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Notes to Myself

Cool Frank Zappa Quote

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

While reading the book The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, I came across the following quote that is probably the coolest one I’ve ever heard. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible”. I’ll be posting a review of the book sometime soon, but I definitely wanted to write this quote down to remember it. There’s a whole slew of other quotes here.

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The Truth about 911 – A Video

January 10, 2006

A one hour analysis of 9/11 and how it is more likely than not that the government was actually behind the attacks. I heard about this on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. This is a really well done documentary. No matter what you believe, you’ll be fully engaged by watching [...]

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Free Scrum Process Automation Tool

January 8, 2006

Nalla pointed me to ScrumWorks, a Scrum automation tool available at danube.com. Apparently its free with site registration. I haven’t looked into it in any semblence of detail, but thought it was worth a note to myself and a later look into the details.

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Turning Wordpress into a tag-based blogging application

August 16, 2005

Turning Wordpress into a tag-based blogging application. This is something I’m definitely going to have to look at.

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Recording skype to MP3 – How to

August 6, 2005

Recording skype to MP3 – How to – A note to myself to try this later.

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Audio Books and the iPOD

June 29, 2005

Another note to myself:
Currently I have three books going at once. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, and The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth all recommended to me [...]

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The DoJo Toolkit

May 13, 2005

There is a new project (currently in .01 status) called The Dojo Toolkit. From their site, the goal is to “create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers”.
There is also an Introduction to Dojo on the site that [...]

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Publishing CruiseControl Automated Build Results on a Weblog

April 21, 2005

Lasse Koskela has implemented a CruiseControl Publisher that supports the Weblog API.
This is an interesting concept. Managing your build system through weblog software. I’m interested in seeing how this would work and what effect blogging software could have on the productivity / mind sharing activities in a development team. [...]

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Cobertura – Java Test Coverage Tool

April 19, 2005

As a note to myself, I found a reference to Cobertura this morning as I was reading through the CruiseControl mailing list. Cobertura is a tool to calculate the percentage of code accessed by tests (test coverage).
According to the FAQ, this is a fork of the jcoverage tool, with “prettier reports” and [...]

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Ruby on Rails gets Ajax Support?

March 24, 2005

I found an article on Dougal Campbells weblog about how Ruby On Rails now has built in Ajax support.
While we’re on the subject, there is also the Simple Ajax Toolkit for PHP that deserves a look as well.
These are two things I definitely need carve out some time to look at, and are hereby [...]

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Base-Art / Bringing RSS to SVN

March 4, 2005

For a while I have wanted to be able to build RSS feeds off of the commit activity in a Subversion repository in order to publish the latest commits to an internal intranet site. I found a blog article called Base-Art / Bringing RSS to SVN this morning that makes this possible.
This [...]

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100% Pure Java Subversion Client Libraries

February 25, 2005

As a note to myself, I have to look at JavaSVN when I get a chance. Its a pure Java implementation of a Subversion client.
Some things I have to research:

What would it take to integrate this into CruiseControl to eliminate the need for the Subversion client being installed on the box?
What would it [...]

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Trac: Integrated SCM and Project Management

February 14, 2005

This post is more a reminder to myself than anything else. As I was browsing the wordpress plugin repository I saw they are using version 0.8 of a product called Trac that integrates with Subversion and provides basic project management and defect tracking.
The site says the software does the following:

An integrated system [...]

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