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Archive for November 2005

The requirements/functional spec/design/delivery conundrum

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Captured beautifully in this cartoon (from digg).

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November 30, 2005 at 12:43 pm

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Joe's First Rule of Software Economics

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Make sure that the stuff you work on has more users than developers. Once you breach this threshold lots of other good rules come into play, but if you can’t kick the doors in on this one then your project is going to sink without trace.

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November 28, 2005 at 11:01 pm

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Find Music you Like

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Courtesy of Donal who works with me check out Pandora. It finds music you like based on the artists you enter and then plays it to you. It seems to work believe it or not. Goddamn, Arthur C. Clarke was right.

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November 24, 2005 at 12:23 pm

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Programmers Cheat Sheet and Calculator

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From digg (think slashdot on steroids) I got this cool ASCII Page and Calcuator. One for the bookmarks methinks….

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November 23, 2005 at 1:50 pm

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Freeline Skates

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In my past I have been known to play a little roller hockey. Core77 reports on these Freeline Skates which look to reproduce the sensation of snowboard carving on concrete. Given that a sideways profile about halves your wind resistance, I reckon these puppies could get some serious speed on.

Helmet and wrist guards are advised…

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November 22, 2005 at 10:09 am

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DRI Nails IRMA

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Digital Rights Ireland provides a exemplary legal analysis on when IRMA may have exceeded its rights during the recent attempt to sue a number of Irish music downloaders/sharers.

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November 18, 2005 at 9:49 am

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Cringely nails it again

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Robert Cringley writes a wonderful article over at PBS on why Google is about to define Web 2.0. He states,

Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency. They offer inter-datacenter communication and load-balancing using that no-longer-dark fiber Google owns. But most especially, they offer super-high bandwidth connections at all peering ISPs at little or no incremental cost to Google.

There’s more juice in the article.

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November 18, 2005 at 9:21 am

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Flock post (not!)

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Tried posting from flock today. Functionality looks great and I really want to use it but it just bales when I try to post to my (wordpress) blog. Oh Well lets wait a few release cycles.

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November 14, 2005 at 9:36 pm

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Eirepreneur call to Action

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Eirepreneur are asking irish bloggers to tag their del.icio.us entries with the tag for:oid where stands for Open Irish Directory.
You can paste this slightly modified post to del.icio.us button to your links Toolbar and it will add the tag automatically.
Of course this link won’t work as it just posts to my del.icio.us account, doh!

Ok, this just requires a bit more work on your part.

  • First go the the properties dialog of your post to delicious button on your toolbar or menu. You can get at the properties by using mouse button three and scrolling down to properties.
  • Now pop the properties dialog and go to the location entry (on Internet Explorer this is called URL). You will need to scroll right to the end.
  • Now paste the string +'&tags=for:oid' including quotes at the end of the entry
  • Now test by posting an entry.

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    November 11, 2005 at 11:11 am

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    Blue Balls

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    Somebody has a lot of time on there hands. Try and follow one of these blue balls to the bottom….

    (Thanks Mark)

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    November 9, 2005 at 12:10 pm

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