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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 April 15th through April 16th

April 18, 2009

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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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 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 October 29th

October 29, 2008

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 [...]

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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 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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Management Decision Making Tool

April 30, 2008

Photo by rbieber
I keep this on my desk just in case someone needs me to make a decision.

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Numbers Not Up for the Quarter? Clamp Down on Bathroom Breaks!

October 28, 2005

Ford Motor Company reports a third quarter loss and decides that employees are spending too much time in the bathroom. If this were my company, I’d check the lunchroom.

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Manager Tools Podcast

September 14, 2005

Over the last couple of days I’ve been catching up on a podcast I found through iTunes called Manager Tools created by Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman. Each episode is about 30 minutes or so and give advice and useful process around things you should be doing to improve your skills as a [...]

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Am I getting the most out of my people?

February 12, 2005

Andy Kaufman of the Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development has a great blog entry on his blog on getting the most out of your people.
Some excellent points. I’m currently wrestling with metrics and how they effect productivity in groups. There’s a fine line between measuring the “convenient” rather than the [...]

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