October 2009
10 posts
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For Immediate Relief: Speaking Like a Human →
Merlin Mann on NewsGator’s “NewsGator Platinum Partner Program Leverages Best Enterprise Social Computing Minds to Ensure Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Success” press release:
Regardless of the industry, audience, or purpose, this is just bad writing for non-people.
…and…
Setting aside that it’s an announcement about a future announcement, you got yourself...
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The lesson of the Sidekick failure →
I’m happy to announce that Tumblr will be releasing an easy backup tool in the coming weeks.
Ha! I knew, they’ll come up with great stuff!
A Grander K →
What is a kilogram? It’s 2.2 pounds, of course. Or is it? The kilo is the only basic international standard pegged to a physical object—a 120-year-old platinum-iridium cylinder kept in a vault outside Paris and known as Le Grand K
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★ C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX →
Snow Leopard, effectively, gives us the file-to-application binding policy of Windows 3.0.
What a great title!
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“What really matters are features and user experience, not the developer...”
– John Gruber
Something you should always keep in mind!
Carsonified » Why You Should Switch from... →
I have never worked with Git. But this article explains the key features very good, and I am curious to try it out!
You can continue to use a centralized workflow, with one central server that everyone pushes to and pulls from. However, you can also do more interesting things. For example, you can have a remote repository for each user or sub-team in your group that they have write access to,...
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Choosing a weblog platform
The process of choosing my blogging software was quite a long one. I read articles on blogging software and did a lot of testing, before I decided for one candidate.
In the end it came down to whether self-hosting my own installation of Wordpress or using Tumblr, which I don’t have to host myself.
As you can see, I decided to go with Tumblr.
Here is the whole story.
My requirements
I...