Archive for January, 2005

I don’t know what caused me to do it, but tonight I finally bit the bullet and made the jump from KDE to Gnome.
I’ve been a KDE user for sometime, probably mostly out of laziness. I did switch my work desktop over a couple weeks ago but have been holding over [...]

About Google Video
Been looking around Google Video for the past couple minutes. It’s the new service from Google Labs that is geared towards letting you search the closed c
aption text listings from TV shows. It’s still in testing so who knows where/what this will materialize into in terms of the google’s regular searching [...]

SYDI – Simplifying Network Documentation
SYDI is a very cool set of scripts that allow a network administrator to easily put together a series of documents about the various (windows) PC’s on his
network. I haven’t yet used it in the office, because (1)I’m a developer and don’t have time to deal with more than the [...]

I’m sure you’re all aware that PostgreSQL 8.0 was release a couple days ago and a notable (and long awaited feature) was native support for windows.
I’ve yet to really put it through its paces on Windows, but I was impressed with the ease of install. Nothing out of the ordinary, just straight forward,
(almost) no [...]

techno.blog(”Dion”): Internal A
mazon Developer Conference
It would be nice to work for a large enough company with the resources to make something like this happen. It’s nice to go to a conference and all, but i
f you can have some of the speakers come to you, it’s far less hassle.
Over the past [...]

The company I work for is looking for a VP of Product Development (or Software Development). I have attached the job description below, qualified candida
tes are invited to contact hr@genologics.com.
Company Description
GenoLogics, a world leader in Proteomics workflow and data warehousing software, requires a VP of Product Developm
ent. GenoLogics develops and markets software that [...]

Scroogle
Just started reading SiliconBeat and came across scroogle.
Look Mom, it’s google without the advertisments.
Personally, I think its ugly and I have no beep with Googles in-search advertisements. I guess this is right up the alley of the google-watch.org support
ers. The source code for the proxy is available for download [...]

An evening with Googles Marissa May
er (alan.blog-city.com)
Alan Williamson has done a good job of keeping notes from the BayCHI talk he went to given by Google’s Marissa Mayer. It tells an interesting tale of how
the Google UI (plain as it may be) actually came to fruitation.
I like point #13, Employees are encouraged to use [...]

Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Top Ten Favorite Spots on the Microsoft Campus
Never been there myself, although I have been meaning to visit a friend of mine who has been working there for the past couple years. The above link is MS
employee Adam Barr’s top ten favourite (I’m cdn) places on campus.
Looks like [...]

Joel on Software – Camels
and Rubber Duckies
Joel Spolsky has a good article discussing various product pricing strategies and the inherent do’s and do not’s of software pricing.
His arguments for the most part are common sense but are dependent (imho) on the type of software you’re selling. People, I mean customers, always want to
[...]




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  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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