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The power of 'we don't do that here' The furore over the past fortnight of Australia's cricket 'ball-tampering' scandal was a great prompt to reflect on character and culture. Source: AAP/Brendan Esposito/via REUTERS Although the indignant reactions of Australia's
20:20 hindsight — Apple in 2006 Reading a case study for my EMBA class this week was rather fun — looking at Apple Computer, circa 2006. (source: https://hbr.org/product/Apple-Computer--2006/an/706496-PDF-ENG). Writing in August 2017 the past
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Tracking WordPress with Git I use Git and want to track upstream WordPress. [UPDATE] I was using a utility here called svn2git. That was crazy. Now I’m just using git-svn and it rocks. Here’
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Talk is cheap. Show me the code.Linus Torvalds on the Linux Kernel Mailing List https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132
Teams Genuine insight from Pixar on managing effective teams Ryan Singer from 37signals mentioned this vid from Stanford GSB Pixar founder Ed Catmull addresses the question: “Why do ‘successful’ companies fail?” What’s more important? Great people
Kaltura Yes, lecture capture sucks... now what? Fellow contrarian Mark Smithers writes on the phenomenon of widespread, automated lecture capture in education›: the large scale implementation of lecture capture is probably one of the costliest and strategically misguided educational technologies
Most of the things you read on the internet are just plain wrong. Always remember that. Most of the things you read on the internet are just plain wrong. Always remember that.Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs)
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.Robert Frost (I’ve been thinking about putting this on the presentations I seem to
Java Yesterday I posted about how LinkedIn is using JRuby with Java - YouTube then suggested this next vid in a similar vein - hugely valuable...
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.George S Patton
Java At UNE we have the legacy of a massive number of Java apps and Java infrastructure. It seems like that’s one small thing we have in...
Osx Unzipping massive files on OSX OSX Snow Leopard has a command line zip/unzip utility… Today I needed to unzip a MASSIVE (10GB) zip file (for Adobe LiveCycle - but that’s another story)… and
Enterprise? A colossal spaceship from the 80's flown by people with bad taste: Highly advanced, but purely fictional. Enterprise? A colossal spaceship from the 80’s flown by people with bad taste: Highly advanced, but purely fictional.Mads Buus Westmark (Capgemini Ruby on Rails pioneer)
Lessons from Facebook on Engineering Management Lessons from Facebook on Engineering ManagementYishan Wong spent several years as a technical manager at Facebook. These posts from him are a real revelation, particularly the need to focus on tools for efficiency
Heroku Rails3, Compass and the Heroku read-only filesystem I use Compass with Blueprint for all projects these days. When deploying on Heroku, the read-only filesystem has trouble with the conditional around the IE stylesheet - leading to something like this; Errno: