Four Leaders You Need to Know. They may not be CNBC regulars, but this fab four represent what`s needed today: CEOs with vision who also aren`t afraid to get their hands dirty. [Fast Company]
Month: March 2005
A variety of product recommendations
A variety of product recommendations. Here are some things I've been finding valuable as of late: The $10 bill. Everyone else usually has 20s. Be the champ and keep 10s in your pocket. Flysketch (Mac OS X) is a really useful little tool that lets you quicky annotate screenshots with boxes, highlighter, text, etc, and… Continue reading A variety of product recommendations
Edinburgh UK's second most prosperous city
Edinburgh UK's second most prosperous city. THE SCOTTISH capital is only narrowly beaten on GDP per head, while other Scots cities defy perception of country being economically backward. [The Scotsman]
Bill Gates picks up honorary knighthood from Queen
Bill Gates picks up honorary knighthood from Queen. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will receive an honorary Knighthood from the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Gates has been awarded the title KBE, or Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for… Continue reading Bill Gates picks up honorary knighthood from Queen
Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable'
Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable'. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, urged Congress to scrutinize both spending and taxes to solve the problem. By EDMUND L. ANDREWS. [NYT > Home Page]
New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans
New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans. Americans are increasingly resistant to the president's plan to revamp Social Security, according to a Times/CBS News poll. By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER. [NYT > Home Page]
Agile Web Development with Rails in July
Agile Web Development with Rails in July. It has been made official. The title of the first Rails book is going to be Agile Web Development with Rails and its currently being written by Dave Thomas. A small group of reviewers, including yours truly, have been reviewing the first chapters as they come of Dave’s… Continue reading Agile Web Development with Rails in July
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One of my favorite lines from the musical Camelot: “Winter is forbidden 'til December . . . and exits March the 2nd, on the dot.”
Another tale about Rails scaling
Another tale about Rails scaling. TJ Vanderpoel is currently preparing a case study on how he scaled his mortgage processing application with a single lighttpd web server powered by a cluster of FastCGI application servers. All using Ruby on Rails. But as a counterpoint to the latest round of FUD’ing, he posted this preliminary tale… Continue reading Another tale about Rails scaling
Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends)
Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends). Tonight I happened to be in a room where a commercial for Fox News was on the television. I heard a teaser for a news item – a curfew has been proposed for teenagers in New York City. Appalled at such an idea, I flew to… Continue reading Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends)