Noel Wurst

Previously a copywriter and editor for TechWell, SQE, and StickyMinds.com, Noel Wurst has written for numerous blogs, websites, newspapers, and magazines. Noel has presented educational conference sessions for those looking to become better writers. In his spare time, he can be found spending time with his wife and two sons—and tending to the food on his Big Green Egg. Noel eagerly looks forward to technology's future, while refusing to let go of the relics of the past.

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How to Attract Passionate Developers to Your Startup

How can startups continue to attract the best and brightest talent—developers, in particular? Although corporations aren’t the “bad guy” they once were, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and other big players still offer many perks that the average, strapped-for-cash startup simply can't provide.

Stop Blaming Changing Requirements for Your Project's Failure

Blaming changing requirements for a project's downfall is about as misguided as it gets. When you start accepting that change is in coming and you start preparing for it by using iterative development, you'll see that dreading or fighting change is the only way to ensure failure.

Processing Language’s Data Visualizations Getting Cooler Every Day

While everyone's ooohing and ahhhing about Foursquare's new olive branch to small businesses, a large number of people in the world have no idea what Foursquare and numerous other companies are doing with Processing—a "design-centric" programming language that's changing the world.

Open Source Hardware Deserves as Much Press as Its Software Sibling

If we all start talking about open source hardware (OSHW) just a little bit more, perhaps we can get it the attention it desperately deserves. Sure open source software is wonderful, but when coupled with OSHW, the boundaries of development truly cease to exist.

Augmented Reality Technology Begins to Eclipse Its Gimmicky Past

Five years ago augmented reality wasn't on most of our minds, but lately it's in the news almost weekly. Why the sudden interest? It's likely because the technology is actually being used to improve our lives—not just clutter them.

Capture the Magic of Pixar in Your Next Software Project

Recently Pixar was kind enough to publish the twenty-two rules of storytelling that its teams follow with every film it releases. And lucky for software developers, it appears that many of these rules can be applied to software development to enrich the storytelling experience for users.

Greenpeace Questions the Cloud’s Environmental Sustainability

The cloud is often sold as the perfect option for increasing computing and storage needs by reducing the cost and energy usage required to perform these functions with in-house hardware. But what are the true environmental tolls of simply shifting the energy costs to someone else's data center?

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