links for 2007-09-29
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Explanation of a control chart, used in statistical process control.
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links for 2007-09-25
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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.
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Evo Experience on 9/21 - Quick Post and A Few Pictures
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 and upload pictures.
Real quick review, too many people at the EVO experience this time. Last time it was about 25 and was really nice. This time it seemed there were close to 40. However, given all that, watching the soundcheck and rehearsal was completely fascinating. This guy gets better every time I see him and the new band is absolutely incredible. Probably the best Vai show I’ve ever seen. Definitely check them out if they come to a town near you.
I hate the House of Blues as a venue, however. We basically stood for 7 or so hours. We were completely dead by the end of the show. All and all though, the music and the band were second to none. Best show I’ve seen so far - ever.
More pictures will be added to the set as we have time to sort through them, and I plan on putting together a more extensive post as I have time.
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links for 2007-09-22
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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.
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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you probably have certain blogging ‘habits’ and tips that you swear by. This article is a collection of such tips, designed to help you build a better blog.
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Married couple who find each other on line and don’t know it until they arrange a date. Funny.
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links for 2007-09-21
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Title says it all
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Content management with Subversion on the backend.(tags: content-management subversion)
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More to go along with the Amazon post I read this morning.
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37Signals: Secrets To Amazons Success
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 are most interested.
Innovation can only come from the bottom. Those closest to the problem are in the best position to solve it. any organization that depends on innovation must embrace chaos. Loyalty and obedience are not your tools.
and finally
Everyone must be able to experiment, learn, and iterate. Position, obedience, and tradition should hold no power. For innovation to flourish, measurement must rule.
Check out the full article. There’s a lot there, most of which sounds like it comes straight out of lean books I have read. These three, however, are key for me. People are the greatest asset, and the things that they are passionate enough to “play” with are the key things that foster innovation. You just have to learn to trust them enough to let them play, and release some of the structure that “mature” companies think they require.
Another example of how Amazon gets it.
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links for 2007-09-19
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“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.
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Good article. Anyone in Software Development who has interviewed for a job should recognize one or more of these patterns.
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Describes behavior of Firefox vs. IE with div containing floats.
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links for 2007-09-18
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Computers once filled entire rooms. Now they fit in our pockets. How a generation formed our tech landscape.
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links for 2007-09-17
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These guys have done a couple of tattoos for me. They do great work.
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- These commercials over at Rails Envy are great. Super entertaining. I actually laughed out loud. I found these via the Riding Rails blog. (0)
links for 2007-09-12
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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!
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Want to buy your own phone to use on your corporate AT&T account? Think again - it isn’t allowed.
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“When it comes to measuring productivity of software development, give it up entirely.”
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Another article about how measuring knowledge work doesn’t pay off … extremely interesting.
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CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking bank account information.
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The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS.
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- Watched Star Wars - The Legacy Revealed last night on the History Channel. Interesting to hear correlations to other mythologies. I highly recommend this one. (0)
links for 2007-09-07
- 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. (0)
links for 2007-09-06
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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.
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links for 2007-09-05
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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
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