trying out Google Desktop

I’m currently evaluating Google Desktop. And I must say so far I’m fairly impressed… There’s little things like opening up the corresponding email in Outlook 2000 which blow me over. The install hasn’t affected performance. But this is only day 2… I’m going see how it goes for the next couple of weeks.

Great Mistakes in Technical Leadership

some good points in this list of typical mistakes: The Technical Lead has overall responsibility for all technical aspects of the project – design, code, technology selection, work assignment, scheduling and architecture are all within his purview. Positioned right at the border of the technical and managerial, they are the proverbial “meat in the sandwich.”… Continue reading Great Mistakes in Technical Leadership

experimenting with WordPress plugins

yesterday evening I started playing around with some WordPress plugins I’d found. SlimStats This Day I made a small code change in wp-config.php. Everything was working fine… I thought. But this morning I got this error message (please skip the next paragraph if you’re a wp/PHP geek, you’re probably going to throw your hands up… Continue reading experimenting with WordPress plugins

PR for tech and software

i stumbled across this article describing how PR for tech. and software companies is changing. The new rules of press releases: Don’t just send press releases when “big news” is happening; find good reasons to send them all the time. Instead of just targeting a handful of journalists, create press releases that appeal directly to… Continue reading PR for tech and software

Hype antibodies

agree with this even though we’re still far from this kind of hype here in Europe: It’s a bad time to start a company

The Eventual Death of Software Developer Magazines

Software development magazines are losing ground compared to blogs, wikis… See Eric Sink’s post: For a while it was fashionable to predict that the Web would eliminate publishing, or at least that it would eliminate magazine publishing. Ten years later, most of these pubs are still around. But there is obviously some truth here. Today’s… Continue reading The Eventual Death of Software Developer Magazines

For Alexa Traffic Graph Junkies

better interface: Alexaholic – Get Your Alexa Traffic Graph Fix Here See for example the traffic stats for some CH blog aggregators.

Buying a New Laptop

I’m planning to purchase a notebook in the very near future. It should: work flawlessly with Ubuntu be mobile and quiet (not to heavy and big) work with many applications at one time in GNOME / KDE with reasonable performance, i.e. mostly Web, email, Open Office, programming, DVD, music, (no gaming) cost around 1500 CHF… Continue reading Buying a New Laptop

AJAX Translator

Cool translator interface: AJAX Translator Goodbye to pulldown menus and submit buttons! Love the typo “Protoguese”…