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Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 25th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Bookmarks for January 7th through January 8th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, January 8, 2009

  • 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 deployments to our staging and production clusters."
  • Oliver Steele · My Git Workflow – "Here’s my path to enlightment, and how I ended up using the index in my particular workflow. There are other workflows, but this one is mine."
  • possible/probable » Blog Archive » Failure – "On this day in 1996, Apple announced that it would be buying NeXT. At NeXT, I was making good money doing a job I enjoyed. (I had started shopping for a house!) Six months later, I was unemployed. How did this happen? I quit so that I could feel closer to failure."

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Bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, 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 traditional workplace is broken – (37signals) – "Simply put, employees are treated like children. They are not allowed to think for themselves, and there are too many layers of approval, just too much insulation that prevents anyone from doing anything. The traditional workplace is broken, and until someone realizes that, there’s always going to be conflict.”

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Radio Open Source Episode about Craigslist

by Ron Bieber February 10, 2006 Remaindered

Last night on the way home I listened to the Open Source Radio podcast about Craigslist. While I’m not sure I like the host very much (just because of how he talks over people), the whole episode was very interesting listening to the ideas and philosphies around Craigs business. This [...]

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Books: Gods Debris by Scott Adams

by Ron Bieber January 17, 2006 Books

Over a two week Christmas break, one of the books I picked up was God’s Debris : A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams. I had heard about it on the Daily Source Code where Adam Curry mentioned it extremely briefly, basically just saying that it was an interesting book and really made [...]

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Three In The Morning

by Ron Bieber September 25, 2005 General

Between 1991 and 1993, I went through a period of time in which basically all I read were books on Chinese philosophy. From Zen, to Taoism, to books by Bruce Lee (which on first glance are about fighting, but really have a whole other level to them), I read everything I could get [...]

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Favorite Quotes

by Ron Bieber August 12, 2004 General

Many times I find it helpful to remember certain things that I have heard or read in order to keep things in perspective. I really like these quotes a lot and find them really useful from time to time.

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly while you learn it.” – (friend) – [...]

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