Bookmarks for April 15th through April 16th

by Ron Bieber April 18, 2009 Bookmarks

Nambu native Twitter client for Mac – "In the most recent Ask TUAW, we addressed a question about Twitter (follow TUAW!), and asked readers for their favorite clients. Several users suggested Nambu, and having just put it through its paces, I can see why it's so popular."
DreamHost Blog » Democracy at DreamHost, part 2 – [...]

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Musings On The Ron Scharff and Patricia Freeman Murders in 1981

by Ron Bieber April 16, 2009 McHenry County 1981

There is a new site dedicated to the almost 28 year old case of the murder of Ron Scharff and Patricia Freeman in Lakemoor, Illinois in 1981. I’ve noticed that this site gets way higher rank than the new site in regards to this case – so I want to try to take [...]

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Bookmarks for March 27th through April 11th

by Ron Bieber April 15, 2009 Bookmarks

Matt Legend Gemmell – MGTwitterEngine – Twitter from Cocoa – Cocoa source for interfacing with Twitter API
Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture – "Technological debt is mistakenly thought of as a technical problem, but when system design cannot change according to the needs of the business, it becomes a business problem. [...]

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Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 25th

by Ron Bieber March 26, 2009 Bookmarks

CMake – KitwarePublic – CMake documentation Wiki.
Being the Change » Blog Archive » The Open Company – Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. – "Throughout time, many people have brought up more or less utopian plans for ways to make a living. But if they are never realized, it really [...]

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Bookmarks for March 18th through March 22nd

by Ron Bieber March 22, 2009 Bookmarks

Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X – "Manage your MySQL databases with the best looking MySQL Database Management App on Mac OS X. Sequel Pro is the perfect tool for working with database-driven websites and applications with support for MySQL 3, MySQL 4 and MySQL 5 databases. "
Exec pay defies [...]

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Bookmarks for March 11th through March 17th

by Ron Bieber March 17, 2009 Bookmarks

Infrastructure 2.0 – Grainger Reduces Network Expenses While Boosting Availability – "This special Infrastructure 2.0 insert in Network World reminds us of what high performance IT teams are capable of accomplishing with their existing infrastructure. Grainger was also able to automate core network services and reduce network capital and operating expenses by 50% while [...]

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Bookmarks for February 8th through March 11th

by Ron Bieber March 11, 2009 Bookmarks

Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows – "Can a dedicated Windows user make it for two weeks using only Linux? Preston Gralla tried it and lived to tell this tale."
zobie's blog // Migrating from svn to git –
Converting a Subversion repository to git – Another set of instructions for moving Subversion repositories [...]

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Piloting Git in a Subversion Environment

by Ron Bieber March 3, 2009 Git

Ron thinks about how to use Git with SVN and then it gets ruined by StackOverflow. You guys are good!

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Teach Me Cocoa – Video Tutorials for Mac Development

by Ron Bieber March 2, 2009 Macintosh

New video tutorial site on Cocoa programming by Steven Degutis.

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Bookmarks for February 4th through February 6th

by Ron Bieber February 7, 2009 Bookmarks

Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else – (37signals) – "So bottom line: Copying hurts you. You miss out on what makes something good. Instead, try to be exposed to a variety of perspectives and points of view. Take whatever you find useful and leave the rest behind. Fill in the gaps with your [...]

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Bookmarks for January 28th through February 3rd

by Ron Bieber February 3, 2009 Bookmarks

Apple – Support – Discussions – Contacts not syncing with iPhone … – If you are having trouble syncing your Address Book from your Mac to your iPhone, this is the message thread for you.
iamelgringo: Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone – "So, I don't ever want to read how web designers who don't use [...]

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Bookmarks for January 25th through January 27th

by Ron Bieber January 27, 2009 Bookmarks

Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online – "Now, Web-application developers can access product images, pricing and customer reviews, incorporating them in websites and blogs to provide a richer experience for their audience. "
Grainger and Mike Rowe Kick off Partnership, Reinforce Shared Commitment to Skilled Workforce of Tomorrow – "This week Grainger (NYSE: [...]

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Git Resources

by Ron Bieber January 26, 2009 Git

This article provides some quick information on learning the Git Version Control Software.

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Feeding The Multitudes with Unbuntu Linux Christian Edition

by Ron Bieber January 25, 2009 Flickr Picks

Photo by rbieber
I found a reference to the Ubuntu Linux Christian Edition site from the Unix and Linux Menagerie blog and just had to download it and try it out.
This is my stupid attempt at humor. Christian geeks will get it, I hope. I actually downloaded it because I’m interested in the [...]

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Bookmarks for January 20th through January 22nd

by Ron Bieber January 22, 2009 Bookmarks

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology – washingtonpost.com – "Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail [...]

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Bookmarks for January 15th through January 19th

by Ron Bieber January 20, 2009 Bookmarks

git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru – Tip site for git from the makers of GitHub.
InfoQ: Pair Programming vs. Code Review – "Theodore Nguyen-Cao described code reviewers as chickens, and paired programmers as pigs."
Coding Horror: Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly – "So I have this friend. I've told him time and [...]

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Bookmarks for January 9th through January 14th

by Ron Bieber January 15, 2009 Bookmarks

Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists | Top Stories | News.com.au – "http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/13.html"
TestKit Documentation (xUnit for MacOSX and Objective C) – An xunit toolkit for the OSX / Objective C environment.
Source Control HOWTO – "I am writing a series of articles explaining how to do source control and the best practices thereof. [...]

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Bookmarks for January 7th through January 8th

by Ron Bieber January 8, 2009 Bookmarks

Understanding Version-Control Systems (DRAFT) – Eric Raymonds draft article on version control systems and their evolution.
Our Git deployment workflow — Bryan Helmkamp – "At weplay, we recently switched to pure git version control from git-svn. Now that we've had a couple weeks for the dust to settle, I'd like to share our workflow for managing [...]

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Bookmarks for January 3rd through January 7th

by Ron Bieber January 7, 2009 Bookmarks

Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”."
has_many :through – Agile [...]

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Official McHenry County 1981 Site

by Ron Bieber January 6, 2009 McHenry County 1981

Announcement of Official McHenry County 1981 site (http://www.mchenrycounty1981.com).

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