From the monthly archives:

September 2007

links for 2007-09-29

by Ron Bieber on Friday, September 28, 2007

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links for 2007-09-25

September 24, 2007

RANDOM.ORG – True Random Number Service
RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.
(tags: random-numbers randomizer lottery raffle)

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Evo Experience on 9/21 – Quick Post and A Few Pictures

September 22, 2007

Jonna and I attended the Steve Vai Evo Experience at the House of Blues last night. Jonna played photographer and took about 300 or so pictures. We are in a rush this morning, but I have gotten a few up. Throughout the week I will continue to sort through [...]

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links for 2007-09-22

September 21, 2007

Open source impossible to avoid, Gartner says – Network World
The important thing is to plan an open source strategy, to set guidelines on where and when open source products are to be used. IT shops are scrambling to set open source policies, but almost no one has implemented one with any teeth.
(tags: gartner opensource software [...]

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links for 2007-09-21

September 20, 2007

Adding Bookmark This link to your website using javascript (Tildemark blogs)
Title says it all
(tags: bookmarks javascript browsers)

Sitellite Enterprise PHP CMS – Sitellite Features
Content management with Subversion on the backend.
(tags: content-management subversion)

currentcms: Current CMS
(tags: content-management subversion cms opensource)

Amazon Architecture | High Scalability
More to go along with the Amazon post I read this morning.
(tags: toread scalability amazon [...]

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37Signals: Secrets To Amazons Success

September 20, 2007

37Signals has an article on the Signal vs. Noise blog about the Secrets To Amazons Success. Its a good read.
My favorites:

People’s side projects, the one’s they follow because they are interested, are often ones where you get the most value and innovation. Never underestimate the power of wandering where you [...]

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links for 2007-09-19

September 18, 2007

iShowU
“iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a compatible source (like a microphone) as well as any audio from the mac itself.” Heard about this on DrunkandRetired.
(tags: screencast macintosh osx audio video)

Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews — Typical Programmer
Good article. Anyone [...]

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links for 2007-09-18

September 17, 2007

How Computers Transformed Baby Boomers – Baby Boomers At 60 – MSNBC.com
Computers once filled entire rooms. Now they fit in our pockets. How a generation formed our tech landscape.
(tags: communication culture news technology)

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links for 2007-09-17

September 16, 2007

Fox Valley Tattoos
These guys have done a couple of tattoos for me. They do great work.
(tags: tattoo studios)

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links for 2007-09-14

September 13, 2007

Retro MacOS Theme
Pretty nice theme …
(tags: wordpress themes macintosh)

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Rails Envy does Mac-like Commercials

September 12, 2007

These commercials over at Rails Envy are great. Super entertaining. I actually laughed out loud. I found these via the Riding Rails blog.

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links for 2007-09-12

September 11, 2007

AT&T is cruising for a bruising
iPhone owners on a mediterranean cruise rack up $4,800 in data charges while their iPhones are off due to international data charges and the iPhone checking email even when its off. Ouch!
(tags: iphone atandt data)

No iPhones for corporate accounts?!
Want to buy your own phone to use on your [...]

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Star Wars – The Legacy Revealed

September 7, 2007

Watched Star Wars – The Legacy Revealed last night on the History Channel. Interesting to hear correlations to other mythologies. I highly recommend this one.

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links for 2007-09-07

September 6, 2007

LEAN Innovations – Seven Types of Deadly Waste
Definitions of the Seven Types of Waste.
(tags: lean)

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Interview with Joel Spolsky on Hiring Technical Talent

September 6, 2007

Check out this interesting interview on Technometria with Joel Spolsky (from Joel On Software) on Hiring Technical Talent. I like Joel’s philosophy of focusing on the people causing great things to happen. Definitely a must listen for managers.

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links for 2007-09-06

September 5, 2007

How to use makefile utility in Solaris
Thread on building libevent, a dependency of memcached. Not necessarily accurate, but helpful. I think we need a posting on building this stuff on Solaris.
(tags: software build instructions)

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links for 2007-09-05

September 4, 2007

ONLamp.com — Caching Dynamic Content with Apache httpd
You know that part of your website that you never update? Sure, it’s “dynamic”–the content rests in a database and gets loaded with every request–but you haven’t updated it since last Christmas. Yet every time someone loads that page, it hits the databa
(tags: apache2 cache caching content howto [...]

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