From the monthly archives:

June 2008

links for 2008-06-30

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, June 29, 2008

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links for 2008-06-28

June 27, 2008

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days | Printer-friendly version
“The cult of the M.B.A. likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand. But often, you can’t. “
(tags: spolsky microsoft billgates management)

VisualSVN – Subversion for Windows
Subversion Integration for Visual Studio
(tags: version-control windows svn subversion visualstudio ide tools)

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links for 2008-06-27

June 26, 2008

scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way
Tutorial on setting up hosted GIT repositories with access control on Ubuntu.
(tags: git distributed collaboration hosting howto gitosis scm versioncontrol)

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links for 2008-06-26

June 25, 2008

Caught On Camera: Couple Sees Jesus In Ultrasound – Photos – WMAQ | Chicago
From Jonna – this guy shows up everywhere!
(tags: jesus sightings)

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links for 2008-06-25

June 24, 2008

Send Out Cards
Create personal cards online and have them sent to recipients via snail-mail.
(tags: cards services)

msysgit – Google Code
Windows version of Git -
(tags: git installer windows)

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links for 2008-06-21

June 20, 2008

Secure Site Pro with EV: True 128-bit Extended Validation SSL – Product Description – SSL & SSL Certificates from VeriSign, Inc.
“Extended Validation SSL Certificates”
(tags: security ssl)

Welcome to GitCasts
Screencasts on using the Git source control system.
(tags: development distributed git education scm screencast)

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Feeling Bad

June 19, 2008

I’m kind of feeling bad for not blogging lately. The site is not getting much of my attention over the last few months. I’m playing a lot with git, a version control tool and figuring out how it plays with SVN, the SCM we use at work. I’m most [...]

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links for 2008-06-20

June 19, 2008

Coding Horror: Coding For Violent Psychopaths
“Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
(tags: atwood coding practice philosophy)

Using git for offline commits to a subversion repository | aidanf.net
Using git as an SVK replacement to have a local mirror of your SVN repository. [...]

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links for 2008-06-19

June 18, 2008

Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitz’s Blog » Apple’s Engineers: an Unexpected Profit Center
“Apple engineers make $89,000 a year, whereas Google engineers can buy four more Segways a year (pre-tax) with their $112,573 paycheck. Microsoft and Yahoo are closer to Google: both companies pay their engineers $105,000 a year.”
(tags: apple information)

Wine HQ Announces Wine 1.0
The [...]

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links for 2008-06-18

June 17, 2008

“You have to treat your employees like customers” – (37signals)
“When employees are trusted and treated like adults, they appreciate it just as much. The result: loyal employees who want to stick around forever.”
(tags: 37signals southwest culture leadership)

Josh Ashbury – Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Anonymity
“Treat your people like volunteers, and they will move mountains [...]

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links for 2008-06-17

June 16, 2008

iBanjo » Blog Archive » Programmer Insecurity
“Be transparent. Share your work constantly. Solicit feedback. Appreciate critiques. Let other people point out your mistakes. You are not your code. Do not be afraid of day-to-day failures — learn from them.”
(tags: codereview collaboration development git openness philosophy programming social)

iBanjo » Blog Archive » The Risks of Distributed [...]

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links for 2008-06-15

June 14, 2008

Weird Al Yankovic White & Nerdy Music Video on Yahoo! Music
White and Nerdy Music Video
(tags: weird-al video humor funny)

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links for 2008-06-14

June 13, 2008

Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and Internet Balance Of Power
“… by the end of the trading day, $3.6 billion had been removed from the pockets of Yahoo stockholders.”
(tags: microsoft yahoo google)

AbapUnit at XUnitPatterns.com
xUnit framework for SAP’s ABAP language
(tags: tdd xunit)

Weird Al Yankovic It’s All About The Pentiums Music Video on Yahoo! Music
(tags: video [...]

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links for 2008-06-13

June 12, 2008

Git smart: How we’re using Git to track our source code – (37signals)
37signals switches their source control from Subversion to Git.
(tags: 37signals development git opensource version-control)

It’s Good Work, If You Get to Telecommute… (Geek News Central)
“Dice.com asked the simple question: Would you take a pay cut if you could telecommute? While only 7% already do [...]

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links for 2008-06-11

June 10, 2008

Bamboo – Continuous Integration and Build Server
“More than a conventional continuous integration (CI) server, Bamboo provides Build Telemetry to help identify and highlight trends, patterns, and linkages across builds — not just focusing on the results of a single build. “
(tags: build continuousintegration development java continuous-integration tools)

My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage
“IETester is a free [...]

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links for 2008-06-10

June 9, 2008

Regular Expression (Regex) Design and Test Tool for .NET – Rad Software
“Rad Software Regular Expression Designer is a free download that helps programmers learn, develop and test Regular Expressions. It is an interactive Windows application that is designed to be simple and easy to use.”
(tags: regex windows client free tools software)

Apple’s chief Steve Jobs announces [...]

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Weekend Storms

June 9, 2008

Photo by rbieber

A weekend at the camper gave us ample opportunity to take pictures of – water. This one is from Sunday morning, which started out nice and then turned into torrents of rain. I was really happy with how this particular picture turned out.

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links for 2008-06-09

June 8, 2008

Twitter Command List
A list of twitter commands you can use via SMS, etc.
(tags: twitter api messaging microblogging sms)

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links for 2008-06-06

June 5, 2008

Cookies are for Closers » LinkedIn Architecture
Interesting post describing the architecture of the LinkedIn application.
(tags: architecture apps scalability)

The Project Management Paradox: Achieving More By Doing Less – Health – redOrbit
“Many managers indicate that their organizations are very good at starting projects, but not so good at finishing them. According to this author, the reason most [...]

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links for 2008-06-04

June 3, 2008

Mac OS X Leopard & Tiger Dual Boot · Dual Boot OS X Leopard Tiger (10.5 10.4) Installation
How To Dual Boot OSX Leopard and OSX Tiger
(tags: macintosh osx howto)

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