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The 'Real' Reasons Appirio Bought TopCoder

Yesterday, we announced that Appirio has acquired TopCoder, which, when combined with CloudSpokes, will become the world's largest professional development and design community with nearly 600,000 members! That’s more developers than Accenture, Deloitte and Infosys combined! Now, if you want to read

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CloudSpokes #DifferentSpokes with Josh Birk from Salesforce.com

Earlier this week we broadcast our third episode of #DifferentSpokes with a special guest, Josh Birk from Salesforce.com. If you missed it, it was a really entertaining episode with some interesting questions from Twitter. Obviously we focused on Salesforce.com related topics such

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"Piratize" Your Salesforce Chatter Feeds for ITLAP Day

We just wrapped up a really cool challenge over at CloudSpokes just in time for not only Dreamforce 12 but for International Talk Like a Pirate Day... which just happens to fall right in the middle of Dreamforce. Here is a blog post with

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Using Node.js to Host Development Web Services

One of the cool things about Node.js, besides the fact that it's fast and scalable, is that it's extremely easy to setup and get running. In a couple of minutes you can get a fully operational web server running with minimal code. I've

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"Chow Finder" - My Veterans Hackday 2011 App

This is my submission for the LinkedIn Veterans Hackday 2011. CloudSpokes threw in an extra $100 for any member that submitted as an extra incentive. Our members created some pretty

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Video Tutorial - Building APIs with Salesforce.com Apex REST Services

I've had this video queued up for a few days now as I was waiting for the Apex REST API webinar. I didn't want to steal Sandeep Bhanot's and Alex Toussaint's thunder. Their webinar was very informative and packed full of code! It should

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CloudSpokes Hits 2000 Members in 6 Weeks!

Yesterday was a big day in the history of CloudSpokes as we hit 2000 members! We officially launched the site six weeks ago on Valentine's Day and honestly didn't know what type of reception we'd receive. At a pre-launch meeting we tried to set

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You'll "Like" this CloudSpokes Winner!

We just wrapped up another cool contest over at CloudSpokes and we have a winner for our Facebook "Like Box" Visualforce Component challenge. Congratulations to Shanmuk1729 who made a cool $600 for building a nifty little Visualforce Component that displays a Like

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Beat Jeff Douglas ... not literally

Over at CloudSpokes we have a new "Beat Jeff Douglas" contest. The contest is not to see if you can physically beat me up, although that was suggested by a couple of people that I work with, but to see if you can write

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Introducing CloudSpokes

CloudSpokes brings the crowd to the cloud. It is the industry's first community for crowdsourcing enterprise cloud development that brings together enterprise cloud challenges and cloud developers to earn recognition and (real) cash. CloudSpokes offers a competitive and collaborative environment for challenges, networking, discussions

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Build a Twilio App in 5 Minutes on Heroku

I just saw this 5 minute video and thought that people might find it interesting in the context of the learning Ruby series. It's pretty slick demo of using Twilio’s HTTP based call-handling model, and Heroku’s provisionless hosting platform, to build and