November 23, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-23

• GOP leaving spending bills to Democrats: Republicans vacating the Capitol are dumping a big spring cleaning job on Democrats moving in. GOP leaders have opted to leave behind almost a half-trillion-dollar clutter of unfinished spending bills
  ( GOP DEMs Budget )
• Mac OS X: How to install X11 on your iMac intel box.: If you want to install X11, you have to do either of the following AFTER you install your Disc 1 cd. It's ridiculously annoying that this is the method to install X11!!
  ( X11 MacOSX Tutorials )

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November 22, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-22

• Doodle: Scheduling meetings: Doodle helps scheduling meetings – it's simple, quick, and free.
  ( WebApps Calendaring Scheduling )
• 6 powerful “look into” verbs (+ 1 to avoid) | 43 Folders: “cranking widgets.” I love this term, because, in his humorous way, David captures how any thing we want to accomplish in this world eventually has to manifest itself in an intentional physical activity.
  ( GTD Productivity Reference Taxonomy )
• DavidCo’s Robert Peake on “Getting Software Done” (part 2): Part II: GTD and Extreme Programming | 43 Folders
  ( GTD XP Development Productivity )
• DavidCo’s Robert Peake on “Getting Software Done” (part 1): Robert Peake is the brainiac CTO for the David Allen Company (a/k/a, “DavidCo”). | 43 Folders
  ( Development XP GTD Productivity )

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November 20, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-20

• Tech.view | The big picture | Economist.com: But good enough is the enemy of better still. Anyone who has seen a 1080-line progressive-scan display knows there’s no comparison. And what the shills aren’t saying is that stunning and affordable 1080p sets are in the works. Those who buy HDTV model
  ( mag_Economist HDTV Op-Ed PodCast )
• GTD: Project Verbs vs. Next-Action Verbs | 43 Folders: no matter how hard they try, they can never seem to get the distinction between single-action verbs and the larger “look-into” style projects that may require sub-actions.
  ( GTD Productivity Reference Taxonomy )

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November 19, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-19

• Prescription for Improvement: As Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast region and obliterated vital services for millions of people, 400,000 military veterans living in the region didn't have to worry about losing their medical records or access to care.
  ( VistA Articles mag_PublicCIO )
• Scrum with XP (printable): Ken Schwaber and Kane Mar argue that Scrum can be combined with XP engineering practices to generate a significant impact on the productivity of a project team. This article details a project in which this theory was put to work successfully.
  ( Scrum Development XP )
• Myths Over Miami: Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade's homeless shelters.
  ( Folklore Homeless Children Stories )
• bmehling's "US Presidential Biographies" on Lists of Bests: My list of Presidential Biographies...
  ( Books Biography Lists *ToRead )
• 1080p and HDTV Resolution Explained: The real-world benefits of 1080p TVs are limited for most people, however, due to lack of commercial content available in that resolution, technical challenges associated with 1080p displays, and the inability to actually see the resolution enhancements i
  ( Reference HDTV Television Tutorials )

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November 18, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-18

• webcast.berkeley | Courses | Schedule: Podcasts, course website links for UCB courses
  ( PodCast Edu UC Courseware )

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November 09, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-09

• aspneticons.com -- free icons for ASP.NET web applications: That’s not all! More than 300 (three hundred!) professionally designed icons for your ASP.NET applications are in this collection, and they all are completely free!
  ( Icons Design WebDev Graphics )

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November 05, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-05

• Maps - Satellite, Street, Theme Maps - National Geographic: Create custom maps w/ overlay data
  ( Cartography Reference Travel Weather )
• VMware Converter 3.0 Beta: Convert existing installs to VMWare images
  ( Software Virtualization co_VMWare )
• How to Choose a DSLR Camera: I’ve previously discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of moving from a point and shoot to DSLR but in this post would like to explore how to choose a DSLR.
  ( Photography Tutorials Op-Ed Reviews )
• Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts: Recently I’ve been browsing through the Net searching for the best license-free fonts which would fit as a serious heading for a serious online-presentation.
  ( Fonts Freeware Design )

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November 02, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-02

• Hitting the High Notes - Joel on Software: does it even make sense to talk about having the "best programmers?" Is there so much variation between programmers that this even matters?
  ( Development Op-Ed Design Software Quality )
• Test Plan Template: This document is a template to plan testing for your project. It is meant to be a guideline, not an absolute dictation of form. You should add or modify sections as appropriate for your project.
  ( Development PM Testing Templates )
• How to estimate a software project - The Code Project - Design and Strategy: The same concept can be extended for estimating software projects. We start by identifying and describing items of work, then the units for the item, the quantity, and so on. Describing items of work can be fairly irritating form a techie point of view, t
  ( Development PM Estimates )
• Estimating Software Test Cases and Defects with Function Points: There is a strong relationship between the number of test cases and the number of function points. As expected there is a strong relationship between the number of defects and the number of test cases and number of function points.
  ( Development Defects Estimates PM )
• Estimating Software Projects: Software professionals are very weak at estimating. This article provides some data that can be used for estimating purposes. Additionally, the article outlines some basic data for estimating.
  ( Developement Estimating PM )
• Estimating Software Effort: Many software managers struggle with estimating projects. As can be seen from the following chart, the inherent problem with estimating is that small projects can be very easy to estimate, but the required accuracy is not important.
  ( Development PM Estimating )

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November 01, 2006

Notable URLs on 2006-11-01

• OPEN SOURCE LICENSING MODELS [PDF]: EVALUATION OF OPEN SOURCE LICENSING MODELS FOR A COMPANY DEVELOPING MASS MARKET SOFTWARE - valimaki_oksanen_lawtech_2002.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  ( Opensource Licensing Reference Comparison )
• Open Source Software Licensing: A Short FAQ [PDF]: Open_Source_FAQ.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  ( Opensource Licenses Reference )
• OSSF: A Comparison of Open Source Licenses: Open Source Software Foundry compared the 10 most commonly adopted licenses on the Source Forge, inclyding GPL, LGPL, BSD, Artistic, MIT, Apache MPL, Zlib, QPL and the Common Public License.
  ( Licenses Opensource Reference Comparisons )
• Foolproofing Open Source: An effort to "pool" patents and get customers' input promises to head off the potential for legal problems down the road
  ( Op-Ed Opensource Licenses )
• The Open Market Source Definition
  ( Licenses Opensource Reference )
• The Promiscuous Source Definition
  ( Licenses Opensource Reference )
• Open Source Initiative OSI - The Open Source Definition: Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
  ( Opensource Licenses Reference )
• The Open Source Initiative: Licenses
  ( Comparison Licenses Opensource Reference )
• Open Source Licenses Comparison
  ( Comparison Licenses Opensource Reference )

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