From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Bookmarks for November 24th through November 29th

by Ron Bieber on Saturday, November 29, 2008

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The Murder of Ronald Scharff and Patricia Freeman – McHenry County 1981

November 22, 2008

The son of Ronald Scharff, who was murdered in Lakemoor, Illinois in 1981, finds out who killed his father and his employee Patricia Freeman, and wants him officially named in the crime.

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Bookmarks for November 21st

November 21, 2008

James Shore: Successful Software – "Technical debt sucks, and it's a particularly common problem for the teams I work with. Technical debt affects everything they do. It disrupts plans, kills productivity, and creates defects. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but strangely, these teams put very little effort into paying off the debt. [...]

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Bookmarks for November 18th through November 20th

November 20, 2008

The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis – O'Reilly Radar – "There is a debate brewing among data systems cognoscenti as to the best way to do data analysis at this scale. The old guard in the Enterprise IT camp tends to favor relational databases and the SQL language, while the web upstarts have rallied around [...]

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Bookmarks for November 14th through November 16th

November 16, 2008

Featured Windows Download: ISODisk Mounts up to Twenty Disk Images – ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive.
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities – "I am sharing [...]

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Implementing Open Source Defect Tracking as a Corporate Tool – An Update

November 16, 2008

Note: This article was started around March or April of this year – and I just got the motivation to finish it – because I thought it was important. I hope I did the original idea justice all these months later.
Back in October of 2007 I had written about starting to implement [...]

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Bookmarks for November 10th through November 11th

November 11, 2008

Cutting I.T. Costs – And We Do That How? - Phurnace Software – With already limited staff and expectations on IT going up – how do you continue to cut costs? Automate.
InfoQ: Presentation: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams – "In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, [...]

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Bookmarks for November 5th through November 8th

November 8, 2008

Fraser Speirs – A Subversion User Looks at Git – "Git’s rethink of the entire content management problem enables some powerful new capabilities."
How To Do What You Love Without Selling Your Soul | Zen Habits – "What I’ve come to realize, is by focusing on providing value to others, most of the marketing aspect takes [...]

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Bookmarks for November 5th

November 5, 2008

iPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone | TheAppleBlog – Tutorial on creating an RSS reader for the iPhone.
AROS Research Operating System – "The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable [...]

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Bookmarks for November 3rd through November 4th

November 4, 2008

Prawn – prawn – "Prawn is a fast and nimble PDF generator written in pure Ruby. "
The Role of the Core Development Team in an Agile Project – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – "This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative [...]

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Using Things To Get Things Done

November 3, 2008

Ron’s “review” of using Things Desktop for Mac with Things for iPhone to “Get Things Done”

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Bookmarks for November 2nd through November 3rd

November 3, 2008

JBoss.com – JBoss jBPM – "Create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. Designed for SMB and large enterprise applications alike, JBoss jBPM brings process automation to a much wider set of business problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business process orchestration and BPM. "
InfoQ: John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source – [...]

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Bookmarks for October 31st

November 1, 2008

FFI for Ruby Now Available | JavaWorld's Daily Brew – "FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. FFI has been implemented in various libraries; one of them, libffi, actually serves as the core of JNA, allowing Java code to load and call arbitrary C libraries. libffi allows code to load a library by name, retrieve a [...]

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