- The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White – Coding the Wheel
Good stuff on programming from a book about writing.
(categories: writing quality programming softwareengineering style simplicity )
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Links: 10-11-2008
Links: 10-8-2008
- Thoughts on the Financial Crisis – O’Reilly Radar
Quote: We don’t know yet how problems in the overall economy will affect our business. But what we can do now are the things we ought to be doing anyway: * Work on stuff that matters: Assuming that the world does go to hell in a handbasket, what would we still want to be working on? * Exert visionary leadership in our markets. In tough times, people look for inspiration and vision. The big ideas we care about will still matter, perhaps even more when people are looking for a way forward. (Remember how Web 2.0 gave hope and a story line to an industry struggling its way out of the dotcom bust.) * Be prudent in what we spend money on. Get rid of the "nice to do" things, and focus on the "must do" things to accelerate them.
These are all things we should be doing every day anyway. Sometimes, though, a crisis can provide an unexpected gift, a reminder that nobody promised us tomorrow, so we need to make what we do today count.
(categories: strategy economy future business quotes )
Links: 10-7-2008
- Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up
Quote (from comments): "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." – Ann Bradstreet 1655
(categories: quotes business )
Links: 10-2-2008
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Writing Your First iPhone Application
Check the free ‘Getting Started with Xcode and Interface Builder’ movie for a good start.
(categories: iphone screencast documentation )
Links: 10-1-2008
- scottberkun.com » How to run a bug bash
Good stuff on bug bashes. Funny though: we started bug bashes on Clearspace last year, I had no idea that bug bash actually has it’s own wikipedia page.
(categories: testing software quality qa ) - ongoing · Next POTUS
Quote: "You might push back, saying “It’s not him, he just hired the right experts” and I’d point out that the single most important skill in a successful executive is recruiting and team-building." Not making a policital statement one way or the other, but I think there’s a lot of truth there.
(categories: leadership politics ) - iPhone in the Enterprise: Lotus iNotes Ultralite – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Lotus made a web-based client for the iPhone. Read the comments to see why the whole "we did a web-based app for security reasons" is a bunch of baloney.
(categories: notes iphone lotus )
Links: 9-30-2008
- Focus on Things Under Your Control
Quote: Fear and anxiety comes from lots of places, including fatigue, misinformation, and the endless blathering on of talking heads on the television. If you start feeling your anxiety level increase because of things you have no ability to influence, step back and reconsider how you are spending your time. Go for walk around the block and enjoy a nice October afternoon. Take your best friend out to lunch at a restaurant you’ve never been too. Get a good night’s sleep. Take a deep breath and – as my dad once told me, focus on things under your control.
(categories: focus life ) - Website Optimizer
Google now offers A/B and multivariate testing. Nice.
(categories: a/b testing experiments experimentation )
Links: 9-29-2008
- tap tap tap ~ The design session
… start with a fairly vague idea of the UI, refine both the way the app functions and the way it looks in one big step, then implement it all in code. Also: skitch
(categories: ux ui remote programming design workflow ) - Product and marketing in the start-up « azeem.azhar
Quote: Product management is the process of bringing a market-driven focus to companies to ensure they build products customers want to use (and buy). Product management is also about helping the company *make choices* (emphasis mine).
(categories: productmanagement marketing business startup ) - Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline
Flickr, queuing, activity.
(categories: scaling scalability queueing flickr php )
Links: 9-28-2008
- Present.ly – The Constant Awareness Communication Tool
Another enterprise twitter clone, this one supposedly better than yammer (and you can actually pay for it!)
(categories: twitter enterprise yammer presently ) - SlideRocket isn’t yet PowerPoint’s undoing. But it might be | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Pretty amazing web-based PowerPoint alternative.
(categories: sliderocket presentation software web2.0 ) - twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter – post RSS to twitter automatically
Does the opposite of the ‘feed your blog’ plugin I wrote for Clearspace: instead of posting to your blog, this takes your blog posts and feeds them to twitter.
(categories: twitter syndication twitterfeed ) - The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Skip the whole personal syndication overload thing: republishing is an interesting field, twitterfeed in particular.
(categories: republishing publishing syndication ) - Is ShareThis the next Digg? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Description: a handy little widget that site managers can install to make it easier for readers to share and save Web pages
(categories: sharethis social bookmarks sharing ) - Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Great quotes from Dr. King.
(categories: quotes life )
Links: 9-26-2008
- The class of 2012 is super wired
Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines. 14 out of 438 have a desktop computer.
(categories: wired education facebook social socialnetworks iphone )