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Novell Packs Plenty in SUSE Linux 9.3. Like Ragu, it's all in there: Centrino support, latest OpenOffice, virtualization tools, iPod file transfer and Mono, to name a few of the 3,000 open source packages. [Datamation Product News]

Microsoft ties the knot with Groove. My former employer purchased Groove today, making official what was already a very close working relationship. I’d like to be optimistic about what the acquisition will mean for the information worker part of Microsoft’s business. But let’s look at the track record that the Information Worker business unit has… Continue reading Microsoft ties the knot with Groove

The power of readable metaprogramming. Oliver Steele is Chief Software Architect at Laszlo Systems and he’s digging into Ruby on Rails: During my last vacation it took about five lazy vacation days with Ruby on Rails to implement a fairly sophisticated 40-page web application with five models, two metamodels, CRUD, cookies, image upload, and login.… Continue reading The power of readable metaprogramming

The story behind Rails at O’Reilly. Jason Fried from 37signals talks about the origins of Rails with Marc Hedlund from O’Reilly: Ruby on Rails is the open source web application framework we extracted from Basecamp. When we built Basecamp we didn’t know we were building Rails at the same time, but that’s exactly how it… Continue reading The story behind Rails at O’Reilly

Stever Robbins on email overload. Great article on dealing with high email volume that focuses on what you can do to craft email messages that are easy to process, read, and answer. [43 Folders]

Groove and a few other things. I saw the announcement today that Groove is being acquired by Microsoft and Ray Ozzie is joining as another CTO. Congratulations to Ray and all the Groove people! I hope this is good for you. For Massachusetts, this is a great thing: Microsoft finally has a real development office… Continue reading Groove and a few other things

How to start a startup. Paul Graham writes another of his usually interesting essays, this one on How to start a startup. I think he is insufficiently worried about the dangers of venture/vulture capital, but his three core principles are sound. [Ceejbot]

It's the Bill and Ray show. It was only a matter of time (and money)… Microsoft is swallowing Groove Networks. For several years, I've had an intense love-hate relationship with Groove. It's absolutely fantastic to have instant, secure workgroups and a place to put all your data that is not a fragile hard drive or… Continue reading It's the Bill and Ray show

Tinderbox 2.4. Tinderbox 2.4 is now available! It's got tons of important new features: sticky and locked adornments powerful and fast rules smarter agents lots of new XML/HTML export tools The overnights are great: “Huzzah! ….All sorts of new goodies… I will be sorely tempted to spend the rest of this week digging into the… Continue reading Tinderbox 2.4

Eyesite. This is how people look at search results: It's not a theory, it's all sorts of fancy science put to good use. And yes, my headline is a pun. Think about this the next time you want to save a few shekels on where you show up on the screen. Now that we've trained… Continue reading Eyesite