March 9, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any… read more
October 27, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Tim Lindenbaum via Flickr.) Usually published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. read more
September 11, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject "startup lessons learned." These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo. read more
September 9, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Jonathan Sharp, co-founder and president of appendTo, has a busy day ahead of him tomorrow. At 9 a.m. he'll be delivering a keynote speech at Omaha's Heartland Developer's Conference. During the day he'll log onto Skype to communicate with the rest of the appendTo team, which is located across the U.S. Then, sometime in the evening… read more
July 29, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
With a clever line of jQuery yesterday, appendTo co-founder and president Jonathan Sharp publicly welcomed the newest member to his company's team. AppendTo, based out of Denver, is a consulting, training and support company for jQuery, the most popular of the JavaScript libraries. The company currently stands tall as the only major player in this arena, and since forming last October, they've expanded quite rapidly. The new employee greeted in the tweet above, Elijah Manor, is the company's… read more
July 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha "It's actually kind of fun looking back," former freelance developer Jonathan Sharp remarked. "When I was first starting [Out West Media], I believe you asked me, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I was like, 'Same thing.'" One year later, some things are still the same: Jonathan still lives in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, he still enjoys owning and riding horses… read more
July 13, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Caza_No_7 via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage… read more
Omaha This is the second of three posts with updates from our CCPS contestants. A few weeks ago, Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska, the organization that has sponsored our CCPS $1,000 prize, asked me for updates from our past contestants. ... read more
September 8, 2009 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha With our focus to cover our region's entrepreneurs, innovators, and creatives, we hear not only about the cool things organizations are doing now but those that they hope to achieve in the future. To do so, they've expressed their need for talented individuals who "get it." We told them that we think we have this group's attention -- so today, we're proud to present to you our first Opportunities on the Prairie... read more
Omaha In my interview with Jonathan Sharp a few months ago, he mentioned he was currently contributing to a manual being written on jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library which simplifies the JavaScript language. I received an email from him ... read more
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