February 2012
10 posts
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“Time, tide and formation wait for no man.”
– US Navy
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Manager Tools →
Manager Tools is focused on helping you become a more effective manager and leader.
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If you’re tired of a lot of management “theory” and would rather learn specific actions you can take TODAY, we think you’ll enjoy the Manager Tools podcast.
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“Perfeito, é o que está feito!”
– Michele Félix Rodrigues
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Oil Paintings (in Dafen of China) →
Dafen Art supplys oil painting to the worldwide in the past years, It locateed in Shen Zhen of China.
All products of Dafen Art are absolutely painted by hand on canvas or board by Chinese professional artists
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“Most artists can’t draw.”
— Roy Simmons
But all artists can *see*!”
– Seth Godin (in “The Linchpin”)
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“Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal.
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And great...”
– Seth Godin (in “The Linchpin”)
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OSH Answers: Basic Information →
Ergonomics of working in a standing position.
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Startup Tools | Steve Blank →
Awesome reference guide with tools to help start a new business.
January 2012
26 posts
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We do the following on the internet:
Consume content
Communicate
Collaborate
Produce content
I’d say the breakdown of the amount of each activity is something like 80/10/8/2, simplistically speaking (ignoring overlap, etc).
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#4 is slowly having a larger and larger overlap with the others, so much so that we produce content as we consume – tweets, comments, facebook ‘likes’, etc.
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Beeminder →
Beeminder tracks your progress toward your goals
Anything you can put a periodic number on works (…)
If you go off track, you pledge money to stay on the road the next time, and if you go off track, we charge you.
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RescueTime Product Tour (Mac/PC) →
… is a web-based time management and analytics tool for knowledge workers who want to be more efficient and productive.
… sits in the background and measures which application, web site or (optionally) document is actively being used.
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TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets... →
… we hit on a solution: randomness. The idea is to randomly sample yourself. At unpredictable times, a box pops up and asks, what are you doing right at this moment? You answer with tags each time it pings you. (…) It doesn’t work for fine-grained tracking but over the course of weeks, it gives you a good picture of where your time goes.
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Engineering Management: Why are software... →
“Wow, there are a million little twists and turns on this coast. A 40 mile day will barely get us past Half Moon Bay. This trip is at least 500, not 400 miles…”
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d →
You need to write documentation. d makes it easy:
Put a bunch of Markdown files in a directory.
Run d.
Get on with your life.
No fiddling around with configuration files, themes, version numbers, obtuse markup, or multiple output formats.
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“À primeira cai quem não sabe, à segunda quem se esquece, à terceira quem merece!”
– Hugo Ferreira (adapted)
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Errar e aprender é humano! Só “errar” é como a mosca a bater no vidro… no vidro… no vidro… no vidro…
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Format Text as a Table | Senseful Solutions →
Here’s a simple tool that let’s you format text as a table. Simply enter in tab-delimited text (e.g. by copying from Excel), then press “Create Table”.
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MBWA — Management By Walking Around →
(via Ricardo Liberato)
How Steve Jobs earned his MBWA degree (Management By Walking Around) | SmartPlanet
Jobs had mastered the art of MBWA, or Management By Walking Around. It’s a relatively simple — but way underused — best practice that keeps managers in touch with the people paying the bills or making things happen around the company.
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Three-step dance →
The structure of a Kottke post is totally elemental:
Title
Link
Pull (blockquote, picture, video)
Response
Reader comments (optional)
And that’s it. It’s the five basic units that blogs were built on, distilled to their essence. And titles and comments are important, but Jason’s done without them both. They’re paratext. The real core is link, pull, response.
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Phone Size - Phone size comparison made easy! →
Show the actual size of a phone on your screen!
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Integrated Content Editor (ICE) →
Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web.
Released by the New York Times with an online demo at GitHub.
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“… all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a love story between two...”
– Paulo Coelho
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xScope →
Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
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ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform →
ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.
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Lamport timestamps - Wikipedia, the free... →
Lamport timestamps is a simple algorithm used to determine the order of events in a distributed computer system.
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Vector clock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Vector clocks are an algorithm for generating a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations.
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Frameless →
Is Frameless a framework?
Nope. It doesn’t include any code. It’s just an idea for a specific type of adaptive grid. You can use it as a good starting point for a new design, but you’ll still have to do all the hard work of designing and coding yourself.
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Golden Grid System →
Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design.
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How to Disagree | Paul Graham →
Now we have a way of classifying forms of disagreement. What good is it? One thing the disagreement hierarchy doesn’t give us is a way of picking a winner. DH levels merely describe the form of a statement, not whether it’s correct.
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Trello | Organize anything, together. →
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.
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“Don’t tell me what to do, just show me what’s true.”
– Bernie @ discretionary dismissal
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I am done with the Freemium Business Model « Tyler... →
I have come to the realization that most people who want something for free will never, ever think of paying you, no matter how valuable they find your service.
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Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers.
Great discussions and points of view in the comments.
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Mapstraction - JavaScript mapping abstraction... →
Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.
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impress.js | presentation tool based on the power... →
Presentation tool based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers.
December 2011
8 posts
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Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a...
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The In-Depth Nokia Lumia 800 Review | The Handheld... →
In the end, the Lumia 800 is an excellent device from Nokia, one I have thoroughly enjoyed using. The out of box Windows phone experience is great and the OS definitely grows on you. The device gets a solid 8.5/10 from me, putting the Lumia 800 squarely in the recommended category.
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Online Diagram Software and Flowchart Software -... →
Gliffy’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface combines the power of traditional desktop software with the lightweight, low learning curve and flexible features of today’s most popular browser- based applications.
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Droplr • Hello →
An easy way to share images images, documents, media, files and links over the internet.
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CloudApp →
CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Here is how it works: choose a file, drag it to the menubar and let us take care of the rest. We provide you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends.
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Intercom - A customer relationship management and... →
Intercom is a customer relationship management and messaging tool for web app owners
Web site owners rarely get to know their users as anything other than rows in a database. Intercom lets web app owners leave targeted messages for their users inside their app. Intercom makes this possible through customizable in-app messaging.
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Latest Version - Matt Gemmell →
Overview of the reasons for how many OS versions software developers should support:
The solid arguments for Latest-Only
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The whiny non-reasons to support Ancient Versions
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StockLogos.com | Creative & Affordable logos →
… an identity design community offering creative, high-quality and affordable logos for download.
… each logo is sold only once.
November 2011
18 posts
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How To Safely Store A Password | codahale.com →
Use bcrypt
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SnapEngage Live chat and more... →
SnapEngage live chat helps you to sell better and help your customer more effectively with both live chat and screen captures.
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WatchMiguel - Prós e Contras (20-06-2011)
“cv” não quer dizer “curriculum vitae”, quer dizer “canal de vendas”.
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer... →
In this article I’ll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about “plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits” is not only wrong, it’s hopelessly wrong, and if you’re still programming that way, you’re not much better than a medical doctor who doesn’t believe in germs.
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The Intelligent Transport Layer - zeromq →
The socket library that acts as a concurrency framework.
ØMQ (also spelled ZeroMQ, 0MQ or ZMQ) is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ØMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker. The library is designed to have a familiar socket-style...
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