From the monthly archives:

January 2007

links for 2007-02-01

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Apple UK Mac / PC Commercials

January 30, 2007

Found these Apple UK commercials via Slashdot. I found them quite amusing, especially the vacation one.

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links for 2007-01-30

January 29, 2007

Open Source Weblog: Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL?
“Oracle has suggested it will offer support for the MySQL code, undercutting the company, and Oracle is already distributing the open source database management system.”
(tags: database mysql oracle oss)

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links for 2007-01-27

January 26, 2007

Becoming Agile: Test First Web Applications: TDDing a Castle MonoRail application with C# and Selenium
“TDD samples are mostly based on very simple unit tests. But how could we do something like building a web application test first.”
(tags: web applications tdd)

Create PDF Online free, PDF API, PDF .NET Server, Consulting
(tags: pdf service apps free)

dooheet award certificate
Making [...]

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links for 2007-01-26

January 25, 2007

Online Event Registration Software – Attendee Management System – On-line Web Service
Wow, there’s a service for everything these days isn’t there?
(tags: business software service registration event online conferences)

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links for 2007-01-25

January 24, 2007

Regulus » Binary Moon » The home of Ben Gillbanks
Nice looking Wordpress theme. I’m looking for a change …
(tags: blog wordpress theme Regulus)

Open Source Code Coverage Tools in Java
(tags: java testing development tools coverage)

Stop, Thief! How to Protect Your Site from Copyright Infringement | MarketingProfs.com
“They say that “Imitation is the sincerest form of [...]

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Wordpress 2.1 Released

January 24, 2007

The Wordpress team has announced the release of version 2.1 of their Wordpress blogging software on Monday. A list of the changes can be found in the release announcement.
Sure, this is old news (by internet time standards) but I just got around to getting caught up. I’ve upgraded the site [...]

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links for 2007-01-24

January 23, 2007

Digital Web Magazine – Separating behavior and structure
” …ecent advances in JavaScript theory call for the removal of the event handlers that some Web developers—and all WYSIWYG editors—deploy in large masses in their XHTML files, where they don’t belong.”
(tags: javascript style development)

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links for 2007-01-21

January 20, 2007

Implementing a Thread Library on Linux
“Linux takes a unique approach to threads. On Linux, threads and processes are treated the same. They are both considered to be tasks. The difference is that threads share the same memory space, file mappings and (in general) signal handlers. There is an
(tags: threads linux programming)

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links for 2007-01-20

January 19, 2007

Phil Windley’s Technometria | Limit Simultaneous Connections in Apache
(tags: apache)

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links for 2007-01-19

January 18, 2007

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Kernel book released under the Creative Commons license.
(tags: books creativecommons gnu kernel learning linux OS software unix)

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links for 2007-01-18

January 17, 2007

Usability newsletter – current issue
“Quick – tell me why you bought that unfamiliar German wine! Chances are, you many not even be aware of what went into your decision. But hold on, you say! You’re a very rational shopper, and you’re certain you can explain EXACTLY why you made each purc
(tags: design usability webdesign UI [...]

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The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch

January 17, 2007

Interesting article I found via slashdot called The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch in the Wall Street Journal. The article details the current whereabouts of John Draper, who gained fame for his hacking skills as a “phone phreak”.

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links for 2007-01-17

January 16, 2007

Create your Google Sitemap Online – XML Sitemaps
Crawls your site and creates a sitmap for you.
(tags: sitemaps generators)

Google Code – Sitemaps Third Party Programs & Websites
(tags: google sitemap generators)

Google Sitemap Generator for Windows :: GSiteCrawler
Windows applicatoin for creating Google Sitemaps
(tags: google sitemaps gen generator free)

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links for 2007-01-16

January 15, 2007

Web Page Analyzer – free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization
(tags: analysis page download time)

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HowsThatJob? : Starbucks rates in bottom 5

January 14, 2007

Before people start pegging me as someone who only sees the positive in Starbucks as of late, it is worth mentioning that a new site, Hows That Job?, has Starbucks listed in the Bottom 5 companies. Now, the site only has 45 reviews right now (in total – with only one for Starbucks) [...]

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Starbucks Green Apron Book

January 14, 2007

Photo by rbieber
Did you know that you could just walk into your local Starbucks and request a "Green Apron Book", that outlines the principles of Starbucks? I heard about this little booklet from a recent book I had read about the company and went in to my local Starbucks and asked for [...]

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Ed Gibbs on Enterprise Tools

January 14, 2007

A great post by Ed Gibbs entitled “Wasting Money on Expensive Enterprise Tools”. Its shocking sometimes how much money is spent on things just because they have the word “enterprise” in their description. Anyone in IT will smile to themselves when reading this post.

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links for 2007-01-12

January 11, 2007

PeopleOverProcess.com: Build Forge Briefing
Looks like an interesting build related product
(tags: buildsoftware development)

Zimbra – Blog – Securing Ajax
(tags: ajax security articles)

Barracuda secure HTTP tunnel
(tags: security https ssl software)

O Googlers, where art thou? / Some employees found instant riches in the Internet search company’s initial public offering — affording them the luxury of pursuing new dreams
(tags: business [...]

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Blog as a Business Card

January 11, 2007

I found Jason Calacanis’ characterization of his blog as a business card pretty interesting. I’ve never thought of it that way. It’s definitely an interesting concept though.

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