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Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks. As most readers know, I am a fan of Joel on Software. My company typically runs on a 12/12 from the Joel Test. (We have our moments). Anyways, if you are a fan of Joel you know about Project Aardvark. If you don't, it was a summer intern project that… Continue reading Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks

Learn how to make Rails fast from a master. Stefan Kaes has been untiringly pushing for optimizations of Rails. Since the release of Rails 0.12.1, Stefan has lead an effort that made his own sample application no less than 4 times faster with Rails 0.14.x. Pretty impressive stuff. Now he’s blogging about Rails performance in… Continue reading Learn how to make Rails fast from a master

How to implement a strategy Knowledge management expert James Robertson offers 10 principles of effective information management . Robertson's paper is specifically about knowledge management implementations, but I think the principles apply equally well to the implementation of any strategy. Here is a summary of Robertson's 10 principles: 1. Recognise (and manage) complexity: There is… Continue reading How to implement a strategy

Diocese property deals net $90m. Since the summer of 2003, the Archdiocese of Boston has sold or reached agreements to sell more than $90 million in real estate, a Globe review has found. That sum is in addition to the $99 million sale of the cardinal's residence and surrounding property in Brighton last year. [Boston… Continue reading Diocese property deals net $90m

Doesn't everyone get goosebumps when http://domain/connectcomputer works on a MCE?. So I used the “ Banana hack ” to get the domain bits back enabled under the hood on my Media Center Edition and just for grins I didn't manually install/join the domain. I wanted to see if all of SBS's wizards would work. There's… Continue reading Doesn't everyone get goosebumps when http://domain/connectcomputer works on a MCE?

Haunted Mansion. Here's a totally cool site: all about the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. [Kevin Schofield's Weblog]

Paul Graham on the VC Squeeze. I like what Paul is doing with VC. His Y Combinator makes a lot of sense. When I read the name I always say “Y C” as in “why take capital?” I think Paul’s small-dollars approach to VC is a good answer. After all, less money is a competitive… Continue reading Paul Graham on the VC Squeeze

David Pogue stands up for the little guy. David Pogue rants against annoying plastic packaging, the number of times customer support lines ask for phone or credit card numbers, power strip bricks, and more in 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers. I. Thou shalt not entomb thy product in indestructible plastic. Sure, we understand… Continue reading David Pogue stands up for the little guy

Komodo 3.5: IDE with support for Ruby on Rails. RadRails is getting company from commercial player ActiveState that has recently shipped Komodo 3.5, their IDE for dynamic languages. Komodo features support for Ruby and Rails and is available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Komodo Professional is a $295 buy, Komodo personal is $29.95,… Continue reading Komodo 3.5: IDE with support for Ruby on Rails

Exchange Tools Update. Yesterday Microsoft released several updates to important tools for Exchange: First, the PFDAVAdmin tool has been updated to version 2.4 and finally been made a supported tool, which it wasn't before.  You can get the latest version here.   [MS Exchange Blog]