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Bookmarks for July 23rd through July 28th

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

  • Woman Sued for $50,000 Over a Tweet – "Horizon’s Jeffrey Michael is quoted in the Sun-Times as saying “The statements are obviously false, and it’s our intention to prove that”, adding that Horizon has a good reputation to protect. Bonnen wasn’t contacted before the suit was filed or asked to remove the Tweet, he said: “We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization”."
  • OpenSymphony – Welcome To OpenSymphony – "OpenSymphony is an Open Source project dedicated to providing enterprise class J2EE components. Our components aim to stress simplicity, integration, pluggability and specification compliance. Please see the individual projects for more information. "
  • 13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes | Web Design Ledger – Resources for building Wordpress Themes.

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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 April 15th through April 16th

by Ron Bieber on Saturday, 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 – "we’re going to let a few of our workers tell you in their own words what it means to be democratic. These comments come from all parts of our organization from recent hires as well as from people who have literally helped us build the company."
  • Top 13 Twitter Don'ts – Features by PC Magazine – "The number of new Twitter users has soared over the past few months, as the microblogging service has taken the media by storm. If you're one of those new users, you may be baffled by Twitter's peculiar culture, or nervous that you'll commit some kind of microblogging faux pas. Don't worry, we're here to help."

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Bookmarks for March 27th through April 11th

by Ron Bieber April 15, 2009 Bookmarks

Matt Legend Gemmell – MGTwitterEngine – Twitter from Cocoa – Cocoa source for interfacing with Twitter API
Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture – "Technological debt is mistakenly thought of as a technical problem, but when system design cannot change according to the needs of the business, it becomes a business problem. [...]

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Bookmarks for January 25th through January 27th

by Ron Bieber January 27, 2009 Bookmarks

Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online – "Now, Web-application developers can access product images, pricing and customer reviews, incorporating them in websites and blogs to provide a richer experience for their audience. "
Grainger and Mike Rowe Kick off Partnership, Reinforce Shared Commitment to Skilled Workforce of Tomorrow – "This week Grainger (NYSE: [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th

by Ron Bieber October 24, 2008 Bookmarks

14 things to do if you are laid off from a tech job | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET – "Geeks and other tech employees are a little different from the vanilla workforce, though, so I wanted to put together a list of specific things that people in our part of [...]

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Bookmarks for August 22nd through September 2nd

by Ron Bieber September 3, 2008 Bookmarks

37signals Product Blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch, and stay lean – "Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software and GitHub is "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration." GitHub's Chris Wanstrath wrote to tell [...]

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