Archive for September, 2006

Structure101 V.2 now in beta

From Chris Chedgey’s blog:
“Structure101 v2 goes beta today. With it you can walk through the code-base in slices from the class-level, to the package-level and up through the design levels, spotting tangles and seeing how far they have spread.”
I like Chris’ analogy of using the product to do a CAT scan on your code base.

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Ego Makes Entrepreneurs?

From Business Week online:
This article has an interesting take on what drives entrepreneurs; from research carried at Wharton by Brian Wu.
What to you think?

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Zinadoo launches today!

Nubiq Limited, a spin-out company from the TSSG research group at WIT, will launch its first product, Zinadoo, later today.
Zinadoo allows users to build free mobile websites and to use these with a range of text messaging services. They are already planning to trial the system in China by the end of 2006. More on […]

BarCamp is set for Webworks, Cork on September 30th.

…and I’ll miss it…
BarCamp Ireland is finally going ahead on September 30 and looks like being a super event.
Sadly, I’ll have to settle for the photos and podcasts.

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More on female entrepreneurship

Its great to see this subject getting some real attention at last.
In a previous post I mentioned the FEIW project running at WIT and now Enterprise Ireland have announced a major conference: Female Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century. It has a impressive line-up of speakers, including Louise Grubb, CEO of Nutriscience, a Waterford-based company and […]

Why so FEIW?

No, its not a typo!
The FEIW project, which is run jointly by WIT’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth , is putting together a very interesting programme for female entrepreneurs. Its well-recognised that women are less likely to start businesses and this project aims to address the issues they face through a […]

Map24 now covers Ireland

This posting on the Eirepreneur blog points to the Map24 website which has better street-level and rural maps of Ireland than I’ve seen to date. Our centre is located in a townsland (an old designation - one step lower than a village) but I can locate it very quickly by typing in , “Carriganore, Waterford”.
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