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The pricing for Workgroup edition is $2 per user per month. That includes the features that are found in the $1 per month Jungle Disk Plus account, with web-based file access and upload resume. If you find yourself in need of a painless way to transfer files between team members spread around the world, and would like to get desktop backup as well, it seems like a bargain price.
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experiment has shown that the more detailed subjects’ visualization, the more optimistic (and less accurate) they become.
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VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE platform.
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Have fun creating and sharing flashcards from our library of millions of cards.
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I like urls, at least when they're RESTful ones that are pretty to look at. They're easy to parse for both humans and computers. Obfuscating them through routes, url-building helpers, and ActiveResource doesn't provide much benefit that I can see.
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Twitter has a surprising profile – it's very strong within the states where it has any presence, but is basically dead outside of it. If you would conclude anything, you'd say that Twitter is in a transitionary period where it's certainly grown to be a larger-than Silicon Valley phenomenon, but is still mostly dominated by early adopters in specific states.
links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]
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# One bug per report– Report one bug in a single report, no more, no less. If you put in too many bugs, some of the them may be overlooked. To avoid confusion and duplication, please, one bug per report, no more, no less.
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TagTicket helpdesk software helps you manage, track and share client communications via email and the web.
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Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.
links for 2008-08-10 [delicious.com]
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free service allows you to add your latest tweets to a blog or website using a small piece of JavaScript code
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Web Sites That Shorten Long URLs
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OpenID offers, at best, a little convenience, and ignores the security vulnerability inherent in the process of typing a password into someone else’s Web site.
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stripe generator a free tool for the webdesign
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New to kuler? Explore, create and share color themes.
links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]
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5. Understand your competitive landscape–current and historical.
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This year I’ve had three companies show me group SMS messaging products, and most of them did not know what UPOC.com was (Gordon Gould’s group SMS messaging service that was five years ahead of its time). I’ve had three or four companies over the past two years of TechCrunch50 conferences pitch me on Third Voice–the controversial “web annotation” service from Web 1.0. [Side note: I loved the concept of Third Voice so much I considered starting a company like it and even bought the domain name annotated.com.] -
Google Reader + del.icio.us
Adds reader posts to del.icio.us when clicked
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MyTextFile offers plenty of space to store your notes and lists plus a revision history of the file in question
links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]
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This software developer does not have a detailed list of all the things he needs to do. Which means, despite adamantly claiming that he is 99 percent done — he has no idea how long development will take! There's simply no basis for his schedule claims.
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In a follow up to the Study of Social Network Users vs. Age, Rapleaf today released full data on the 49.3 million people included in the study. Snapshot of the data along with full downloadable dataset below:
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Polymeme relies on the wisdom of crowds in a very different way that sites like Reddit and Digg. For each core topic, the algorithms monitor a small set of blogs, chosen because they focus on a specific topic, like evolution, education or economics.
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We’re going to build an RSS feed reader for a simple feed (from The Apple Blog, no less).
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The benefit to Brightkite is that it has a more tightly knit social network than other mobile posting sites. Besides that, it will cross-post your check-ins and pictures to Twitter.
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workers will be able to sell up to 20% of their vested equity, at a $4 billion valuation this fall.
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The use of Adobe / Flex air on the client assures that business users are given a user interface that meets their needs regarding functionality without clutter. The open architecture of ESME enables the possibility of other client technologies as well.
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Written in Scala on Liftwith an Air interface within the space of a few days, intriguingly Twitter is now being re architected using the same basic foundations.
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Moral of the story is: everybody can have a lot of Feedburner readers, which makes the service questionable as a measurement of performance. It’s up to Google/Feedburner to fix things up.
links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]
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TeachStreet has been gradually growing its user base by establishing its service in various cities across the nation. As this instructional service is very focused on the local market, such an expansion strategy is necessary
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Now that AIR is installed, you can download and install AIR applications. These applications are delivered in the form of .air files containing everything the AIR Application Installer needs to install the application on to your computer.
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OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds. OLX provides a simple solution to the complications involved in selling, buying, trading, discussing, organizing, and meeting people near you, wherever you may reside.
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If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does.
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OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do – with a URI. Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric identity.
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1. If you don’t mention it in your 2-minute product demo, you don’t need it.
2. Don’t build a race car for foot runners.
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80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the frontend. Start there. There's a greater potential of improvement on the frontend. If you improve the backend performance by 50%, chances are the end-user only sees a 5% improvement.
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deliver the software within the time constraints and turnaround a failing release management process. Within three months, we'd released both the pending releases and two scheduled releases of the reengineered applications.
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David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.
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By delivering astoundingly fast query performance out of the box, Kickfire enables organizations to use MySQL for demanding business intelligence, reporting, and analysis rather than migrating to costly, non-open source alternatives.
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venerable Hudson – a continuous integration engine that constantly builds our software, checks it for style and common coding errors, then instruments and tests it and reports on any violations that maybe have been introduced since the run.
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JupiterResearch has 43 research staff who will now become part of Forrester. These are some of the most prominent and prolific voices in the analysis of social media and technology's effects on consumers.
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In short, experts are pragmatists, they re-set or re-frame the problem to make it solvable. Novices are realists, they take the problem as a given and get stuck.
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use The GRails Application Generator (GRAG) to get started with Grails using an existing database. Generate Grails domain objects including constraints and relations. After generating the domain objects, you can continue using Grails with all it's power.
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Prawn is a new pure Ruby PDF generation library, with the long term goal of providing a suitable replacement for PDF::Writer. It is being developed under the auspices of the Ruby Mendicant project
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"Via the lens provided on the world by Messenger, we find that there are about '7 degrees of separation' among people,'' they wrote.
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FlashGallery is a free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.
links for 2008-08-03 [delicious.com]
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And really I was pretty damned honored having someone with his experience — a friggin VP of a $100 million company — working for me, and for free! Wow!
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Next, Bob joins the site and shares with us a few of his season ratings ([5,5,0,0,0,5] for seasons 1-6) – it's our goal to give him a recommendation based on this data. Intuitively, we want to find users similar to Bob


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