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Archive for February 2006

Blink

Just got around to reading Blink. It’s a quick read - as usual with Gladwell the book’s central theme, the human ability to make almost instant decisions based on the unconscious mind and previously-acquired experience, is presented lucidly and with plenty of examples. He structures the book in three broad areas: Evidence of human ability to make [...]

A new tool: Awasu

Via Earl Mardle I’ve found a new tool to add to my personal knowledge management toolkit: Awasu Although the core of the product is an aggregator, it’s a lot more than that as it offers a number of ways of inter-acting with the flow of information through the tool, both manually and in various automated ways. [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-23

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-23 .NET Exception Handling: Detailed coverage of error-handling by Edward G. Nilges Keywords: Development, Dotnet Technorati Tags Development, dotnet

Links Roundup for 2006-02-22

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-22 ‘Sleeping on it’ best for complex decisions: Research from the Netherlands that supports the idea that complex decisions tend to have better outcomes if made by the unconscious rather than by conscious deliberation. Keywords: Psychology Technorati Tags Psychology

Links Roundup for 2006-02-21

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-21 Regular Expressions From Scratch, Part One: Defining Terms: Keywords: Computer_Science Regular Expressions From Scratch, Part Two: Some Examples of Languages: Keywords: Computer_Science Regular Expressions From Scratch, Part Three: Concatenation: Keywords: Computer_Science Regular Expressions From Scratch, Part Four: The Kleene Closure of a Language: Keywords: Computer_Science Regular Expressions From Scratch, Part Five: [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-20

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-20 Dissecting MySQL Fulltext Indexing: The mathematics behind fulltext indexes in MySQL Keywords: MySQL Technorati Tags Databases

Links Roundup for 2006-02-17

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-17 Understanding Classic COM Interoperability With .NET Applications: Keywords: COM, DotNet, Interop Technorati Tags COM, Development, dotnet

Links Roundup for 2006-02-16

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-16 PHP: mysql_select_db: How to make it easier to work in PHP with multiple databases on the same server. Keywords: PHP/Databases Technorati Tags Databases, PHP

Using Theory of Constraints to Plan Access To Shared Resources

Clarke Ching points to a document from Network Rail showing the application of TOC to planning shared use of a critical piece of infrastructure. Lessons here for other industries I think...

Links Roundup for 2006-02-15

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-15 Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode: Paper on the Sony root-kit episode by Alex Halderman and Edward Felten at Princeton University Keywords: DRM Online conversion tools for PDF: Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF documents to either text or HTML Keywords: PDF Knowledge hoarding: Shawn Callahan on knowledge hoarding - [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-12

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-12 London Tube Map with Anagram Station Names: …brought to you from the depths of Prussian Girdle Keywords: Humour, Maps Technorati Tags Humour, London, maps, travel, tube

Links Roundup for 2006-02-09

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-09 Fifty Tools which can help you in Writing: Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. Keywords: Writing/Skills Giving personal development a shove?: Clare engages with the challenge over bringing a research approach to personal development [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-08

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-08 LEGO Technic Difference Engine: Details of a Lego implementation of Babbage’s Difference Engine which can compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits Keywords: Computing, Difference-Engine, Lego Personal development: an uncomfortable truth?: Interesting post by Clare Walker, challenging the static nature of much self-development, plus link to [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-07

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-07 What is Microsoft doing for security?: Peter Torr, Microsoft Security Program Manage, summarises what Microsoft is doing to build security into its products Keywords: Microsoft/Security, Security Unsupportable systems: Good post from John Dale about how changes in volume. changes in complexity and loss of knowledge can creep up on an [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-02-06

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-06 RSS and Copyright: John Palfrey - Berkman Center, Harvard Law School - on the issues raised by sites which republish syndicated feeds Keywords: IPR, RSS, Syndication Scrum for Docs: Notes from Microsoft’s Rob Caron on using the Scrum process for managing document production in a technical writing team. Keywords: Project_Management/Scrum, [...]

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