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Archive for March 2006

Links Roundup for 2006-03-31

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-31 WordPress Widgets: Easier ways to configure your WP sidebar Keywords: WordPress Software Maintenance is a Solution, Not a Problem: In other words, software maintenance is a solution instead of a problem because in software maintenance we can do something that no one else can do as well, and because when [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-29

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-29 Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments Keywords: Agile, Innovation, Product_Development Simple Monte Carlo Simulator for Microsoft Project: Monte Carlo simulation is a method of determining a probability distribution for the dates within your project. By using this technique you can determine the statistical probability of meeting a [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-28

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-28 Innovating by Asking Why: Dave Pollard picks up on Umair Haque - "asking why is not new, but asking really profound ‘whys’ can get you thinking about radically different, highly disruptive innovation opportunities." Keywords: Innovation Utilizing TRIZ as a strategic innovation tool: Applying the 5 steps of TRIZ (Define, Map, [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-27

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-27 3G mobiles ‘change social habits’: Research shows that group-forming use of the multimedia capabilities could have major effects. Keywords: Technology How to create a REST Protocol: 4 basic steps from Joe Gregorio Keywords: Web_services Separating Pingbacks/Trackbacks from comments in Wordpress 2.0: Keywords: WordPress Technorati Tags: 3G, Web-Services, wordpress

Links Roundup for 2006-03-24

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-24 Server and Domain Isolation Information on TechNet: Dana Epp discusses Microsoft’s guidance on using IPSec and group policy to segregate your estate Keywords: Security Navigate your del.icio.us tags without leaving your site: Code to build a tags page Keywords: Webmaster Technorati Tags: Security, Web-Services

Tags everywhere

Two updates to the site as alternative ways of navigating the information: I’ve been using Ultimate Tag Warrior for some time to tag posts, I’ve now added a tag cloud view I’ve added a view of my del.icio.us bookmarks, using this idea from Brian Lamb and Enej Bajgoric. Technorati Tags: Site_News

Links Roundup for 2006-03-23

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-3-23 Getting Things Done — in Meetings: Dave Pollard’s appraoch to applying the GTD process to meetings Keywords: Personal_Productivity Is Self-Help a Scam?: Steve Pavlina has an interesting analysis Keywords: Personal_Development The Retrospective Starfish: Interesting approach to doing a Lessons Learned Keywords: Project_Management/Tools Technorati Tags: personal-development, Productivity, Project_Management

Links Roundup for 2006-03-22

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-22 Go to the source or use your imagination: David Anderson reckons development already ‘goes to the source’ through the use of Personas, Snapshots and Usage Scenarios Keywords: Development/Lean, Requirements Perfecting Your Personas: A persona is a user archetype you can use to help guide decisions about product features, navigation, interactions, [...]

More about conversations and processes

I’ve a hunch that the conceptual models discussed in  Jeremy Aarons’ new paper, (as I summarised here) could be a useful lever for unpicking the dilemma I found when I wrote that I prefer conversation, but you need process. In that post I was drawing on conversations with (amongst others) Earl, Taka, Jon  and Ton about the apparent [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-21

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-21 Basic ground rules for programming - function parameters and how they are used: "There are some basic ground rules that apply to all system programming, so obvious that most documentation does not bother explaining them because these rules should have been internalized by practitioners of the art to [...]

Integrating thinking and doing

This post summarises Supporting organisational knowledge work: Integrating thinking and doing in task-based support by Jeremy Aarons, Henry Linger & Frada Burstein.

Links Roundup for 2006-03-14

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-14 [Web] Service Versioning Guidance: Keywords: SOA Making Your Application a Windows Vista Application: The Top Ten Things to Do Keywords: Windows/Vista JavaScript tutorial: Simon Willison’s tutorial from ETEch Keywords: Javascript Ajax Templating: Seperating layout and logic with Ajax Keywords: Web_Architecture The challenges of complex IT projects: BCS position paper Keywords: Project_Management Strategic Knowledge Management: using the [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-13

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-13 How to Run Linux on a USB Drive: Creating a bootable Linuix install on a USB fob Keywords: Linux Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool: Slightly old, but useful, article by David Mattison on various wiki flavours. Keywords: KM, PKM, [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-09

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-09 Idiagram Ideas: Visual Models: Features of effective cognitive models Keywords: Cognitive_Science MySQLicious - del.icio.us to MySQL Mirroring: MySQLicious is a tool for mirroring del.icio.us bookmarks into a MySQL database. Keywords: Link_Manager Technorati Tags: Cognition, Databases, MySQL

Links Roundup for 2006-03-08

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-08 OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture: Keywords: SOA Technorati Tags: Enterprise_Architecture, SOA

More on Business Strategy Patterns

Allan Kelly commented on my post from last year about the possibilities of using pattern languages to describe business strategies, to point out that he has done quite a bit of this already. So far the only paper I’ve had a chance to read is Business Strategy Patterns for The Innovative Company, which is a set of [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-07

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-07 ADSL Tweaks Page: Keywords: ADSL Technorati Tags: ADSL

Links Roundup for 2006-03-06

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-06 List of cognitive biases: Distortions in how we see reality Keywords: Psychology WordPress Hooks: A directory of WP PHP hooks Keywords: WordPress/Plugins ScrumWorks: Tool for managing your sprints and backlogs Keywords: Project_Management/Scrum Comment on Information Archtecture as Scaffold: It’s all about context - without it documents are rarely re-usable… Keywords: KM, mycomments Another comment on [...]

I prefer conversation, but you need process

A conversation about Information as Scaffolding makes me realise some of the contradictions in my approach to things, and leads to speculation about how to make out-sourced services work in a wierarchical way...

Qumana re-visited

Having mentioned Qumana in a recent post, the ever-vigilant Qumana team picked up on my comment and asked if I’d look again at the tool. As I promised, here is a note of my re-visit. In the spirit of the thing, this post is written using the tool (3.0.0-b2 Beta). The two things that put me [...]

The Road to Reality

Who could resist a book subtitled “A Complete Guide to the Laws of The Universe”? If you didn’t know that the author was Roger Penrose, you could be forgiven for assuming that The Road to Reality was one of the very many quasi-scientific, faith-based, wild-eyed polemics that appear each year under increasingly garish covers, [...]

Links Roundup for 2006-03-01

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-01 Bristol Switches to StarOffice: Account of Bristol City Council’s move to StarOffice, with links to backing documents Keywords: Enterprise_IT, Migration, OpenOffice Technorati Tags: Enterprise-IT, OpenOffice

Value-based pricing for wikis

Innovative wiki company Socialtext have launched group-based pricing for their hosted wiki solutions, including unlimited free wikis for groups of 5 or less. As CEO Ross Mayfield says, this is ...reflecting how the unit of value in wikis is the group that uses it....

Links Roundup for 2006-02-28

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-28 Making Sense of Social Bookmarking Offerings: Detailed comparison of BlinkList and del.icio.us Keywords: KM Avoiding Cult-Like Pitfalls that could arise in Neuro-Semantics: Article by L. Michael Hall promoting a scientific and non-cult-like approach to NLP and Neuro-Semantics Keywords: Neuro-Semantics Robust Project Design: Robust Project Design is the practice of creating models (representations) [...]

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