.nytimes.com), but he also writes for other publications. E.g., an article in TNR (…

So I'd like to find a programming mentor in my area. Or better yet, an enthusiast group. Think Toastmasters for programming. A LUG or MUG only for programmers of all ages and skill levels, where the only requirement is…