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Feb 16 2007

links for 2007-02-15

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Server electricity use skyrockets

(tags: power electricity server green)

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Feb 15 2007

links for 2007-02-14

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zumastor – Zumastor Linux Storage Project

(tags: storage linux)
Smart Hiring Decisions

Hire for temperament, train for skills – true enough, but we don’t focus enough on training to make it work. And someone, somewhere has to have the skills to pass on via training.

(tags: hiring)
Working from Home: It’s in the Details

Details we need to figure out cos our transport systems etc can’t take it.

(tags: green homeworking)
How much control should our users have?

As usual, what users say they want and what they really want are two different things.

(tags: product marketing design psychology)
Mark Lam’s Blog: CVM’s JIT: Another BIG Picture

(tags: java compiler embedded)
The Pinocchio Problem

Some traits to consider for your next product

(tags: software product development)

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Feb 13 2007

links for 2007-02-12

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Feb 09 2007

links for 2007-02-08

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SwingLabs Release Philosophy

Could be relevant to Apache River with all our separate projects, a core and a need for some kind of starter package.

(tags: opensource projectmanagement)
SwingLabs Roadmap

More like a shopping list but it’s a start. Interesting that they want to focus on deployment…..a growing theme across Java-land.

(tags: java swing gui roadmap)
grizzly: Project Home Page

(tags: java networking nio http)
Making it stick: Transactional Memory Discussion

Patrick’s right, shared nothing is the way to go. Retro-fitting database internals into a programming language? I don’t think so, it’s not friendly on SMP let alone multi-core or distributed processors.

(tags: concurrency stm research)
The critical importance of “beginner mind” when starting a business

Good philosophy applicable to all sorts of things including martial arts.

(tags: business businessmodel)
Do entrepreneurs still need to write business plans?

Shared vision, gooood.

(tags: business startup Entrepreneurship)
Beta of S3DFS for EC2

(tags: storage amazon ec2 s3)
Hotspot Calling Conventions

(tags: hotspot java jit)

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Feb 06 2007

links for 2007-02-05

Posted by Dan Creswell in Links

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems

(tags: amazon ec2 s3 scaling reliability)
Alex Bosworth’s Weblog : How To Provide A Web API

(tags: webservices api design)
Nike releases Hatphones for your iPod

Perfect for those long winter runs

(tags: fitness exercise fun nike ipod)
Startup Review Blog – Analyzing Web Success

(tags: Entrepreneurship startup web web2.0)
Stu says stuff: Life beyond distributed transactions

(tags: rest soa w3c)
Paul’s Pontifications » Blog Archive » The Google Development Algorithm

(tags: business google economics businessmodel)
Amazon.com EC2 Success Story: Gumiyo.com

(tags: amazon ec2 s3)

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