I was catching up on news and just noticed this tidbit - yesterday Google released the new Docs interface - and they also released Google Desktop - for Linux! The Google Desktop blog says:
…it includes almost all the features from the first Windows version of Google Desktop Search plus the Quick Search Box…
So [...]
Yeah - I’m not at CFUnited either
In between reading MXNA posts about that - I found this interesting article on Particletree: Web App Autopsy.
In this feature, we’d like to help you minimize those mistakes by dissecting 4 very different web application companies that are at varying stages of their life cycle. It’s [...]
If you have ever done any system administration - go read this now. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow. Winner of the 2007 Locus Award for best novelette.
He opened a chat:
> Stop probing my server
He expected bluster, guilt, denial. He was surprised.
> Are you in the Front Street data-center?
> Yes
> [...]
At my previous job I rarely took vacations outside of the typical holidays. I was always ‘too busy’.
When I quit - one thing I vowed to do was take more vacations! This weekend I went motorcycle camping in the North Carolina mountains with a local group of the DoD - a group of [...]
Client: “Can you update one field on our handheld inventory application?”
Jim: “Sure! That will be easy!!” (my downfall!)
Eight hours later I just want to stab myself with a rusty screwdriver and end it all!
I’m using Ant now to do all my deployment to our servers. Today I decided to see if I could use wget to reset my application after a build. I like to do this just to make sure after I deploy a new build - that everything is reset in case I added [...]
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