James R Sullivan » Business http://jamesrsullivan.com Thu, 27 May 2010 01:12:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ExactTarget Developers http://jamesrsullivan.com/2009/03/exacttarget-developers/ http://jamesrsullivan.com/2009/03/exacttarget-developers/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:32:16 +0000 James Sullivan http://jamesrsullivan.com/?p=174 I created integrations with ExactTarget for a client and found it was an up-hill battle to get information about their web services and rest interface.  The only way to get the documentation is behind lock and key, a private forum and knowledge-base called 3sixty that is slow, has no user participation, and if you are a freelancer it’s just another layer of overhead to get an account to talk to people there – probably the reason why there is virtually no user adoption.  :)

Since I see no merit in contributing code to a private forum that you have to buy in for the sake of that company, I bought a domain and put up a punBB forum to give people a public space to talk openly (like the Salesforce.com forums):
http://ExactTargetDeveloper.com 

]]> http://jamesrsullivan.com/2009/03/exacttarget-developers/feed/ 2 Merlin Mann: Towards Patterns for Creativity http://jamesrsullivan.com/2009/01/merlin-mann-towards-patterns-for-creativity/ http://jamesrsullivan.com/2009/01/merlin-mann-towards-patterns-for-creativity/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:16:59 +0000 James Sullivan http://jamesrsullivan.com/?p=19 I read 43folders until a year or two ago and I am a huge fan of GTD.  This video is a succinct motivational and informative explanation for those of us who feel like we could be getting more out of our organization systems and really just do more:

Specifically, there are two books here which have made it onto my reading list due to Merlin’s recommendation: On Writing by Stephen King
and The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp.

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