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Technology

The Slinky style of project management

It seems that the bookshelves are inundated with books about building successful systems. “Build a successful business in 2 weeks or less”, or “How to go on the Web in 30 days”. To me, the real key to building successful systems, Web-based or not, is to understand the underlying causes of what makes a system […]

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Weblogging

It’s the “Baby in the Office” bug

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea writes: It’s not leaving. Somebody make it go away! I’m trapped in an office with a baby! Help! ¡Socorro! M’aidez!  

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RDF

Good RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby created an RSS Validator for us to use to validate our RSS feeds, and Bill Kearney was kind enough to host it. Many appreciations, folks. I ran the Validator against my RSS feeds (both Userland RSS and RDF/RSS feeds) per Mark’s request and as I expected my Userland RSS feed didn’t work, being […]

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Connecting

Kudos to the Australian government

Jonathon just posted a note that the Australian government will cover the medical costs for Rick and the other victims of the Babli bombing. That’s exceptionally good news. The Australian government has also said that it will depend on diplomacy to catch the Babli bombers. It will work with Indonesia rather than running in, guns blazing. By taking this […]

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RDF Writing

Practical RDF Pull Back

I’ve decided to hold on posting any more chapters to the RDF book web site until I have a completed first draft. I found that I couldn’t manage the tech review comments and questions and the writing at the same time. Normally I can multi-task, and this type of thing wouldn’t be a problem. However, […]