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Up and Coming Events in Boise

DRUPAL USERS GROUP
Ok. If you are a DRUPAL dork ; ) then have we got an event for you: Boise Drupal Users Group Meeting:

Date: Thursday August 7, 2008
Location: 1037 E. WINDING CREEK DR. EAGLE, ID 83616
Time: 5:20 pm
Topic: Drupal 101

Meeting host Joshua Brauer plans to show the “Understanding Drupal” video to kick the meeting off. […]

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Idaho Challenged by Results of the Human Development Index

TechBoise is a blog, and not a news agency, but that is still no reason for us to slip into rank boosterism. At the same time no one here wants to adopt a sky-is-falling tone. Still, amidst all the constant lists that Boise makes for being a great place to live, work, and raise a […]

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Cautionary Tale

Those of you on Twitter or at OSCON have already seen the posts from @kveton and @turoczy about the press that Vidoop is getting as they move their corporate headquarters from Oklahoma to Portland. I think there are at least three important lessons in this article I am reposting from the Oregonian:
1) Innovation can happen […]

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Microsoft Helps Farmers by Creating Videos on Best Practices

Editors note: This one seemed too good to pass up. Reposting here an article from the Times of India. Who says Tech and Ag can’t be friends?

Microsoft helps farmers by creating videos on best practices
20 Jul 2008, 0428 hrs IST, Prashanth G N,TNN
BANGALORE: A global technology giant isn’t usually expected to take much interest in […]

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Welcome guest editor Chris Blanchard, CEO Pronetos

Yes, here I am welcoming myself to the TechBoise blog editorship! Those long arms of mine are coming in handy to pat my own back. The good folks over at HP are keeping Tac Anderson running, so I’m grabbing the reigns for a bit while he brings HP into the twenty-first century.
I’ve got […]

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Does the valley really need more consultants?

I know I’m going to upset some people with this post and it isn’t mean to have that affect. I mean no disregard to consultants. Most of my best friends are consultants. I’ve even been a consultant. And to be perfectly clear, I’m talking about individual consultants, not agencies or firms. And I’m not […]

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Portland and Boise: The “other” North West Tech Communities

Pronetos’ own Chris Blanchard posted a guest blog over at the Silicon Florist. It’s a great blog that focuses on technology startups in the Portland area (someone should do that for Boise).
Chris does a great job of ppointing out many of the similarities between Boise and Portland start ups.
The editor even made an interesting […]

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HP and Micron can’t carry the Valley forever

Here’s my news tip for Boise (especially any elected or wannabe/soon to be elected officials):
LaserJet’s and DRAM are not going to carry the valley like they once did.
Can we expect to see more layoffs in Boise? It’s too hard to realistically predict any specific events tied to any specific market activity. Maybe not now. […]

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Transportation, Taxes and Talent

This is disappointing. From what I understand, the bill is asking to allowing voters the right to vote on being taxed or not. I think any bill that has anything to do with potential increased taxes will reach stiff opposition.
It’s a sad reality of politics. If this bill were passed and the […]

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I hate politics

Maybe it’s because I grew up the son of a lobbyist, but I really hate politics.
I haven’t weighed in on the disbanding of the Governors council because I don’t really know what to say. The Governor doesn’t get tech, that’s obvious. James Ellick doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Personally […]

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