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Don't Buy Tech Books that Don't Have Betas. By marc While I was reading the final version of Agile Web Development with Rails today, I noticed that one of the pages, page 53, looked completely different than it had when I'd read the first “Beta Book” version of it (back when it was page 51).… Continue reading Don't Buy Tech Books that Don't Have Betas

Life inside one big text file. Giles takes one of the biggest, geekiest leaps you can, moving all of his stuff into a single big-ass plain text file. [43 Folders]

IDC says IT to stay strong through 2009. Spending on IT will continue to grow for at least four more years, according to research firm IDC. The analyst house predicted that worldwide spending will reach $1.34 trillion in 2009, up from $1.06 trillion this year, IDG News Service correspondent James Niccolai reported in this story.… Continue reading IDC says IT to stay strong through 2009

Windows worms now attacking each other. The most recent crop of Windows worms continue to circulate and, what's more, security firm F-Secure said that Zotob, Bozori and IRCbot are engaged in botwarfare. “We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus writing gangs turning out new worms at… Continue reading Windows worms now attacking each other

TinyUrl vs. URL123. In our email newsletter, we usually use TinyUrl.com to shorten links. It prevents us from having to send out long links like this: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/ a_nice_customer_experience_from_american_express.php The creator of url123.com just sent us an email describing the extra oomph his service provides though. If you were to use URL123 instead of TinyUrl, you… Continue reading TinyUrl vs. URL123

FC Now: Leading Ideas: Making Communication Work. “When it comes to improving performance, most organizations' problems can be traced to their inability to think and talk together at critical moments.” — Paraphrased from William Isaacs's book Dialogue, p.3 What passes as “communication” in most organizations is nothing more than people talking at each other. Firing… Continue reading FC Now: Leading Ideas: Making Communication Work

KB articles of interest. Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 performance may be affected when desktop search engine software is running on Outlook or other MAPI client computers: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905184  [E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]

APC issue now officially has a KB article.  When you restart a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server, the computer stops responding, or the “Applying computer settings” screen appears for longer than you expect:  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905716   [E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]

Bulletproof Web Design. Bulletproof Web Design, the new book from Dan Cederholm of Simplebits, is out. It offers guidelines to help protect against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS. Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept — an existing site that employs a traditional approach and… Continue reading Bulletproof Web Design

The dirty details. While still trying to keep a bit of mystery about where I currently work, and where I'm going to be working, there are a few things that I find very interesting about my upcoming job-switch that I want to share and discuss. Mostly, I'm interested in how much of my experience can… Continue reading The dirty details