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Bookmarks for January 20th through January 22nd

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, January 22, 2009

  • 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 accounts. "
  • CruiseControl Configuration Reference (Git Support) – Nice … latest version of cruisecontrol supports git repositories. How about ant?
  • Tv's cobweb: Git for Computer Scientists – Explanation of how git works for the computer scientist.
  • My Git Workflow – "There are lots of really good articles to help you get Git, and I’m not going to try to duplicate them, nor am I going to make you a comprehensive list. Ask in the comments if you can’t find what you need, and feel free to share good resources in the comments as well. One I’ll throw out there now is Git for Computer Scientists … if you want to really know what Git is doing, this is the way to go. What I will do is give you a snapshot of my personal Git workflow(s). I have several, depending on the kind of project."
  • Tracking 2 branches in git-svn – HXBC.us / 竹難月金 – Using multiple branches in git-svn

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Bookmarks for November 21st

November 21, 2008

James Shore: Successful Software – "Technical debt sucks, and it's a particularly common problem for the teams I work with. Technical debt affects everything they do. It disrupts plans, kills productivity, and creates defects. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but strangely, these teams put very little effort into paying off the debt. [...]

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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 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 September 29th

September 30, 2008

Pub uses electronic cigarettes to beat the smoking ban – Telegraph – "The new E.cig smokes like a real cigarette and users get a shot of nicotine every time they inhale. The device even produces a cloud of water vapour with every puff, though causes no harm to smokers. "
SourceForge.net: pGina – Project that [...]

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Bookmarks for September 12th through September 13th

September 13, 2008

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability – "Rackspace faced a now familiar problem. Lots and lots of data streaming in. Where do you store all that data? How do you do anything useful with it?"
Map Multiple Locations by Address – Geocoding site – free use.
Better Searching [...]

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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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Miscellaneous Updates for February 2008

March 8, 2008

I’m doing an extremely bad job of keeping the site fresh over the last few months or so. I figured I’d give a quick update of things going on.
I’m Still Not Smoking
I finally started the Step 3 of the Nicoderm CQ program. This one has been rough. This is [...]

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Breathing Room

March 19, 2007

Photo by rbieber
My recent upgrade to an 80G iPod gives me way more breathing room than I had with the 20G, and I can finally carry family photos around to boot!

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Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson

March 8, 2007

I have about three books that I am reading on and off but have been unable to focus on any of them for any length of time. Tom The Architect mentioned a book to me a few months ago called Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web [...]

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Yahoo News: Computer Program Helps to Reduce Drinking

July 23, 2006

Look out A.A, the 12 step program might be antiquated. The University of Wales, Banglor has created a computer program that helps excessive drinkers cut down. Good God, they’ve automated the Swish Pattern!

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iTunes Music Store Faster on a Mac?

July 21, 2006

I’ve been meaning to throw this question up here for a while. Is it just me, or is the iTunes Music store a hell of a lot faster on a Mac than it is on Windows?
While I like the convenience of iTunes, I absolutely dreaded hitting the music store [...]

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iTunes Finally Converted to MacBook

June 23, 2006

Well, after about two days of file copying, I finally got all of my iTunes stuff moved over to the new Mac. Why did it take so long you ask? I’m not really sure.
Copying between the Windows box and the MacIntosh using Windows File Sharing just didn’t work unattended. [...]

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Its the little things you notice …

June 22, 2006

Now that I have a few days on the Mac using it full time, I figured I’d post up some first impressions from a new user. More than that, observations from a new user who resisted the Mac when all his friends told him to go that way in the first place.

When the light [...]

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The Flickr vs. Zoomr Thing …

June 21, 2006

I was really glad to read Stewart Butterfields response to the whole Zoomr API key thing that happened over the weekend.
The first thing I thought of when hearing about the hub-bub first on Tom the Architects blog and then on yesterdays Geek News Central (I’m a little behind lately) was the article Strategy III: [...]

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The Labs Adds A Mac

June 19, 2006

Your looking at the first post to this web site completely written on a Mac.
Yep, thats right. A Mac.
Since the release of OS X I’ve wanted to make the leap to the Mac. The idea of a Unix based system with the useability of a Mac intrigued me to no [...]

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Customer Self Service

June 9, 2006

As a customer, I like to be in control.
Our family goes out to eat at least once a week (on weekends, mostly). Many times once we are seated we spend quite a bit of time waiting for our initial drink order to be taken, then for our actual order to be taken, then [...]

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Podcasts Moved To podcast.bieberlabs.com

November 19, 2005

I’ve been thinking for a while about moving the podcasts out of the main site in order to continue doing them but see what is going on from a traffic perspective. One of the things I wanted to do was change the feeds to use FeedBurner for the podcasts alone as I [...]

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Software based IP PBX System – Sphere Communications

November 5, 2005

Yesterday I saw a presentation by Sphere Communications showing their product Sphericall, a service oriented PBX system.
The ideas in this software were really cool. The product is a software based IP PBX system which includes a SOAP based interface into the system, allowing you to completely integrate your VoIP network with your business [...]

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