What can you hear?

From Harmony Central (great music forums bdw), found a link to a page where you can hear sample high frequency sounds. So what’s so interesting about it? Well it is a neat way to find out just how sensitive your hearing is. As we get older, we tend to lose the ability to hear the [...]

Imagine a company that uses _only_ open-source…

Doug’s Discount Paints uses only open-source software. Here’s what happened when a traditional vendor showed up.
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How I feel today

This describes it pretty well

Trouble with Eclipse update feature

For a little while now on my home computer, whenever I’ve tried to use the update site feature in Eclipse to install new plugins (Help -> Find Install new features), it would hose my connection. I mean totally hose it. To restore it i would have to enable/disable the adapter, and try again, which would [...]

To read later: Michael Yon

I’m not sure how I found this site today, but it’s been in my firefox open tabs most of the day. It’s a blog written by a Michael Yon a former green beret, that was or is, a journalist with an active US army unit in Iraq.

It’s moved!

Finally got things setup on Textdrive. Some links may be broken, but those will get fixed soon.

Done

This is good stuff:
Decisions are temporary so make the call and move on. If decisions aren’t temporary it’s not the decision’s fault, it’s yours (or your organizations, or your red tape, or…).
Done. Start to think of it as a magical word. When you get to done it means something’s been accomplished. A decision has been [...]

Lean Manufacturing and Agile Software Development

A brief description of how agile software development and in particular the Scrum methodology derive from lean concepts and thinking in manufacturing. Talks about empirical process control, speed vs. quality and eliminating waste.
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Doom + iPod = iDoom

Programmers Benjamin Eriksson and Mattias Pierre have announced that iDoom now runs on an iPod nano and features configurable controls.
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On outsourcing

via Paul Graham:
During the Bubble, a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India. I think a better model for the future is David Heinemeier Hansson, who outsourced his development to a more powerful language instead. A lot of well-known applications are now, like Basecamp, written by just one programmer. And [...]

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