Brent Sordyl’s blog

David Seah’s combination of the Compact Calendar and a Gantt chart
(Link: Manual Gantt Charting in Excel)

Uncategorized davidseah, excel, gantt

New to Dirpy? Use Dirpy to convert your favorite YouTube videos to mp3’s!
(Link: Dirpy – Mp3 Converter and Open Directory Search Beta)

Uncategorized mp3, youtube

The site boasts 35 trained journalists, who cover everything from local government to University of Michigan football. The stories seem short for now, but that’s not a conscious editorial strategy. “I think we’re finding our voice,” Dearing said. “No reporter’s being told, ‘Don’t write more than 200 words,’ or anything like that. They write what they need to say to tell a story.”
(Link: In Ann Arbor, designing a news site that doesn’t look like a news site » Nieman Journalism Lab)

Uncategorized newpapers

Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams.

We know that you don’t have time to get a server up and running and then configure and secure code repositories, ticketing systems and valuable project management tools.
(Link: Unfuddle: Subversion Hosting, Git Hosting, Bug and Issue Tracking)

Uncategorized collaboration, hosting, projectmanagement

Organize your thoughts, tasks, inspirations, ambitions and so much more.

If you’ve ever made a list, torn a page from a magazine or bookmarked a Web page “for future reference,” Ript is the tool for you. It puts the “fun” back in functionality, so you can get more done, in less time… with less stress.

Part scrapbook, part “to-do” list (or to-buy list), Ript mimics the actions of ripping, piling and arranging scraps of information. If you can see it on your computer, you can “rip” it. Simply drag and drop images and text from the internet or your computer and arrange them however you please — making it easy to compile, print and share your handiwork.
(Link: Ript™ – mimics the actions of ripping, piling and arranging scraps of information)

Uncategorized design

# Dive deep into hierarchical levels of application information and then surface back to the top easily
# Switch between different main pieces of functionality without losing your place on one when moving to another
# Edit and adjust information without losing your place contextually
# Display a list of information or choices
(Link: iPhone Application Design Patterns — Flyosity: Mac & iPhone Interface Design)

Uncategorized appstore, designpatterns, development, iphone

While Bittman says it will take years for private clouds to develop, some early adopters are already “Google-izing” their own data centers. Bechtel, for instance, is using the software-as-a-service computing model internally to provide IT services to 30,000 users, in a project that relies heavily on server and storage virtualization.
(Link: Private cloud networks are the future of corporate IT)

Uncategorized cloudcomputing, private

1. Should have released lite version from the beginning
2. Lite does NOT cannibalize sales
3. Get the bugs out for your lite release
4. Lite sales trail off too but paid sales remain higher
5. Frequent releases do juice downloads
(Link: Just How Much Does a Lite Version Help Boost App Sales? « The App Farm)

Uncategorized appstore, iphone, marketing

3-2-1 launch promises a lot to customers. What processes allow you to get so much work done in so short a period of time?
The short answer: Rails.

We also only hire top talent. We don’t interview. We come make them pair with an actual project for a week. The original hires all came and worked for free before an offer was made. Anyone can fake an interview but nobody can fake a week of pair programming with 2 or 3 other top developers. Obie pairs with everyone also, as it is ultimately his brand to maintain.

The other key aspect to meeting this goal is to help our clients learn how to release just their core app initially. In other words, teach them how to “Get Real”.
(Link: Hashrocket Founders Interview:)

Uncategorized atg, hashrocket

This guide covers ways in which you can become a part of the ongoing development of Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with:
* Using Lighthouse to report issues with Rails
* Cloning edge Rails and running the test suite
* Helping to resolve existing issues
* Contributing to the Rails documentation
* Contributing to the Rails code
(Link: Contributing to Rails)

Uncategorized contributing, opensource, rubyonrails

mPayy accounts for individuals enable secure electronic payments directly from your checking account. Shop or send money to friends online, with your mobile device or through your favorite social network. Earn Cash Back Rewards when you shop with mPayy.
(Link: mPayy – The Mobile Payment Company)

Uncategorized mobile, payments

At the root of all of these issues is the dreaded phrase “business/IT alignment.” It seems that the larger the organization, the more difficult it is to align IT capabilities with business drivers. Sometimes the problem is that the business asks for a particular solution without understanding the problem (like the DoD’s SOA mandate), or perhaps a combination of politics and communication issues interfere with business/IT alignment (the enterprise morass), or in other cases IT jumps the gun and delivers what it thinks the business will want (the capability conundrum). In none of these instances is the problem specific to SOA.

SOA, however, can potentially be part of the solution.
(Link: Is your SOA hammer looking for a nail?)

Uncategorized soa

ScheduleThing makes it easy to take your scheduling and reservations to the web: from a ten minute conference room reservation to a month-long vacation home rental. Book simple appointments or make complex reservations that require the availability of multiple resources – people, places, or things. No matter how complicated your scheduling is, ScheduleThing makes it easy for your customers to book online.
(Link: ScheduleThing | Online scheduling and reservations for any business)

Uncategorized scheduling

SchooNoodle is the place for K-12 educators to discover and share great web content that is aligned with state standards. All free!

From websites to videos to news, SchooNoodle identifies the best resources, as rated by teachers (like you) from around the country! And you won’t find editors at SchooNoodle — we’re here to provide a place where teachers (not school districts or government agencies) can collectively determine the value of content.
(Link: SchooNoodle – Content for teachers, rated by teachers.)

Uncategorized content, e-learning

I’m a software engineer working at Hulu. While our site is built using Ruby on Rails, parts of our back-end are built on other platforms. Naturally our player is in Flash, and we have a code base built on top of .NET as well. We’re looking for really talented engineers for each of the tech stacks that we’re using, and no matter the technology we’re always looking for people who’re great at CS fundamentals. Hope this helps!
(Link: Hulu runs on Ruby on Rails)

Uncategorized iptv, rubyonrails