A New Job, A New System. Submitted by dougj on Wed, 2006-09-06 11:06. I look upon new jobs as great opportunities to tweak one's planning system. In fact, it's one of the only times I feel truly justified in sitting down, working out my time management strategies, and implementing a new way of doing things.… Continue reading A New Job, A New System

Argue your way around this. The worst twist in American democracy is that the voters have learned to pass the stupendous costs of the welfare state on to the next generation. It's bad enough when some voters force other voters to support them. But the American voter has learned to force nonvoters to bear his… Continue reading Argue your way around this

What Is a Virtual Librarian?. Jessamyn West has an interesting post about MassAnswers, the statewide virtual reference service for Massachussetts. It says a lot of the things that have occurred to me during the last three months, but I'd like to see more discussion about the answers piece. During the last few months, I've used… Continue reading What Is a Virtual Librarian?

We Don't Speak English: The Drama Of Tech Support. Greetings all, Steve here. I've returned from a much needed vacation and am back to work. Only one problem: After a couple of weeks off, I couldn't for the life of me think of anything to write about. I wracked my brain, but could think of… Continue reading We Don't Speak English: The Drama Of Tech Support

Educated. There’s a myth that colleges and universities are teaching antiquated web design skills: table-and -spacer-gif-ness, FrontPage 98, etc. Actually, I don’t think it’s a myth — it’s actually happening out there. So after touring Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts yesterday, I was completely surprised. CDIA offers an interactive design program with an… Continue reading Educated

Can SBS work in more than one location?. Hi susan   Please advice us on the best possible solution for this scenario. Currently we have only one office in B__. We are running SBS 2003 on our network. We use windows authentication extensively and also exchange for email. Right now we are not using Sharepoint… Continue reading Can SBS work in more than one location?

Small*Mart VT. Must read: Michael Shuman's The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. (A great companion to Bo Burlingham's Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, discussed here several times.) I pick this time to mention the book because of a local happening that occurred yesterday. My… Continue reading Small*Mart VT

Things You Shouldn't Be Doing With Rails. Kevin Clark presents “Things You Shouldn't Be Doing in Rails“. It's not a list of things Rails isn't any good for, rather it's features or concepts related to Rails that you shouldn't be using. It covers deprecated finders, the in-built pagination classes, scaffolding, engines, layouts, and namespaced controllers.… Continue reading Things You Shouldn't Be Doing With Rails

Full Text Search & Tagging with Ruby on Rails and Ferret. Johnny of Johnny's Thoughts has put together a brief article / tutorial about implementing full text search with tagging in a Ruby on Rails application. He uses Ferret, a Ruby port of Lucene, the acts_as_ferret Rails plugin, and ActsAsTaggable.    [Ruby Inside]

Early Adopter Download of the Day: Midnight Inbox (Mac OS X).  Mac OS X only: Midnight Inbox is swanky beta personal organizational software that implements the popular Getting Things Done personal productivity method. Collect, process and organize your projects, tasks and life goals David Allen-style all in one interface. This is the first public beta… Continue reading Early Adopter Download of the Day: Midnight Inbox (Mac OS X)