July 2007
22 posts
Inbox Zero -- Google Tech Talks July 23, 2007 →
Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email.
“However, the desktop PC is crap. It’s rubbish. The experience is so...”
– Con Kolivas - APC Magazine
YSlow for Firebug →
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you: * Performance report card * HTTP/HTML summary *
Django Master Class →
The point of this tutorial is to introduce you to the features of Django that the experts know. The three of us have each picked three “tricks of the trade” to share with you.
“We keep lowering the bar for technical prowess, it seems; if something has the...”
– Scott Robert Ladd
Provider for Google Calendar :: Sunbird Add-ons →
This extension allows Sunbird and Lightning to read and write events to a Google Calendar.
Are Some Ideas Too Dangerous to Discuss? →
In a fascinating op/ed, Harvard cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker, lists a number of taboo ideas that have been soundly denounced by various people.
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“A system that is fault-tolerant can easily be made scalable and easily made so...”
– Joe Armstrong
Harry Potter and the Instant Review →
Can you really review a 784-page book in an afternoon?
Console →
Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles
Ironic Sans: Terrorist organization logos →
“Terrorist groups, like any organization, need brand identities.”
“Digital information lasts forever, or five years, whichever comes first.”
– Jeff Rothenberg, RAND Corporation, [pdf]
“Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it...”
– Joel Spolsky
“Nu har Stockholms bostadskö passerat 200.000 personer. Det är en kö lika lång...”
– DN.se
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