37signals launch: The Campfire is lit. We launched Campfire today: Group chat for businesses in the browser. It's by far the most advanced Ajax application we've done, but also the most resource intensive. We're currently polling every three seconds for every user active in a chat and while we'll soon be able to regulate that… Continue reading 37signals launch: The Campfire is lit

How to fix LUA bugs. Aaron has started a series on how to fix LUA bugs. If you read his article on “What is a “LUA Bug”? (And what isn't a LUA bug?)” and want to learn how to fix your code, this is a good place to start.  [Dana Epp's ramblings at the Sanctuary]

Selling yourself is a life-time job. You have a Computer Science degree. Now what? I was doing my weekly shopping in Home Depot and I was helped by Carl, who is a recent graduate of Radford University's College of Information Science and Technology. He had a degree in Computer Science, but had been unable to… Continue reading Selling yourself is a life-time job

Where there's passion, there are stories. Anyone who is passionate about golf knows the backstory about Tiger Woods. Those passionate about film can tell a story or two about Fellini, Eisenstein, and Kubric. Those passionate about open source know the story of Linus, Stallman … [Creating Passionate Users]

Guy's 8 community-building rules.. As always, Guy Kawasaki is saying things that garage startups micro-ISVs should read, print, reread and divide into Next Actions. This time, it's how to build a community around your micro-ISV's product. This is the magic you need to be successful. [MyMicroISV]

Bush: The Biggest Spender. “Federal spending has grown twice as fast under President Bush as under President Clinton,” notes Brian Riedl, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative advocacy group in Washington, says The Christian Science Monitor. And the President's 2007 deficit appears on track to be a new record setter after all the… Continue reading Bush: The Biggest Spender

Two new interviews with Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. MySQL developer Lenz Grimmer has a quick chat with David for the MySQL developer zone. Also, uk.BUILDER.com has a long and insightful interview. David explains how 1.0 should have really been 2.0, what the continuum of database evil entails, why Rails is useful for the enterprise… Continue reading Two new interviews with Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson

Trademark power grab Big companies, their lobbyists, and their lawyers have already used political muscle to lengthen copyrights worldwide and extend the concept of patents to absurd length. The next area that they are eyeing is that of trademarks. At this very moment, there is a bill going through the US congress which would radically… Continue reading lengthen copyrights worldwide

Why SBC bought AT&TOK, there were strategic reasons that motivated the $16 billion acquisition of the remainder of once dominant AT&T  by Baby Bell SBC Communications. That deal ended with the birth of a new AT&T  and with a far more concentrated US telephone industry. The new company has a large base in local and… Continue reading acquisition

Goals for a 2.0 Library. John Blyberg has written a list of practical goals for libraries seeking to take advantage of Web 2.0 and/or Library 2.0. His goals all focus on interactivity of information, contributions from the public, self-styled information delivery, modularity, and an overal laissez-faire approach to what our users do with the information… Continue reading Goals for a 2.0 Library