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Posts from January 2010

Links: 1-21-2010

TripIt for BlackBerry available now TripIt’s BlackBerry application, BlackBerry 4.3 software or newer required. (categories: blackberry mobile )

Welcome to Lucene Connectors Framework! The Lucene Connectors Framework (LCF) is an effort to provide build and support an open source framework for connecting [...]


Links: 1-20-2010

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal So need this poster. (categories: writing humor reference language funny poster )

jQuery.sheet - My = new Object(); Pretty nice looking Excel-like jQuery module. (categories: jquery spreadsheet javascript excel grid [...]


Links: 1-18-2010

On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life - This is so Meta Some interesting nuggets in here. (categories: googlewave google wave collaboration )


Links: 1-17-2010

Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee - The Rumpus.net Excerpt of a freaky blog post / discussion between someone and a Facebook engineer: "That’s right. How do you think we know who your best friends are? But that’s public knowledge; we’ve explicitly stated that we record that. If [...]


Links: 1-16-2010

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Yegge in incentives, agile and how work gets done at Google. So let me get this straight: no dates AND you get free lunches? Sounds idyllic… (categories: agile google programming incentives )

Mailinator(tm) Blog: A Beautiful Race Condition [...]


Links: 1-15-2010

ongoing · Doing It Wrong Quote: "The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is [...]


Links: 1-12-2010

Pinboard Blog Today, Pinboard has grown to about 1200 active users, and we’re coming up on our two millionth bookmark. We store about a hundred gigabytes of crawled content. From one full-time employee, the site has ballooned to a staff of 1.5. We’ve expanded to fill two servers, one hosting [...]


Links: 1-8-2010

Blogging Roller: The Jazz Connection IBM using OpenSocial in their Team Concert product, which can hook up to Lotus Connections. (categories: lotus ibm opensocial )

[this is aaronland] continuous partial [redacted] Some cool stuff around Solr / faceted search / geocoding. [...]


Links: 1-3-2010

Balsamiq Company Blog > A look back at 2009 Peldi makes $1.6m in 2009. Wow. (categories: startup entrepreneurship revenue startups business wiki )

webfinger - Project Hosting on Google Code WebFinger is about making email addresses more valuable, by letting people attach [...]


Links: 12-31-2009

Kwaga’s Diary: Did you forget me? LOVE this feature. I want this in my email right now. (categories: email collaboration discussions kwaga )