Copacetic

The requirements/functional spec/design/delivery conundrum

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Captured beautifully in this cartoon (from digg).

Joe’s First Rule of Software Economics

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Make sure that the stuff you work on has more users than developers. Once you breach this threshold lots of other good rules come into play, but if you can’t kick the doors in on this one then your project is going to sink without trace.

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Find Music you Like

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Courtesy of Donal who works with me check out Pandora. It finds music you like based on the artists you enter and then plays it to you. It seems to work believe it or not. Goddamn, Arthur C. Clarke was right.

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Programmers Cheat Sheet and Calculator

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

From digg (think slashdot on steroids) I got this cool ASCII Page and Calcuator. One for the bookmarks methinks….

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Freeline Skates

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

In my past I have been known to play a little roller hockey. Core77 reports on these Freeline Skates which look to reproduce the sensation of snowboard carving on concrete. Given that a sideways profile about halves your wind resistance, I reckon these puppies could get some serious speed on.

Helmet and wrist guards are advised…

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DRI Nails IRMA

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Digital Rights Ireland provides a exemplary legal analysis on when IRMA may have exceeded its rights during the recent attempt to sue a number of Irish music downloaders/sharers.

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Cringely nails it again

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Robert Cringley writes a wonderful article over at PBS on why Google is about to define Web 2.0. He states,

Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency. They offer inter-datacenter communication and load-balancing using that no-longer-dark fiber Google owns. But most especially, they offer super-high bandwidth connections at all peering ISPs at little or no incremental cost to Google.

There’s more juice in the article.

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Flock post (not!)

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Tried posting from flock today. Functionality looks great and I really want to use it but it just bales when I try to post to my (wordpress) blog. Oh Well lets wait a few release cycles.

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Eirepreneur call to Action

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Eirepreneur are asking irish bloggers to tag their del.icio.us entries with the tag for:oid where stands for Open Irish Directory.
~~You can paste this slightly modified post to del.icio.us button to your links Toolbar and it will add the tag automatically.~~
Of course this link won’t work as it just posts to my del.icio.us account, doh!

Ok, this just requires a bit more work on your part.

First go the the properties dialog of your post to delicious button on your toolbar or menu. You can get at the properties by using mouse button three and scrolling down to properties.

Now pop the properties dialog and go to the location entry (on Internet Explorer this is called URL). You will need to scroll right to the end.

Now paste the string +'&tags=for:oid' including quotes at the end of the entry

Now test by posting an entry.

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Blue Balls

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Somebody has a lot of time on there hands. Try and follow one of these blue balls to the bottom….

(Thanks Mark)

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