- The Tools Google Uses Internally
Cool stuff including the Google Ideas forum (rating ideas) and expert search.
(categories: google intranet collaboration tools productivity ) - scottberkun.com » Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
Quote: "Google’s culture has a resistance, or even distrust, of hierarchy – they often use voting, peer review, and debate to make decisions or decide which new projects and features to add… "
(categories: google innovation scottberkun management ) - Atlassian Developer Blog – Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment
So true: "… As a company grows, an engineer spends more time doing the software development – but paradoxically he spends less time building the things he personally wants in the product."
(categories: development atlassian google innovation management ) - Condor : High Throughput Computing
Quote: "Condor can be used to manage a cluster of dedicated compute nodes. In addition, unique mechanisms enable Condor to effectively harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations."
(categories: condor distributed cluster computing grid clusters clustering ) - Hadoop On Demand
Directions on how to setup / configure Hadoop nodes on demand.
(categories: hadoop distributed mapreduce via:aws.typepad.com ) - Blogging Roller: HOWTO: Configure Roller to use Memcached
Rollers supports pluggable caching, somebody at Sun wrote a memcached impl.
(categories: for:pmatern caching roller memcached )
I love the thought of Google’s “20%” time, and how they seem to work. And it’s obviously worked for them. It in some ways it sure seems to beat more rigid, planned, sales-driven feature development.