Archive for February 2006
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.NET Exception Handling:
Detailed coverage of error-handling by Edward G. Nilges Keywords: Development, Dotnet
Technorati Tags Development, dotnet
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‘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
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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: [...]
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Dissecting MySQL Fulltext Indexing:
The mathematics behind fulltext indexes in MySQL Keywords: MySQL
Technorati Tags Databases
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Understanding Classic COM Interoperability With .NET Applications:
Keywords: COM, DotNet, Interop
Technorati Tags COM, Development, dotnet
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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
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...
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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 - [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]