
</dev> diaries
Alan has been a developer for more than 15 years. Then he become a startup CEO. These are the notes on various things from his perspective.

Alan Mendelevich
I run AdDuplex - a cross-promotion network for Windows apps. Blog at https://blog.ailon.org. Author of "Conferences for Introverts"
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