From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Happy Birthday

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, June 25, 2006

Ron's Birthday Cake

I had to work on Friday night, so Jonna and Kelsi came in to hang out with me. They brought this cool cake in with them, along with enough cup cakes to feed an army. When it all comes down to it, Friday was a pretty decent birthday for me. Who can really complain when you have Spidey on your cake at 38? Who says I’m getting old?

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Book: The Real Frank Zappa Book

June 24, 2006

Over the last 6 months, I have been getting more and more addicted to the music of Frank Zappa. It would stand to chance then, that when I saw the book The Real Frank Zappa Book on a bookshelf in a local book store, I had to pick it up and leaf [...]

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Using del.icio.us To Share Links

June 23, 2006

Cote’ has written an extremely informative article on using del.icio.us to share links with others. I think I’m going to be using this quite a bit. It certainly beats emailing links all over the place.

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iTunes Finally Converted to MacBook

June 23, 2006

Well, after about two days of file copying, I finally got all of my iTunes stuff moved over to the new Mac. Why did it take so long you ask? I’m not really sure.
Copying between the Windows box and the MacIntosh using Windows File Sharing just didn’t work unattended. [...]

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DaringFireball: Why Apple Won’t Open Source Its Apps

June 22, 2006

John Gruber responds to Tim Bray’s posting (see earlier link) and makes a pretty convincing case around why Apple would have a hard time open sourcing its apps.

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Feedback on Review of Agile and Iterative Development: A Managers Guide

June 22, 2006

Someone found my review of the book Agile and Iterative Development : A Managers Guide. Seeing the phrase “The Evidence chapter in
and of itself is worth the price of the book” in the review, he shot me this link from xprogramming.com called Misstating the Evidence for Agile and Iterative Development.

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Alistair Cockburn on Agile Software Development

June 22, 2006

Tom the Architect pointed me to this podcast on IT Conversations featuring Alistair Cockburn talking about Agile Software Development and his new methodology Crystal Clear.

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Tim Bray On Switching From Apple

June 22, 2006

Tim Bray talks about why he is contemplating Ubuntu over the Mac. Some pretty interesting points here.

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Its the little things you notice …

June 22, 2006

Now that I have a few days on the Mac using it full time, I figured I’d post up some first impressions from a new user. More than that, observations from a new user who resisted the Mac when all his friends told him to go that way in the first place.

When the light [...]

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The Flickr vs. Zoomr Thing …

June 21, 2006

I was really glad to read Stewart Butterfields response to the whole Zoomr API key thing that happened over the weekend.
The first thing I thought of when hearing about the hub-bub first on Tom the Architects blog and then on yesterdays Geek News Central (I’m a little behind lately) was the article Strategy III: [...]

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The Labs Adds A Mac

June 19, 2006

Your looking at the first post to this web site completely written on a Mac.
Yep, thats right. A Mac.
Since the release of OS X I’ve wanted to make the leap to the Mac. The idea of a Unix based system with the useability of a Mac intrigued me to no [...]

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BostonHerald.com – Technology News: Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft

June 16, 2006

Bill Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft – Article from the Boston Herald.

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The Nightmare of Cancelling AOL

June 14, 2006

Vincent Ferrari recorded his attempt to cancel his AOL account. Its really something to listen to. The original article can be found currently on DugMirror, due to the fact that Vincents servers are currently getting a lot of traffic.

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SVK Aquired by Best Practical

June 11, 2006

I’m a little behind on the mailing lists, but I found that on June 5 it was announced that Best Practical Solutions, LLC has aquired SVK. SVK is a distributed version control system written on top of Subversion and provides the ability to mirror Subversion and CVS repositories to your local machine in [...]

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Customer Self Service

June 9, 2006

As a customer, I like to be in control.
Our family goes out to eat at least once a week (on weekends, mostly). Many times once we are seated we spend quite a bit of time waiting for our initial drink order to be taken, then for our actual order to be taken, then [...]

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