These last airline restrictions spell marvels for the software industry! Seriously. I was reading last night the blog of DarcyLabMistress (and for those interested in who she is you might want to remember Kevin Mitnick),and reading her and her readers’considerations on how to fly in this era of fear and increased surveillance;the [...]
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Startups are highly attractive workplaces for some of us,but according to Dharmesh Shah,there is much more to ask when considering joining one:Nowhere else will you get the diverse set of experiences and visibility that you can get in an early-stage startup (whether your own or someone else’s). If you’re not going to [...] Nearly all management and career coaches tell their pupils to learn to fail faster,to try and push their performance envelope;most of us live in a world of what we believe possible,and we refuse to acknowledge what might be. InBubbleWrap is offering a Glen Shepard book,and of course he advocates failing as [...] A little list about the best corporate citizens,according to KLD for Business Ethics:These firms are ranked on performance in eight stakeholder categories:share-holders,community,gover-nance,diversity,employees,environment,human rights,and product. Among the long-standing best citizens are Brady Corporation Cisco Systems,Inc. Cummins,Inc. Ecolab Inc. Graco Inc. Herman Miller,Inc. Hewlett-Packard [...] Ruby fast Justin Gehtlan has some interesting numbers from a ruby app at Some Numbers at Last,with the sweetest conclusion:Rails can be very fast…On the other hand,I am going to spend more of my time trying to find projects that I can use Rails on. Let’s become evangelists for Ruby and [...] I have finally drank the kool-aid,and started reading on ruby,rails,information architecture,lisp and all those (soon to-do) SCIP ideas. As it happens,everybody is doing that,and there is no first in market advantage here,but it does not really matter:I will be an enlightened individual,I hope. With Ruby,though,[...] Two years ago,I was trying to teach a friend about blogs,and since she works in marketing,the obvious way was to peddle this kind of activity under the “it-will-be-good-for-your-work”marquee. At that moment blogs were not so known around here,and she disregarded my advice. Nobody is a prophet in their own land,[...] A list of Ten Daily Things…for Success,as told by Marcus Vorwaller. Briefly,they are: get daily motivational log every progress rewrite goals (wiki?) network save money create a cash cow get good sleep volunteer manage your money own your life Of course,Marcus may feel free to flame me for distilling his wisdom [...] |  | ||||||
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