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Bookmarks for April 28th through May 8th

by Ron Bieber on Friday, May 8, 2009

  • Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide – Stack Overflow – The beginnings of a "Practical Guide to Git" being authored on stackoverflow.com.
  • Highest Voted "git" Questions – Stack Overflow – Quesions tagged with Git on StackOverflow.com
  • InfoQ: How Many Chickens Are Too Many? – "The daily scrum is an important meeting within the Agile team. During this 15 minute session, the team members share their commitments along with the impediments blocking them from moving forward. According to Scrum, only the committed team members (pigs) are allowed to speak during these meetings. Other interested people (chickens) can join in, but they should just listen. Is there a limit on the maximum number of chickens, who could attend the daily scrums? An interesting discussion on the Scrum Development group tries to answer this question."
  • Producing Open Source Software – Free book describing the Open Source development methodology and how to run an open source project. One of my favorite books on development process.
  • Agile Alliance: Agile Alliance Home – Home page of the Agile Alliance.
  • saplink – Google Code – "SAPlink is an open source project that aims to make it easier to share ABAP developments between programmers. It provides the ability to easily distribute and package custom objects."
  • Cocoa Samurai: Distributed Version Control & Git [Part 1] – "When you start using Distributed Version Control you tend to start making a lot of branches and do many more merges, it becomes you do commits and merges when you want to vs doing them in some regularity because you fear your version control system might make things harder if you don't commit or merge now."
  • Understanding Git Conceptually – "This tutorial [takes] a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe."
  • Compromising Quality for Schedule | Musings of a Software Development Manager – "I found myself silently cheering for Uncle Bob as he described a recent presentation where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because businesses didn’t value it."
  • Tuning IE7 for Better Performance
  • Facebook Developers | Facebook Open Platform – "Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FBML parser, the FQL parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags."

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Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 25th

March 26, 2009

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 November 29th through December 1st

December 1, 2008

Abusing Social Media – iphone applications – web 2.0 | Fast Company – Article talking about how companies can make themselves look stupid using social media. Some points I agree, others I don't. I think comcasts twitter participation has been a positive thing. Same can be said for starbucks.
Cost-Conscious [...]

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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 20th

October 20, 2008

Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Home – Title says it all.
DVCS Why and How – Very good write-up explaining DVCS technology and why it is valuable.
Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) | BetterExplained – "Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it [...]

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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 September 9th through September 10th

September 10, 2008

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com – "Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them." – AMAZING DEMO
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image [...]

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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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links for 2007-11-21

November 20, 2007

Simple XML Parser in C#
(tags: csharp dotnet xml)

Ecommerce Software by CRE Loaded – Shopping Cart Products – CRE Loaded Standard Shopping Cart
(tags: ecommerce opensource)

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BostonHerald.com – Technology News: Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft

June 16, 2006

Bill Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft – Article from the Boston Herald.

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Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1)

April 6, 2006

Take a look at Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1). Microsoft has got quite a lab started.

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How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source

November 13, 2005

Scott Johnson, a cofounder of Feedster.com writes an open letter to Robert Scoble articulating his ideas on How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source. Interesting read and makes a lot of sense.

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Microsoft ogles Google’s goodies

November 2, 2005

Microsoft ogles Google’s goodies – Financial Times

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Troubling Exits at Microsoft

September 18, 2005

BusinessWeek has an article called Troubling Exits at Microsoft that talks about how Microsoft employees are leaving to move to other companies such as Google. There are quotes from employees such as “There’s a distinct lack of passion, we’re missing some spunk”. Quite interesting considering the place Microsoft used to be, where [...]

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IE UI Designer Switches to Firefox

September 16, 2005

Nalla sent me this link to an article by Scott Berkun , a former Internet Explorer designer, on his switch to FireFox from Internet Explorer. Definitely an interesting perspective that you don’t normally hear.

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Massachusetts to phase out Microsoft products in favor of those based on ‘open standards’

September 3, 2005

Massachusetts to phase out Microsoft products in favor of those based on ‘open standards’ – Phase out to be completed by January 1, 2007.

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GooglePark

August 31, 2005

As mentioned on yesterdays GeekNewsCentral podcast, take a look at GooglePark! This one is pretty funny.

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Windows is weak: wheres the alternative?

August 29, 2005

According to this CNET article, now is the perfect time for a Windows alternative to strike, as Longhorn is descoped and it is getting harder and harder to find a reason to actually upgrade from XP.

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