• My Dad, the Switcher: Day 7 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - "If you haven't read the story of his first day with the Mac, you might want to read that first. Yesterday, one week in, I checked in to see how he's doing."
• Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet - "Telecommuting's foes couldn't be more misguided. When gasoline costs $4 a gallon, companies shouldn't just be doing all they can to expand telecommuting — they should be scrapping their offices entirely."
• Git changes how developers manage source code versions - SD Times On The Web - "When Linus Torvalds three years ago wrote a quick mockup of a version control system for the Linux kernel project, he didn’t expect to trigger a forking revolution. But today, at Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif., Git developers gathered to work on the up-and-coming open-source distributed version control system, which is changing the way developers work."
• BBC NEWS | Business | Bosses 'should embrace Facebook' - "Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests. Attempts to control employees' use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank said."
• Roman's miles: Evolving from a software engineer to … Part II. Counting options. - "I[n] the previous blog [post] I wrote what questions and concerns came to my mind when I was lost in thoughts about future career plans, appealing positions, and challenging professional adventures. In this blog I'll try to list some options I've found beyond the pure coding positions."

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• 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 the implementation of new management, marketing, and/or manufacturing techniques. Harley-Davidson is one of those excellent companies whom has challenged traditional ideas. We intend to show through this case study that any company can follow Harley-Davidson's techniques and lead themselves to excellence." - found via 37signals
• Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback - (37signals) - "From 1973-1983, Harley-Davidson’s market share went from 78% to 23% as Japanese manufacturers flooded the market with high quality, low priced bikes. Unable to compete on price against the Japanese producers, Harley had to establish other market values and improve quality."
• Twitter squatting | NetworkWorld.com Community - Article that goes through the evidence of Twitter id "squatting".
• Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki - WikiRing Blog - "TWIKI.NET announced unilaterally that the best for the TWiki.org project would be for them to take over governance. With it comes a complete lock down of the community site. From that minute on, all long-time contributors have lost access to their code. Counter-reaction: the community has left the building, leaving TWIKI.NET without a contributing community."
• InfoQ: Working Group Formed to Produce Reusable Agile Contracts - "The working group on OpenPlans currently has a work in progress Agile contract titled ‘Money For Nothing, Change For Free’ which places strong emphasis on customer participation"

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• 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 say, “we need to do more ON less,” meaning more resources, more staffing, and more focus on fewer initiatives. The result of this approach is a prioritization of the most important and high impact initiatives and getting the new levels of resources focused for delivering results on those top priorities."
• 2000 feature requests: Our foray into Uservoice - "Question: What do you do with two thousand feature requests sitting in an issue-tracking system?
  Answer: Nothing."
• Should IT form a union? | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-09-04 | By Dan Tynan - "Life for IT workers has never been harsher. Maybe IT should organize and fight back against bosses who demand the impossible and turn to outsourcing as if it were the new scab labor. Then again, maybe not "

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• 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 do well. Tactical issues often trump strategic projects, thus SOA is slow on the uptake. "
• Ironick: Less is More - The Comic - Comic that compares Apple, Google, and the typical enterprise application. Pretty funny.
• InfoQ: How to GET a Cup of Coffee - "We are used to building distributed systems on top of large middleware platforms like those implementing CORBA, the Web Services protocols stack, J2EE, etc. In this article, we take a different approach, treating the protocols and document formats that make the Web tick as an application platform, which can be accessed through lightweight middleware."
• Julian Harris, Social Computing Guy » Second Generation Web Services: REST/WOA vs SOA - "SOA has been around a few years — and where are we? Dion Hinchecliffe’s response is, well, actually, SOA has its place, but it’s complex and inflexible and in lots of cases, REST / WOA (Representational State Transfer / Web Oriented Architecture) is likely way more sensible"
• WW Grainger: Investing in Nuts and Bolts - Seeking Alpha - "I'm talking about WW Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), a global industrial service business powerhouse. Grainger provides the nuts and bolts - and just about everything else - from one of its more than 600 branches to over 115,000 customers every day."

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• 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." Also winds up being a no-nonsense git tutorial.
• avast! antivirus - high security and protection from malware with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in - "avast! antivirus v4.8 represents a multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in for added security. It is available free for non-commercial, home use and with its fast, automatic updates avast! antivirus is already being used by more than 50 million users worldwide to provide continuous protection against all forms of malicious software."
• Password Safe - Secure Password Manager

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• 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 the economy might want to consider if they're let go."
• Ask Lifehacker: Rescue My Music from Windows Media Player WMA to MP3? - "Windows Media Player hijacked my MP3 files and converted them all to WMA. I want to change them back easily in one sweep—but am not the most savvy user. Help?"
• My Dad, the Switcher: Day Zero - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - "As a Mac user, it's fun to introduce someone new to the platform, especially someone coming from a bad Windows experience. My dad has used a PC for 25 years. Within an hour, he was ready to move to the Mac. "

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• 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 the utopian ideals of open-source radicals."
• Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models - NYTimes.com - Article around the "grow first, monetize later" or monetize from the gates being proven out by two companies: Twitter and Yammer.
• Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub « Insoshi Ruby on Rails blog - "In setting up the repositories for Insoshi, I’ve applied the version control experience I gained at Discover, where I was technical lead for the software configuration management (SCM) team. Since some aspects of our setup aren’t obvious if you haven’t managed large projects before, we at Insoshi decided to share the details so that other GitHub projects might benefit as well."
• Ticketmaster to lay off 5% of global workforce - Los Angeles Times - nuff said.
• 3 Reasons to Switch to Git from Subversion « markmcb - "After several weeks of trials, Git seems to offer major improvements over Subversion. These are my reasons for jumping on the Git bandwagon."

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• 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 a natural trend and it should be something like Theory of Everything in physics. This framework should explain why agile processes work. "
• DeHamerspace » Blog Archive » Working At Home - The Office - How being creative with space can give you a pretty sharp looking home office - using a shed.
• Stunt Software - On The Job - "On The Job is an unobtrusive, easy to use time tracker. It's not bloated with features you'll never use, yet it's powerful enough to handle all of your time tracking needs. On The Job is perfect for anyone billing by the hour."

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• 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 Architect was asking me questions about it.
• Brainwave most likely to strike at 10.04pm - Telegraph - "People are at their most creative late at night with 10.04pm the most likely time for a eureka moment, research has shown. "

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• Phalanger - The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework - Home - Title says it all.
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• Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) | BetterExplained - "Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it easy to share changes. Done right, you can get the best of both worlds: simple merging and centralized releases."

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• 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 view from the bottom - "I wanted to discuss my experiences working on building Windows 7 (as opposed to the other technical stuff that you’ve read on this blog so far), and to contrast that with my experiences building Windows Vista. Please note that these are MY experiences. Others will have had different experiences; hopefully they will also share their stories here."

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• 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!
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• Ontic Oren » Living the ultimate online agile workflow - "Over at my job, we’re just two weeks away from our first release! I thought this would be a great time to look back a little at our tools and process."
• Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Multi-tasking vs. Flow - "It’s an ongoing battle of epic proportions taking place in every office of every company in the world – completing tasks efficiently by multi-tasking or effectively by staying “in-the-flow.”"
• Distributed source control options - Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow.com has a conversation on Distributed Version Control Tools that I found interesting.
• Optimize Your Web Connection - Wired How-To Wiki - "Your broadband connection screams compared with the dial-up days of yore, but it could be faster. These days, your internet connection can't be fast enough. That is why we're here — to show you the way to a faster internet connection by tweaking the hardware and software you're using. "

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• 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 RFC. It’s also because everyone thinks they know how to validate emails but they don’t. Half the validation scripts out there is just plain wrong. You actually need a 6.4K regular expression to cover all the different addressing schemes covered by the RFC."
• Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption - O'Reilly Broadcast - Interview with Jason Fried of 37signals about the things they do differently that make them productive. My favorite quote from this interview: "A lot of times I think companies confuse enthusiasm with priority quite a bit, especially when it comes to new technologies. They're really enthused about them so they do them but they're not really high priority."
• How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions, Marketing and Advertising Article - Inc. Article - Joel on incentive programs and people who game them. Good read.
• Google chrome:Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) | Browsers & Hacks - Instructions on getting Google Chrome to work on stubborn, old, corporate hardware.

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• 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"
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• 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 VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 under VMware Fusion - Instructions for installing VMWare Tools on Ubuntu 8.04.
• FORTUNE: Trapped in cubicles - Mar. 22, 2006 - "Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea, as millions of 'Dilberts' would agree."

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