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Bookmarks for May 12th through May 28th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, May 28, 2009

  • Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin – GitHub – Git plugin for Mercurial, that adds interoperability between the two distributed version control systems.
  • git awsome-ness [git rebase --interactive] – MadBlog – Quick article describing the use of git rebase -i.
  • A List Apart: Articles: Burnout – "It's taken me the better part of a year to finish writing this article, and the reasons it took that long are tied directly to the topic at hand. If anything, the last year has made it clear that we as an industry are facing increased levels of stress, illness, and exhaustion. Having learned a few things from my own battle with exhaustion and burnout, I hope they’ll benefit others who are now or may eventually be in the same situation."
  • NOOP.NL: Self-Organization = Anarchy (Part 1) – Article talking about how self-organization is the norm for the universe – and software development teams.
  • The Git Parable – "The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation of a Git-like system from the ground up. Understanding the concepts presented here will be the most valuable thing you can do to prepare yourself to harness the full power of Git. The concepts themselves are quite simple, but allow for an amazing wealth of functionality to spring into existence. Read this parable all the way through and you should have very little trouble mastering the various Git commands and wielding the awesome power that Git makes available to you."
  • Agile methodologies aren't just for small coding projects :: SearchCIO.com.au – In this article Scott Ambler talks about how to scale agile.
  • Five whys – Joel on Software – Joel talks about an outage situation and how the team evolved from "setting SLA's" to Five Why root cause analysis and a solution that wasn't quite where they started.
  • Fraser Speirs – Understanding Git Submodules – Article explaining git submodules.

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Bookmarks for February 8th through March 11th

March 11, 2009

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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Bookmarks for February 4th through February 6th

February 7, 2009

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 3rd through January 7th

January 7, 2009

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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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 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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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 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 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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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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Bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

September 28, 2008

Updated GIT Packages for Ubuntu – This site provides more up to date GIT packages for Ubuntu than come with the distribution.
Want to attract and retain Gen Y? Better rethink everything – "In order to appeal to us, employers need to rethink their rules a bit. Forget rigid 40-hour workweeks. Forget traditional company hierarchy. "
The [...]

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Bookmarks for August 21st through August 22nd

August 22, 2008

The LEMON Parser Generator – "The Lemon program is an LALR(1) parser generator. It takes a context free grammar and converts it into a subroutine that will parse a file using that grammar."
Git merging by example – An article giving a real life example of a git merge.
Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit [...]

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Bookmarks for August 18th through August 21st

August 21, 2008

What is the deal…with Seinfeld as a pitchman for Microsoft? » VentureBeat – "I can hear it now: What is the deal with Apple? They don’t sell Apples. Why call themselves that? … Yes, ladies and gentleman, Jerry Seinfeld is Microsoft’s new pitchman."
DreamHost named as having "Democratic Workplace" – "Earlier this year DreamHost was named [...]

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Bookmarks for August 12th from 05:31 to 06:00

August 12, 2008

These are my links for August 12th from 05:31 to 06:00:

The Technology Edge: Stop Hiding Behind Your Role and Get it Done – "I've noticed some changes taking place in the culture of the Information Technology industry and to be blunt, they ain't great. It seems as IT organizations mature there is more and more [...]

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Bookmarks for August 7th through August 8th

August 11, 2008

These are my links for August 7th through August 8th:

[SOLVED] Complete solution to approve the story after being submitted – Page 4 – Pligg Forum – How to add additional link states to pligg.
Apple sued for indentured servitude > News > PC Authority – "A LAWSUIT filed Monday in California seeks class action status alleging [...]

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Current Reading – Maverick by Ricardo Semler

October 18, 2007

While I still have a few books in the queue mainly focused around TPS, I started reading Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace, the prequel to The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works.
Not too far into it yet, but riveted again. Pretty amazing story. [...]

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The Windows “Shutdown Button Project”

November 27, 2006

A really interesting article describing project dynamics around the Windows Vista Shutdown menu. I found this on Slashdot.

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A Samari in the Senate: Jason Calacanis Talks About Working in a Large Company

October 3, 2006

A portion of this weeks edition of the Gillmor Gang (MidTail Gang – part IV – ugh!) really hit home for me this week. At around 14:34 in the sub-episode, Jason Calacanis talks about how he feels as an entrepreneur working in a big company. This section lasts through the end [...]

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The Downside of Certification

May 1, 2006

I found this article, The Downside of Certification, over on Slashdot. Its about time that people stop looking at how many pieces of paper one has and instead on what they can actually DO. Certification programs have always bothered me because of the implication that if you have the certification you [...]

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