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February 2007

links for 2007-03-01

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Competing On The Basis Of Speed – Google Video

Excellent lecture on Lean Development by Mary Poppendieck as part of the Google Tech Talk Series. Totally worth the time spent. This is a very engaging lecture that gives really good information on the implementation of lean concepts in software deve

(tags: video google Poppendieck lean development methodology principles process)

links for 2007-02-27

February 26, 2007

Everything Solaris
Out-of-the-box, Solaris is not tuned for being a Web server. While you could certainly set up Apache (or any number of other HTTP software) and start sending out pages to the Web, performance will not be anywhere near what your machine is capable of. What
(tags: solaris apache tutorial)

InfoQ: Interview: Mary and Tom Poppendieck on [...]

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Now I’ve Heard It All: Management Lessons from RoadHouse!

February 25, 2007

One of my favorite “bad” movies that I just cannot switch past when its on is the movie “Road House“. As a matter of fact, we went out and bought the DVD so that when it is on TV, I can pop in the DVD and watch the “unedited” TV version of the [...]

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More Snow in Chicago

February 25, 2007

Photo by rbieber

… and why not.

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links for 2007-02-25

February 24, 2007

lighttpd HTTP Server
I’ve heard a lot about this one in reference to rails development. Time to check it out I think.
(tags: apache admin free Internet opensource webservers tools unix ruby rails server webserver httpd)

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links for 2007-02-24

February 23, 2007

ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards
“ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads.”
(tags: ajax javascript tools web2.0)

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links for 2007-02-23

February 22, 2007

Design Quotations
Well, Tom says these are well said …. I’ll mark them for future reading. I’m a stickler for new quotes.
(tags: Design development Quotes)

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links for 2007-02-22

February 21, 2007

Moving to Scrum: Making the Case to Management
Doug talks about his experiences introducing Scrum to a small organization. Good read
(tags: agile development scrum)

Javascript Closures
(tags: toread javascript)

Mono brings Visual Basic programs to Linux
The Mono Project on Feb. 20 announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use [...]

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links for 2007-02-21

February 20, 2007

How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
“Several of Bruce Tate’s books focused on the flaws in Java and the need to let go of some of the ideas that haven’t worked out. And blogs like this and this have been appearing more frequently. And of course there’s Steve Jobs now-famous [...]

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links for 2007-02-20

February 19, 2007

What You Didn’t Know About Bruce Lee’s Kick-Ass Success – Life Coaches
(tags: brucelee toread Inspiration goals)

PDF to HTML – convert Adobe PDF document into html file with pdf to html converter
(tags: pdf)

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links for 2007-02-17

February 16, 2007

4+1 Ways To Speed Up WordPress With Caching
(tags: optimization opensource wordpress)

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links for 2007-02-16

February 15, 2007

Tarski · An elegant, flexible WordPress theme
Another elegant looking theme
(tags: wordpress themes)

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links for 2007-02-15

February 14, 2007

California Pastor Stole the Whole Church: SouthFlorida.com
“We didn’t know anything until we got a call from the bank that he had bought a BMW”
(tags: church embezzlement)

Tech Salary Negotiations – IT jobs | Negotiation Institute
“We’ve watched salespeople out manoeuvre and out negotiate geeks in the opening hours of our training courses. In response we’ve put together [...]

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links for 2007-02-14

February 13, 2007

http://vpnclient.clearchannel.com/
Cisco VPN Clients – Multiple Operating Systems
(tags: vpn cisco client download)

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links for 2007-02-13

February 12, 2007

Fundamentals of Web Site Acceleration :: Port80 Software
(tags: compression development http optimization)

i-Technology Viewpoint: Why Java Is Not Slow @ JAVA DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL
(tags: java speed jit)

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Kelsi Caught in a Lie …

February 8, 2007

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Some more fun with Comic Life on the Mac.

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links for 2007-02-08

February 7, 2007

Creating Passionate Users: Don’t ask employees to be passionate about the company!
“people ask me, “How can I get our employees to be passionate about the company?” Wrong question. “
(tags: passion articles culture Work productivity Inspiration management)

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links for 2007-02-06

February 5, 2007

Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching – askApache
This article shows 2 awesome ways to implement caching on your Site using .htaccess (httpd.conf) files on the Apache Web Server. Both methods are extremely simple to set up and will dramatically speed up your site.
(tags: apache cache caching howto optimization)

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Regex Widget for Mac Dashboard

February 5, 2007

I found this really cool regular expression widget for the Mac Dashboard. It allows you to test regular expressions against text – and puts it right at your fingertips. Nice!

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links for 2007-02-03

February 2, 2007

Grumpy Tech Guy: Joke becomes true…
Vista’s voice recognitiion makes joke come true. Kinda funny …
(tags: vista microsoft security windows)

Ajax : Ajax-Development-Gotchas – SWiK
Some gotchas regarding XmlHttpRequest and different browser behaviors. Most notably, synchronous calls lock the browser.
(tags: browsers development javascript programming XMLHttpRequest)

CSS techniques I use all the time | The Montoya Herald
“’m [...]

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