Also: As of some day really soon, Gawker Media Web sites will not be supported in Safari, both on iPhone OS and OS X. Purely for technology reasons. Same for advertisements sold by Google. They were fine in the PC era. But now they just look ugly. Our users don’t want them on their Macs.
(Link: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : We are removing Flash support from OS X)
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Plenta™ (128 fl oz) and Micra™ (2 fl oz) cups arrive in Starbucks stores this Fall. Derived from Italian word for plentiful or small, the Plenta™ delivers coffee lovers record amounts of the world’s finest coffee beverages while the Micra™ delivers a quick and satisfying morsel of goodness.
(Link: Starbucks launches “Plenta” 128-oz coffee)
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Find that Dilbert strip!
Have you ever thought of a comic strip but could not find it? It takes hours to look through your book collection.
Here is what to do: Simply enter one or two words into the search box on the sidebar. You will get a list of Dilbert strips by date, a short description and where to find them in the books, if they have been published, and a link.
(Link: About the Dilbert Strip Finder)
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The End of the World Email
URGENT!!! System is down! NONE of our users can do XYZ! Please advise!!!11!
(Link: The 4 Types of Emails Programmers Receive)
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Rule 1 is the basis for your economy. You become a superstar by owning more code in the project than anyone else. You invest in your economy by writing new code, or converting existing code to your own, because every area of code you own generates you productivity and reputation.
Rule 2 is aggressive. Expand into other people’s areas and modify their code to make sense to you. Let people see that you’re touching a lot of code – it is good for your reputation. However, you have to be careful when going on the attack. Rewriting code carries a certain reputation penalty, but more about that later.
Rule 3 is defensive. Make it difficult for other people to work in your code or fix bugs in it – for every hour they spend fixing bugs you’ve accomplished another hour of fresh code rewrite somewhere else, thus increasing your control over the board.
(Link: 3 Simple Rules That Will Make You a ‘Superstar’ Developer « yield thought)
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A key lesson Jigsaw has learnt however, is that when you empower team members with a certain level of responsibility they will often exceed your expectations and perform above and beyond.
If as a project manager you have trust issues with team members and feel uneasy delegating key tasks to them, but at the same time clearly have a packed work schedule building death traps, you could start by delegating lower risk tasks to test the water.
(Link: What Jigsaw Can teach Us About Project Management)
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Enroll now but just don’t mention it to anybody.
(Link: Saturday Night Live – University of Westfield Online)
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“”have you ever met anyone who said they’d really like to try out that Interwebs thing, but they’re just put off by the low-quality operating systems and browsers that are available at this time, so they’re sitting it out for now? ”
(Link: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: on Chrome OS)
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(Link: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation)
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(Link: YouTube – The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations)
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Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) Keynote: I missed Chris’s keynote but you can watch it here. He titled it “How To Become a Famous Ruby Rockstar or Rails Ninja” but it’s partly tongue-in-cheek and moves into other territory.
(Link: Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) RailsConf 09 Keynote on blip.tv)
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool
that looked just like Excel?
(Link: Spreadtweet : excel sheet twitter client)
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