Gorilla Glass

August 28, 2011

Sony now has televisions made with gorilla glass. If you are using your TV in a way that a gorilla glass screen is somehow advantageous, you are doing something terribly terribly wrong.

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Free Book Marketing

August 17, 2011

Brilliant way to market. Offer a free book in exchange for email address. You get a very focused list of people interested in the topic of the book. If you write code, you might be interested in the free copy of Version Control By Example.

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Grade Inflation

August 16, 2011

Grade Inflation.  Why aren’t instructors giving out only A?

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Ethanol Scam

August 16, 2011

“40% of US Corn diverted to ethanol scam.”

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Kissinger Leadership Quote

August 15, 2011

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ~Henry Kissinger This leadership quote by Henry Kissinger is a great example of the difference between  manager and a leader. A manager is mainly tasked with getting people to do the same thing over and [...]

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Git Hub Online Editing

August 15, 2011

Now Git Hub has online editing as well.

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Google Code

August 12, 2011

Google Code now offers Git repositories and online code editing from your browser.

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Google Plus

August 12, 2011

Google+ is now rolling out games.  They haven’t figured out to let customers who are paying for Google Apps use the service, but they have found a way to make games work on it. Doesn’t that seem a bit backwards?

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A Focused Browsing Experience

August 12, 2011

If you have trouble focusing, checkout these ways to use Chrome distraction free.

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40% off Pragmatic Programmers Books

August 8, 2011

AGILEWEEK will get you 40% off of books at Pragmatic Programmer’s for the next few days.

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Being Wrong

August 8, 2011

A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much. ~ Ken Wisdom (source) Are you willing to accept being wrong as part of the path toward success?

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Tapestry and testng.xml

August 6, 2011

You can use a testng.xml file to help control the tests and browser used by Selenium in Tapestry.  However, you have to tell Maven to look for the testng.xml file or it will ignore it.  You do this by putting the following in your pom.xml -> build -> plugins:

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Leadership Quotes

August 3, 2011

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ~ Bennis More leadership quotes. This quote.

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Is an MBA Worth the Cost?

August 3, 2011

If you look at the cost vs. benefit, MBAs may be a very big waste of money.

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Guatemala’s City Aquarium

July 18, 2011

My brother wrote about his experience at the Guatemala City Aquarium. I thought the restaurant where each table has their own soda fountain is an interesting idea, but probably not something we’ll see in America any time soon.

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Social Networks Evaporation

July 18, 2011

This post about The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a fascinating look at how social networks retain or lose members.

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