Archive for November 2005
The requirements/functional spec/design/delivery conundrum
Joe's First Rule of Software Economics
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.
Find Music you Like
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.
Programmers Cheat Sheet and Calculator
From digg (think slashdot on steroids) I got this cool ASCII Page and Calcuator. One for the bookmarks methinks….
Freeline Skates
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…
DRI Nails IRMA
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.
Cringely nails it again
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.
Flock post (not!)
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.
Eirepreneur call to Action
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.
+'&tags=for:oid' including quotes at the end of the entry
Now test by posting an entry.
Blue Balls
Somebody has a lot of time on there hands. Try and follow one of these blue balls to the bottom….
(Thanks Mark)
