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Archive for March 2005

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-31 Greasemonkey as a lightweight intermediary: The latest release of the swiss army knife of Firefox extensions adds support for cross-domain XMLHttpRequest calls from greasemonkey scripts. What that means is that you can create a user script (a short JavaScript that will be executed whenever your bro Keywords: RDF The [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-30 Customer Service – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A great story about bad service (with an example of how to do it right at the end) Keywords: Business/Customers What’s Up With Hungarian Notation?: Two philosophies of Hungarian notation – the original (useful) one, and the pointless misinterpretation by [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-29 Personal learning: Denham Grey about the importance of dialogue with your peers to reinforce learning Keywords: KM Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements: The true art of product or service development might come down to this:Knowing when it’s appropriate to make incremental improvements and knowing when you need a revolutionary leap. Keywords: [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-28 Comment on Trying Scuttle for Bookmarks: Keywords: Webmaster, XML, mycomments Why I Am Not A Christian: Bertrand Russell, from 1927 Keywords: Philosophy

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-25 Delicious Linkbacks: Look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page with one click. Keywords: WebServices

Problem with OpenOffice and Ruby

OpenOffice OLE Bridge produces error when trying to set properties from Ruby

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-24 Trying Scuttle for Bookmarks: Keywords: Webmaster Comment on Trying Scuttle for Bookmarks: Keywords: Webmaster, mycomments WordPress del.icio.us Plugin: Keywords: WordPress/Plugins MindManager X5 Web Export Technical Manual: Keywords: MindManager WYSIWYG Plugin For Wordpress: This plugin replaces the Wordpress quicktags with a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor. Keywords: WordPress/Plugins

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-23 how to use RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitspace [Ryan Byington]: Keywords: Development/RegEx You Can’t Measure What You Manage: Nine good reasons why communication managers should be skeptical about measuring communications Keywords: KM Long Tail vs. Bottom of Pyramid: Why the Long Tail is different… Keywords: Economics My Buddy, Regex: Keywords: Development/RegEx Regex use vs. Regex abuse: Keywords: [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-22 Features Kill: part 3 of Tom Evslin’s series on Software for CEOs Keywords: Development/Managing NetLogo: NetLogo is a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment Keywords: Modelling the middle hexagon should be independent of the adaptors: Keywords: Enterprise_Architecture WinMine Toolkit Home Page: The WinMine Toolkit is a set of tools for Windows 2000/NT/XP that allow [...]

Blogroll Additions – KM blogs

Jack Vinson has helpfully listed over 20 Knowledge Management blogs that he reads regularly. I already had about half of them on my sources list, I’ve now added Conniecto, How do you know that?, The Pragmatics of KM Equals Success, Knowledgeline, Mopsos, Myndsi, Networks, Complexity and Relatedness, …no straight lines…,; Reflexions, Scrapbook of My [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-21 Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle: Keywords: Security The Social Customer Manifesto: Keywords: Markets

The tools I use fall into two camps…

…browser-based and thick-client. I’ve been coming back to the use of a wiki in the work environment, again with project teams, for rapid development of specifications and management of action lists. Two things that struck me, after spending a large chunk of the working day creating and editing stuff in a group of browser tabs. Firstly, that [...]

Spring has Sprung

Lots of signs of Spring this weekend: Buds on the Birch trees in the local woods An invasion of frogs to the small pond in my garden The first wafts of barbecue smoke Technorati Tags: World

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-18 Google Code: Open source code from Google. Keywords: Development Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation: Why 15 people is the worst size of group for co-operation… Keywords: Psychology Charity begins at Homo sapiens: New Scientist article summarising research by Ernst Fehr showing that true altruism may well be a part of human nature [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-17 iFabricate.com: Keywords: Social_Software Code v2.0 and the CC-Wiki license: Lawrence Lessig has launched a wiki-based project to produce the revised edition of Code. Also, CC have released a draft of a new wiki licence. Keywords: IPR

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-16 Ruby on Rails – Howto Install On Windows: Keywords: Ruby/Rails xampp for windows: easy install of apache mysql and php on windows machines Keywords: WebServices Ruby on Rails from behind a firewall: Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows from behind a firewall Keywords: Ruby/Rails

Reinventing Radio

Tom Coates has posted the slides from Reinventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social Software - the presentation given by him, Matt Webb, Paul Hammond and Matt Biddulph at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-15 OpenOffice Programmer’s Tutorial: Keywords: OpenOffice/Scripting The NTLM Authentication Protocol: Keywords: Web_services NTLM Authorization Proxy Server: Keywords: Web_services NTLM Authentication Scheme for HTTP: Keywords: Web_services Manipulating OOo Documents with Ruby: Keywords: OpenOffice/Scripting, Ruby Ruby: OpenOffice: Keywords: OpenOffice/Scripting, Ruby Ruby/.NET Bridge: Keywords: Ruby

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-14 RubyGems Manuals: Keywords: Ruby/RubyGems Programming Ruby: Keywords: Ruby WATIR User Guide: Web-app testing using Ruby to drive IE Keywords: Ruby/WATIR Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide: Keywords: Ruby The Ruby Cookbook: StartHere: Keywords: Ruby RubyForTesting: Keywords: Ruby

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-13 XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples: 実際に走るAjaxを確かめられる Keywords: Web_services

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-11 greasemonkey: Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it’s behavior. Keywords: Firefox/Extensions Absolutely Del.icio.us: Del.icio.us – Complete Tool Collection Keywords: Web_services Textile your textareas with Greasemonkey: Keywords: Webmaster

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-10 Entity2NCR: WordPress plugin to convert HTML entity codes to Numeric Character Reference. Fixes problem with comments RSS feed. Keywords: WordPress/Plugins Your brain on multitasking: Keywords: Psychology Mapper’s delight: Keywords: Mapping Ley Lines and Co-incidence: Statistical simulation supporting the null hypothesis for ley lines – that is that they could be formed by [...]

Shopping around for DVD rental by post

Renting DVDs by post is all the rage these days. I’ve been enjoying a free trial from Lovefilm.com, but as it draws to a close was debating whether to continue as a paying customer. Via Going Underground my attention was drawn to the similar service offered by Sainsbury’s. (Not linking because I don’t want to [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-9 Language Equivalents: Comparison of language keywords between VB, Visual J#, C++, C# and JScript Keywords: Development Types of organisational narrative: Keywords: KM Regarding Ruby (and Ruby on Rails): Keywords: Ruby/Rails User Experience Diagrams: A series of PDFs and links about UI design for websites Keywords: UserExperience Collaborative Feedburner Stats Project: Keywords: Syndication/Formats/RSS Mr. Moore [...]

Connecting People With Content

Shawn Callahan points to his own white paper Using Content To Create Connections Among People [PDF] that advocates (in a style accessible to the non-techie) the use of blogs, feeds and aggregators as a more flexible solution (compared with a grand “knowledge repository”) to sharing knowledge within a company and between a company and its [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-8 Multi-Ontology Sense Making: Dave Snowden paper on getting the right balance between structured and unstructured – in decision-making and learning. (PDF) Keywords: KM

Update on Getting Things Done

Update on Getting Things Done

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-7 Hack your way out of writer’€™s block: Keywords: Writing With Good Grace: Keywords: Spirit Arthur On: BBC no digital dinosaur: Keywords: Business/Media

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-5 Where does PHP run: Keywords: PHP, mycomments

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-5 Where does PHP run: Keywords: PHP, mycomments

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-4 Trac: Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Keywords: Collaboration_Tools The CAPTCHA game: Keywords: Security ajax: a new approach to web applications: Good article on Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (JavaScript, XmlHttpRequest, DOM, XHTML etc.) Keywords: [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-4 Trac: Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Keywords: Collaboration_Tools The CAPTCHA game: Keywords: Security ajax: a new approach to web applications: Good article on Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (JavaScript, XmlHttpRequest, DOM, XHTML etc.) Keywords: [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-3 The brain can’t ignore angry voices: "We’re highly tuned to emotional signals. So whereas most of the information bombarding our brain is filtered, emotion-related signals seem to strike home regardless…" Keywords: Psychology The Boeing PowerPoint Slide: Keywords: Communication_Skills Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?: Keywords: Enterprise_IT How to Make Objects [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-3 The brain can’t ignore angry voices: "We’re highly tuned to emotional signals. So whereas most of the information bombarding our brain is filtered, emotion-related signals seem to strike home regardless…" Keywords: Psychology The Boeing PowerPoint Slide: Keywords: Communication_Skills Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?: Keywords: Enterprise_IT How to Make Objects [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-2 Good hearts, good minds: blogging as therapy: Andy Borrows’ contribution to the 100 Bloggers book Keywords: Blogging Strategic Planning and Other Myths: Keywords: Projects Green paper on future of the BBC: UK Government discussion paper reviewing the BBC’s charter. [PDF] Keywords: Business/Media SIRC Guide to flirting: The Social Issues Research centre have modelled [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-2 Good hearts, good minds: blogging as therapy: Andy Borrows’ contribution to the 100 Bloggers book Keywords: Blogging Strategic Planning and Other Myths: Keywords: Projects Green paper on future of the BBC: UK Government discussion paper reviewing the BBC’s charter. [PDF] Keywords: Business/Media SIRC Guide to flirting: The Social Issues Research centre have modelled [...]

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-1 Rubberducking and Creativity: Another take on the cardboard programmer Keywords: Creativity Dealing with a legacy brain…: Practical examples of how to use multi-modality, visualisation, sorting for patterns and anchoring to help you learn. Keywords: learning

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-3-1 Rubberducking and Creativity: Another take on the cardboard programmer Keywords: Creativity Dealing with a legacy brain…: Practical examples of how to use multi-modality, visualisation, sorting for patterns and anchoring to help you learn. Keywords: learning
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