A lesson learned at the mall. Retailers that spend on real estate, win. The most expensive real estate in my county is a mall filled with stores. And those stores are jammed with shoppers. Almost none of them fold, none of them appear to be struggling…. [Seth's Blog]

Why hard work is “worthless”.  Self-described lazy author and entrepreneur Fred Gratzon advises you not to resign yourself to a job just to bring home a paycheck: I see squandering the better part of one's day when one is most energetic, most alert, and most creative on some “tolerable” job as a tragic waste of [...]

Streamlined. By nat One of the big differences between Django and Ruby on Rails is where the scaffolding comes in: Django gives you a sweet backend editorial administration interface but little help on the front end. Rails makes front ends easy but the back end administration help isn't there. At RailsConf today, Justin Gehtland and [...]

Relax at work (and still be productive).  Relax – and work at the same time? You've got to be kidding, right? According to Steve Pavlina, “relaxifying” your work space is crucial to productivity. There's actually quite a bit that you can do to make your workspace a soothing, happy place instead of just the building [...]

How to plan a project with a Web-based team.  If you've ever tried to do a Web-based project, then you know that it can get tricky when you start talking manpower. A List Apart has an excellent article that is really targeted towards Web design/building, but could be applied to other Web-work situations. The article [...]

AT&T Rewrites its Privacy Policy. AT&T has a new privacy policy, and if you are its customer you have no choice but to accept it. The new policy says that AT&T — not customers — owns customers' confidential info and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal [...]

Boxroom: Open source file management in Ruby on Rails. Boxroom is an open source Rails project headed by Mischa Berger to develop a generic remote file management system. The source is open for contributions, inspiration, etc, and implements user groups, user management, CRUD, uploads, and lots of other things you might want to learn about [...]

How to Choose a Designer. When building web apps, one of the most important decisions you’ll make is who will do the design work. Your app is likely to fail if the design and usability are poor. For the new web app we’re building we’ve chosen Jason Santa Maria and we couldn’t be happier. I [...]

an ode to Google, Dell, and Sun in five parts. Joyent's David Young blogged an ode to Google, Dell, and Sun in five parts. [Hack the Planet]

Patching catch 22. Prime example last week of why patching is sometimes a whole lot more complicated than it seems to be from the outside. Tuesday was patch day. For many of us in the Eastern Time Zone, who set Automatic Updates to pick up patches overnight, it's really Wednesday for all intents and purposes. [...]