From the monthly archives:

March 2007

Vegas Pictures Online

by Ron Bieber on Friday, March 30, 2007

Jonna and I spent a relaxing four days in Vegas, and then a good deal of today getting our pictures up to our Flickr accounts. Each of us took a camera on this vacation. There’s a bigger post coming, but hey – I’m on vacation. Here are the links: Ron’s Photos and Jonna’s Photos.

“Pinot Evil” Wine Bottle Label

March 24, 2007

Photo by rbieber
Part of the wine score for today. I’m a sucker for monkeys.

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Slow Blogging Days

March 24, 2007

Its been really slow up here lately and its been bugging me. The problem is, I’m generating a ton of content but most if it is for work. Things have been extremely busy and by the time I get home and open up Ecto to get a blog post done, I’m [...]

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links for 2007-03-23

March 22, 2007

RSS:Article:Why RSS Content Module is Popular – Including HTML Contents – MDC
Information on the use of the RSS description tag and .
(tags: rss specifications specs)

RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Content
More goodness.
(tags: RSS RDF xml Specification feed Internet reference)

WordPress OpenSearch, v1.0 » Williamsburger
Plugin to allow your Wordpress site to support the opensearch API.
(tags: rss a9 [...]

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links for 2007-03-21

March 20, 2007

Geeks in Paradise | InfoWorld | The Business Case for Open Source Software | March 12, 2007 10:53 PM | By Josh Kuo
“There’s a lot more to making a business decision for OSS than just the up front cost.”
(tags: business opensource oss benefits freesoftware)

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links for 2007-03-20

March 19, 2007

Welcome to Growl!
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
(tags: apple macintosh osx free fun information macbook monitoring productivity tools)

State of Affairs in Enterprise IT – Part 1 : Venture Chronicles
“Most enterprise software is not built to sell to users but rather to IT [...]

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Breathing Room

March 19, 2007

Photo by rbieber
My recent upgrade to an 80G iPod gives me way more breathing room than I had with the 20G, and I can finally carry family photos around to boot!

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links for 2007-03-18

March 17, 2007

Google Base – Bulk Upload Instructions
Information on data formats for Google base
(tags: search searchengines google products)

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links for 2007-03-13

March 12, 2007

Information Radiators (Agile Advice)
An information radiator is a large display of critical team information that is continuously updated and located in a spot where the team can see it constantly. The term “information radiator” was introduced extensively with a solid theoretical framework
(tags: information productivity projectmanagement agile)

Brief text editor
AHHHH, how I miss this UnderWare product! [...]

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Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson

March 8, 2007

I have about three books that I am reading on and off but have been unable to focus on any of them for any length of time. Tom The Architect mentioned a book to me a few months ago called Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web [...]

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links for 2007-03-08

March 7, 2007

The Spread Toolkit
“Spread is an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks.” – got this from Cal Hendersens excellent book Building Scaleable Web Sites
(tags: api architecture distributed apache)

mod_log_spread
mod_log_spread is a patch to Apache’s mod_log_config, which provides an interface for spread to [...]

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Pulp Fiction Dialog in Type

March 7, 2007

Check out this awesome video posted on the 37 signals web site last Tuesday. I’ve always enjoyed Tarantinos dialog, but this adds a whole other dimension to it.

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ComputerWorld Picks Ruby on Rails as #1 Technology To Know

March 7, 2007

I was browsing the Riding Rails blog and saw this reference to a ComputerWorld article that rates Ruby on Rails as the #1 technology to know in 2007.

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links for 2007-03-07

March 6, 2007

8 Confessions Of A Former Verizon Sales Rep – Consumerist
A former Verizon sales rep, let’s call him Steve, wrote to us recently offering insider advice to all Consumerist readers.
(tags: wireless phones tips verizon cellphone consumer mobile)

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links for 2007-03-06

March 5, 2007

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
(tags: wordpress security exploit upgrade blogging)

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links for 2007-03-05

March 4, 2007

philosophe.com
“A thoughtful approach to web site quality.” I got this link from Cal Hendersons book on building scaleable web sites.
(tags: testing webdesign QA webdev)

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links for 2007-03-03

March 2, 2007

Adium Instant Message Client for Mac
Supports multiple services including IM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Novell Groupwise and others
(tags: im apple macintosh apps client collaboration free)

TECH.BLORGE.com » Blog Archive » Dell censors IdeaStorm Linux dissent
What’s the point of seeking ideas and feedback if you’re going to delete ”merge” the ones you don’t like?
(tags: linux dell social feedback)

Mac [...]

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The Shoemakers Son Always Goes Barefoot

March 2, 2007

The other night the ignition switch on the furnace went out in the house. I watched as Jonna spent a ton of time searching for the contact information for the guy who came out the last time we had a problem. It took quite a while to find the information, but [...]

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