Sponsorised links
June 2009
benefits of goji berries
May 2009
Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow - O'Reilly Radar
Asymmetric follow should at least be an option on any social network. It’s the way the world really works. We never find ourselves in clearly delineated friend-circles, where everyone has or wants complete visibility with everyone else, or none at all.
inSSIDer | MetaGeek
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April 2009
Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - US: Who Benefits from Circuit City Closure Online
March 2009
Great Places to Work: Where to Launch a Career - Washingtonian.com
Plantr. Using Recycled Cell Phones to Promote Sustainability and Teach Urban Gardening.: ETech 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, March 09 - 12, 2009, San Jose, CA
Plantr will help form a simple introduction and social understanding to urban agriculture and the numerous benefits it can afford… all while recycling unused, landfill bound, cell phones.
February 2009
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship | Berkman Center
Objective: The undersigned believe that it will benefit legal education and improve the dissemination of legal scholarly information if law schools commit to making the legal scholarship they publish available in stable, open, digital formats in place of print. To accomplish this end, law schools should commit to making agreed-upon stable, open, digital formats, rather than print, the preferable formats for legal scholarship. If stable, open, digital formats are available, law schools should stop publishing law journals in print and law libraries should stop acquiring print law journals. We believe that, in addition to their other benefits, these changes are particularly timely in light of the financial challenges currently facing many law schools.
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RabbitMQ - Open Source Enterprise Messaging
RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable Enterprise Messaging system. The RabbitMQ client libraries and broker daemon can be used together to create an AMQP network, or used individually to bring the benefits of RabbitMQ to established networks.
téléchargé, décompressé, make, make run et en voiture Simone!
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle
According to the Times's Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter on raw materials and $148 million on wages and benefits. We've heard the wages and benefits for just the newsroom are about $200 million per year.
After multiplying the quarterly costs by four and subtracting that $200 million out, a rough estimate for the Times's delivery costs would be $644 million per year.
The Kindle retails for $359. In a recent open letter, Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis wrote: "We have 830,000 loyal readers who have subscribed to The New York Times for more than two years." Multiply those numbers together and you get $297 million -- a little less than half as much as $644 million.
December 2008
Can You Make Wine from Seedy Fruit?
November 2008
Introduction to OSC | opensoundcontrol.org
European Semantic Web Conference 2009 - Semantic Web in Use
October 2008
ADC—Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby
Now with MacRuby, you can create Mac OS X applications with Ruby while maintaining the peformance benefits of a fully fledged Cocoa application.
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Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Video captioning made easy with the YouTube JavaScript API
discipline and punish
I still have to wonder if, in fact, outsourcing the data is a smart move for any enterprise in these troubled times. There are certainly immediate, clear cost-savings benefits to such a strategy but given that data is the heart of any enterprise one should wonder if the long-term benefits aren't diminishing.
Destroy Today / DestroyFlickr
September 2008
TextUML Toolkit, use a textual notation for creating UML class diagrams faster
TextUML Toolkit is an open-source IDE for UML that lets you create models at the same speed you write code. By adopting a textual notation, the TextUML Toolkit provides benefits you will not get elsewhere
Text ftw!
August 2008
Yuuguu Newsletter » Yuuguu bridges gap for CINTIQUE Translations
Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software
Using Evidence-Based Scheduling is pretty easy: it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it’ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet. The benefits, though, are huge: realistic schedules.
Realistic schedules are the key to creating good software. It forces you to do the best features first and allows you to make the right decisions about what to build. Which makes your product better, your boss happier, delights your customers, and—best of all—lets you go home at five o’clock.
A more general approach that the SCRUM one I got so far.
