I'm a 57-year-old guy where living on the edge is having a second beer. I haven't been to a concert in decades. And yet...

Last night I found myself crying at times over an exquisitely beautiful song, screaming and waving a flag so hard I broke two of them (a...

I am so glad I flew out here to experience Eurovision live. The people, the facilities, the energy -- it's so much more than just the three shows. The people working here are charged up. The reporters are all fans. And the acts from each country are having the time...

Your primary focus should not be finding an internship, any internship. Your focus should be on finding one that is a good fit for you. Spending your summer at an internship that's a poor fit is a waste of time and a suck-o experience. On the flip side, spending the...

What's key to selecting the best school for you? A strong sense of community, building friendships, working together, these are central to enjoying your time at college.

The Windward Code War is a very good measure of the depth of community within a school. And not just community,...

It's no secret women students are woefully underrepresented in computer science. There's a fun event coming up doing its part to help change that -- the Windward Code War.

University of Wisconsin Computer Science Professor Joline Morrison said, "We really appreciated that the competition emphasized strategy and problem solving rather...

It's a battle out there to find the top computer science students. How to find them and then get them interested in your company is a gigantic challenge. One very effective way to both find and entice top students is creating or sponsoring a programming competition.

When I asked for...

Laying it out by the numbers doesn't explain it well.

You arrive around 9:40 wondering what you're in for. Even more, wondering why you got up on such an early hour on a Saturday -- are you nuts? But you're here and you make sure your computer is...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Ideas

It was a great marketing idea. It was going to drive more traffic to our site and generate more buzz for our company than we had ever seen. It was a clever, innovative and visionary effort that couldn't fail.

But it did. It...

It would be cool to get an internship at one of the tens of thousands of start-ups that are creating amazing products. But it's more than just cool -- it's profitable. Working as an intern at a startup is the fast track to an awesome job, because an internship with...

You hear a lot about what companies are looking for from you as a startup intern. But it's equally important to think about what's in it for you.

Do You Want to Work at a Startup?

The first question to ask yourself is do you want to work at...

It was a really good idea. One that would be a step in reducing our carbon emissions and dependence on oil. But the implementation essentially threw the money away -- $425,080 in federal funds and $167,000 in City of Boulder funds. (And odds are, this wastage has occurred in most...

Comparing the Nissan Leaf by the standards of the most perfect car ever created, the BMW M3 (E30 body style).

I've owned a BMW M3 for the last 22 years. It is the classic E30 body...

It was a Battle

And we're not talking figuratively here, we're talking literally. The top 12 Computer Science Universities in the world competed last Saturday in a code war. This was a battle for school pride. This was a battle for bragging rights. This was a battle to see...

Work Locally, Compete Globally

Up until now, for most competitions, you have local competitions, often spread out over several weekends. And then the winners of those competitions fly to meet for the national competition. But there's no reason to do this for a programming contest. And there are some very...

All the excitement of March Madness, without the sweat

This upcoming January will see the first intercollegiate programming code war, with multiple teams competing from most of the top computer science colleges in the country. We have invited

The Pure Joy of Learning

Day 1 of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The keynote was interesting both for what it said as well as what it did not say:

1. No mention of SharePoint and SQL Server was mentioned only in passing. This doesn't mean either is going away -- they are a key...

We face two giant problems in reforming our campaign finance system. First, the stakes are so high that money will find a way to affect the outcome. Second, it take many many years to pass any real change, and about four months to figure out a way around them.

Jobs, jobs, jobs! Every politician in Colorado is claiming they are totally focused on jobs. But then in so many (not all) cases, they fall back on the same tired proposals they present for any problem. So let's look as what's really needed.

First off, increasing the number of jobs...

Senator Udall was gracious enough to sit down with me for an interview this past Monday. In the spirit of bipartisanship, we talked at the same table in the same coffee shop where I interviewed Ken Buck a year ago. Mark Udall comes across with the gravitas most Senators have,...