From the monthly archives:

November 2007

links for 2007-11-30

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, November 29, 2007

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links for 2007-11-28

November 27, 2007

Jeff Findley’s Photos of the Randy Rhoads 25th Anniversary Gathering
Yes, Randy would have been 50 years old. These pictures are really cool I wish I was there. This also marked the beginning of the filming of a documentary on Randy’s life. Really cool.
(tags: rhoads anniversary)

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links for 2007-11-27

November 26, 2007

Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
The study added that “the worst performing sites on Black Friday were showing as much as a 400 percent slowdown,” which White said “will lead to consumers abandoning a product search or checkout.”
(tags: thanksgiving ecommerce performance)

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
Along the lines of if Microsoft had [...]

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links for 2007-11-26

November 25, 2007

The Blog Readability Test
Find out what level of education is required to understand your blog. For the record, mine is “High School”, and I’m in good company, with Tom The Architect and Cote (people over process).
(tags: analysis blog blogs readability writing fun)

How Digg.com uses the LAMP stack to scale upward
Article describing how digg.com [...]

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links for 2007-11-25

November 24, 2007

MacBook Pro: How to install memory
(tags: apple documentation hardware howto macbook macintosh mac upgrade memory)

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links for 2007-11-21

November 20, 2007

Simple XML Parser in C#
(tags: csharp dotnet xml)

Ecommerce Software by CRE Loaded – Shopping Cart Products – CRE Loaded Standard Shopping Cart
(tags: ecommerce opensource)

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links for 2007-11-19

November 18, 2007

Zappa Plays Zappa > More Trouble Every Day
Steve Vai solo spot on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. Great left arm only legato playing that completely blows me away every time I see it.
(tags: video vai steve-vai zappa music guitar)

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Framed Vai Memorabilia

November 18, 2007

Photo by rbieber
We finally got our Evo experience stuff framed and hung up – and when I say "we" I mean Jonna.

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links for 2007-11-10

November 9, 2007

Deskbound work culture stifles productivity
“Britain’s deskbound workforce is becoming increasingly uncommunicative and unhealthy with mobile technology an answer to the problem, according to a new study.”
(tags: business productivity Work corporate-culture)

Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis
Zombies in Egypt – looking at the evidence. Fun.
(tags: article fun history zombies)

Ask 37signals: How has open source helped or hindered? [...]

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links for 2007-11-09

November 8, 2007

Come In, Go Away Door Mat
(tags: via:carroll welcome-mat)

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links for 2007-11-07

November 6, 2007

Simple Tags – Plugins for WordPress 2.3 – Extend management of tags – Simple and Powerfull | Here With Me
Started using this plugin when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1. I’m liking it. My favorite feature? Showing untagged posts and letting me edit them.
(tags: wordpress plugins tagging tags)

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links for 2007-11-06

November 5, 2007

Making popularity contest play nice with WP-Cache – I’m Mike
Modified version of Alex Kings popularity contest that works with WPCache.
(tags: wordpress plugins scaling performance blog)

Popularity Contest: Temp Fix Download For Popular In Category Feature
A fix for Alex Kings Popularity Contest plugin and category measurements.
(tags: wordpress plugins alex-king)

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New El Camino In The Works???

November 5, 2007

Jonna shot over this link about a possible new El Camino coming out. For some reason, I don’t like it as much as the 80’s model.

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links for 2007-11-05

November 4, 2007

Ask.com Webmasters Page
Page with information on ask.com support of sitemaps, including ping URL.
(tags: seo sitemap sitemaps searchengines optimization)

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WLUP “Loop Girl” Interviews with Steve Vai at the House of Blues on September 21.

November 4, 2007

Finally found the interviews with Steve Vai done by the “Loop Girl” the night we saw him at the House of Blues. Part I and Part 2.

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Early Vai with Zappa – Stevies Spanking

November 4, 2007

Something cool for a Sunday. We picked up the Frank Zappa: Dub Room Special DVD yesterday and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I guess I’ll be back on a Zappa kick for a bit.

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links for 2007-11-03

November 2, 2007

Applied Watch Technologies – Press Releases
“Endace Limited, a world leader in network monitoring, latency measurement and application acceleration solutions, has acquired Applied Watch Technologies LLC for a maximum consideration of US$5.0 million in cash.” – Local McHenry County Business.
(tags: appliedwatch security network aquisitions mchenry)

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links for 2007-11-02

November 1, 2007

JWebUnit – JWebUnit 1.x
WebUnit is a Java framework that facilitates creation of acceptance tests for web applications.
(tags: testing tools web agile automation frameworks java library opensource tdd JUnit)

WordPress MU 1.3 at Holy Shmoly!
Wordpress MU 1.3 released – which is a resync of MU to use Wordpress 2.3.1.
(tags: wordpress multiuser wpmu)

Mac OS X Leopard: Enable Leopard’s [...]

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