Synesthesia

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-12

• Last.fm Power Tweaks:

  Keywords: lastfm, music

• Gigabyte: Decimal vs. Binary:
  Jeff Atwood revisits the difference between 10-based and 2-based measurements - or why is my 500GB hard drive only 465 GB?
  Keywords: standards
• Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking - lifehack.org:
  General wiki advice aimed at students, with links to a couple of more specialised products
  Keywords: wiki, StudyTechniques
• A basic setup to link Google Spreadsheets with Amazon ECS:
  Populating fields in a Google Spreadheet by querying Amazon
  Keywords: googleapps, AmazonECS
• National Rail Enquiries: Live Departure Boards Vista Sidebar Gadget:
  Vista sidebar to query and display the (UK) National Rail Live Departures information
  Keywords: vista, sidebar, webservices
• Draw Anywhere:
  DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. Drawings exportable to your deskt
  Keywords: webapps, drawing

Technorati Tags AmazonECS, googleapps, lastfm, standards, StudyTechniques, vista, Web-Services, wiki

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-10

• weight training worksheet (pdf):
  Keywords: exerciselogging, fitness
• TargetWeightCoach Exercise plan/log (pdf):
  Keywords: fitness, exerciselogging
• How to Change Up Your Weight Training Routine:
  Straightsetting, pre- and post-exhaustion, vary weight/reps/sets, supersets, pyramids and reverse pyramids, tempo and tension, anabolic/anaerobic conditioning, periodisation.
  Keywords: weighttraining, fitness
• Cardio Exercises - Good or Bad? How to H.I.I.T. to Burn Fat All Day:
  The benefits of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), and a variety of suggested exercises for both gym and outdoors.
  Keywords: sportsmedicine
• Heart Rate Training Zones:
  Keywords: sportsmedicine
• Exercise and the Immune system:
  Although moderate levels of exercise are good for the immune system, intense exercise (such as in athletic training) can cause a temporary reduction in immune function and increased susceptibility to infection. This article suggests that proper carbohydrate nutrition may help mitigate this
  Keywords: Immunology, SportsMedicine
• Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns:
  Patterns and anti-patterns for wiki adoption.
  Keywords: wiki, patterns

Technorati Tags ExerciseLogging, Fitness, Patterns, SportsMedicine, WeightTraining, wiki

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-06-06

• Running svn_load_dirs.pl on Windows:

  Keywords: subversion

• Enabling revision property changes in Subversion on Windows:
  How to create Subversion hook-scripts for windows hosts
  Keywords: subversion
• Wikka Skin Customizations:
  Changing wikka to have a 3-column fluid layout
  Keywords: wiki, wikka

Technorati Tags Subversion, wiki, Wikka

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-04-19

• Cleaning up iTunes plist XML:
  Two-pass approach - changing the iTunes plist format to a clean XML hieratrchy and then processing that
  Keywords: XML, XSL, iTunes
• GNU Wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF):
  Homepage for the GNU Wget project
  Keywords: tools/wget, GNU
• Windows Wget files:
  Windows builds of the popular wget tool
  Keywords: tools/wget
• Wget local copies of your online research (del.icio.us, digg or Google Notebook) - Lifehacker:
  More applications of wget
  Keywords: research, workflow, pkm, tools/wget
• Geek to Live: Mastering Wget - Lifehacker:
  Good review of practical uses for wget…
  Keywords: tools/wget, workflow, pkm
• Dan Bricklin / Ward Cunnigham Interview Podcast:
  Dan Bricklin interviews the creator of wiki
  Keywords: Wiki, DanBricklin, WardCunningham, podcast
• The Elements of Agile Style:Keywords: agile/methods

Technorati Tags Agile, DanBricklin, GNU, iTunes, PKM, podcast, research, Tools, WardCunnnigham, wget, wiki, workflow, XML, XSL

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-04-16

• WikiMatrix - Compare them all:
  Comparison of Wiki software engines
  Keywords: Wiki, Tools, Software
• Comparing and Replacing Strings:
  using XSLT to compare and replace strings
  Keywords: XSL, XML

Technorati Tags wiki, XML, XSL, XSLT

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….

I’m a big fan of Socialtext, with the help of their hosted solution I was able to get a small project group introduced to the wiki way long before we had in-house wiki facilities, and I always found them very helpful. This is a great approach to pricing that lets the power of wikis spread in the best way possible - word of mouth in small groups.

Good luck Ross!

Technorati Tags Innovation, Socialtext, Social_Software, wiki

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, Scrum
• The ACID Model:
  A reminder of the four goals of any dataase system: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability.
  Keywords: Databases
• Crash course in learning theory:
  Great notes from Kathy Sierra on the insights from learning theory that can make your presentation or training course that little bit more effective.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science, Emotional_Intelligence, Presentations, Training

• kmwiki:
  
  Keywords: KM/Wikis, Wiki
• More on Chunking as an Alternative to Multitasking:
  Lisa Haneberg offers advice and a planning sheet to help with chunking your to-do list…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Agile links:
  Blog post full of links on Agile from Clarke Ching
  Keywords: Agile
• Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs:
  Generate and download unusual graph paper as PDF. I’ve found the "Cornell Note Taking System PLUS Graph Paper" one to be really good for mind-mapping meetings with space for action lists etc down the side…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Bristol City Council Open Source Academy:
  Home page for various papers from Bristol City Council based on their experience of moving to OpenOffice.
  Keywords: OpenOffice/Migration
• Visual cognitive styles:
  Two sorts of visualisation - people who construct images of objects, and people who construct images of spatial relationships amongst objects.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science

Technorati Tags Agile, Databases, Emotional-Intelligence, Enterprise-IT, IPR, Knowledge_Management, OpenOffice, presentations, Productivity, Project_Management, Scrum, Syndication-Formats, Training, wiki

…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 this is a really good way of developing a set of inter-related ideas; secondly, how it made periodic checking of my Bloglines feeds list and various email accounts less disruptive: it’s far easier and faster to Ctrl-PageDown to the next Firefox tab than it is to switch context between browser, email client and word processor. (And as you will note, implicit in that statement there is also my view that tabbed browsing is vastly more efficient than the non-tabbed variety.)

I think there may be a clue here about what needs to be done to increase the use of blogs and wikis in a corporate setting - if you look at the user patterns within browser-based tools and the more traditional thick-client set of email-wordprocesssor-spreadsheet it is much easier to switch and share within each sub-system than between them.

It’s an idea I’ve touched on before; the question remains will we see an end-to-end solution from Microsoft? Or will the independent tool vendors and the Open Source community be able to come up with something first?

Technorati Tags interface+design, Productivity, social+software, Social_Software, usability, web-based+tools, wiki