From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Bookmarks for October 30th through October 31st

by Ron Bieber on Friday, October 31, 2008

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Bookmarks for October 29th

October 30, 2008

Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files – Ahhhhh … embrace and extend. Sound familiar?
A Little Shack – A Case Study of Harley-Davidson Business Practises – "With the growing global economy, companies are looking for ways to improve their market share. Many excellent firms have learned how to beat their competitors through [...]

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Bookmarks for October 29th

October 29, 2008

InfoQ: Rockstar Memcaching – "In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do. "
Never Say “Do More With Less” Again – "We suggest that when budget or headcount reductions are necessary to first [...]

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Bookmarks for October 28th

October 28, 2008

WOA! SOA meets Web 2.0 – SD Times On The Web – "The ugly truth behind SOA, as we've discussed here a few times, is that it's a slow evolution, not a revolution. It's complex, expensive, but typically worth it if you hang in there. However, hanging in there is something that U.S. companies don't [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th through October 27th

October 27, 2008

Contributing to Rails: Step-by-Step « A Fresh Cup – "There are a few guides floating around about how to contribute your own code to Rails. But none of them (or at least none of the ones that I found) walk you through every step of the way. So, here’s an attempt to fill that gap." [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th

October 24, 2008

14 things to do if you are laid off from a tech job | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET – "Geeks and other tech employees are a little different from the vanilla workforce, though, so I wanted to put together a list of specific things that people in our part of [...]

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Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 23rd

October 23, 2008

Internet Evolution – Andrew Keen – Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping – "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to [...]

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Bookmarks for October 21st

October 22, 2008

DeHamerspace » Blog Archive » VirtualBox – A very good writeup on VirtualBox, Sun's virtual machine solution.
Agile Development Blog / SCRUM, Extreme Programming, Tools, Tips: Agile Development Future: Will Lean, Scrum and Extreme Programming evolve into one framework? – "I wish all agile methodologies evolve into one elegant, smart, simple framework. For me it is [...]

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Bookmarks for October 20th

October 21, 2008

10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing – "In this post we’ll take a brief look at 10 of the leading resources for making your browser testing less time consuming and more productive."
Google Calendar CalDAV support – Calendar Help Center – Synchronizing iCal and Google Calendar. Looked this up after Tom The [...]

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Bookmarks for October 20th

October 20, 2008

Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Home – Title says it all.
DVCS Why and How – Very good write-up explaining DVCS technology and why it is valuable.
Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) | BetterExplained – "Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it [...]

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Bookmarks for October 17th through October 18th

October 18, 2008

Skype – can i stop it from loading at start-up? – Mac-Forums.com – How to stop Skype from loading at startup on your Mac.
FireWire Isn’t Alone: A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed | Technologizer – List of technology Apple has chosen to kill from its products over the years.
Engineering Windows 7 : Engineering 7: A [...]

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Life Is Creepy Around Here

October 17, 2008

Photo by rbieber
For the last 4 or so days, I keep seeing the back of Jonna’s creepy halloween decoration as I walk through the house and thinking someones in the house.

[tags]flickr,photos,halloween[/tags]

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Bookmarks for October 15th through October 17th

October 17, 2008

Zend Studio for Eclipse – No file extension as PHP – Good example of the use of Twitter for technical support of a product. Way to go Zend!
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office applications | Balsamiq – "Create software mockups in minutes, iterate over them with your team, then embed them in [...]

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Bookmarks for October 10th through October 15th

October 15, 2008

Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Apostrophe in the Email Address? – "This could have been easily avoided if certain IT department simply had a policy which said “only dots and alphanumeric ASCII characters in usernames”. And not just because certain email packages may not support all the different addressing formats as specified in the [...]

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Best Buys “Crash Special Offer”

October 11, 2008

Photo by rbieber

Nuff said.

[tags]windows,crash,flickr,photos[/tags]

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Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

October 9, 2008

Infoworld: Open source CMSes prove well worth the price – " We look at five free offerings boasting solid Web publishing features that challenge their commercial competitors"
Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X – Mac HTML Editor recommended by collegue.
Mac GNU Privacy Guard – "Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG [...]

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Bookmarks for September 30th through October 6th

October 6, 2008

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree – Chronicle.com – "College is a wise choice for far fewer people than are currently encouraged to consider it. It's crucial that they evenhandedly weigh the pros and cons of college versus the aforementioned alternatives. The quality of their lives may depend on that choice. "
How to Install [...]

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