Best of Feeds – 15 links – blogging, google, reader, photo, windows, orthogonality

Posted in Best of Feeds, Technology by engtech on February 24, 2007

Best of Feeds is a regular series where I link to the stuff I found interesting from my feed reader. Links are sorted based on how many people have bookmarked them on del.icio.us. They are posted as asides daily at 7pm EST and then collected together in a single post on Saturday. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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This time I have 15 links from: adultaddstrengths, artima, comeeko, dilbertblog, guild, influks, joelonsoftware, mikebogo, nbrightside, netbusinessblog, problogger, stuff.mit.edu, sunsite3.berkeley.edu, tagcrowd

[SUPPORT] Seven steps to remarkable customer service (joelonsoftware.com, 875 saves)
- (customer, service, support, software, business, management)
- From the article: ” Here are seven things we learned about providing remarkable customer service. I’m using the word remarkable literally–the goal is to provide customer service so good that people remark.”
[COMICS] Comeeko – Creating comic strips from your photos (comeeko.com, 788 saves)
- (web2.0, comic, photo, tools, photos)
- web2.0 app for creating comics online. I think I’ll stick to adobe illustrator :)
[NADD] Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career (adultaddstrengths.com, 392 saves)
- (attention, brain, add, tech, adhd)
- One of the first times I’ve gotten a decent lead via email. Good summary of the benefits of having an A.D.D. type personality in high tech.
[CODE] Orthogonality and the DRY Principle (artima.com, 116 saves)
- (programming, development, dry, orthogonality)
- From the article: ” DRY says that every piece of system knowledge should have one authoritative, unambiguous representation. Every piece of knowledge in the development of something should have a single representation. A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its”
[VIDEO] George Takei owns Tim Hardaway (influks.com, 98 saves)
- (video, funny, Humor, gay, youtube)
[EMACS] Being Productive With Emacs, IAP 2007 (stuff.mit.edu, 61 saves)
- (emacs, tutorial, productivity, howto, mit)
- Some good slides on getting started with Emacs, via http://emacs.wordpress.com
[PERL] Why I Am Not A Java Programmer (guild.net, 22 saves)
- (Perl, Java, Programming)
- Great read comparing Java and Perl and highlighting all of Perl’s strengths versus an OO language.
[BLOG] How to Run a Blog Competition to Find New Readers and Make Your Blog Sticky (problogger.net, 14 saves)
- (contest, contests, blog, blogging)
- From the article: ” One technique that an increasing number of bloggers have been using over the last year to create a buzz on their blogs is to use competitions.In this post I’ll share 9 tips for running a successful competition on your blog – but first why woul”
[SU] Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource (mikebogo.com, 12 saves)
- (marketing, stumbleupon, blogging)
- From the article: ” Since Stumble has been sending many of us a huge amount of traffic, I thought it would be useful to find some resources on how to best make use of this traffic. This list will be kept updated with the best articles found – if you have one, please le”
[TAGS] TagCrowd — What is TagCrowd? (tagcrowd.com, 9 saves)
- (folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags)
- Software for creating tag clouds from word frequency.
[BLOG] Secret Confessions of a Link-A-Holic (problogger.net, 5 saves)
- (blogs, blogging, linkbait)
- From the article: ” this week my alarm bells have been going off and I’m starting to wonder if we (as a blogging community) might be getting a little distracted from…. from…. well blogging itself.”
[SMO] Little Known Link-Building Secret – Being Friendly (netbusinessblog.com, 2 saves)
- (linkbuilding, blogging)
- You attract more flies with honey.
[RSS] resisting the lure of Google Reader (nbrightside.com, 2 saves)
- (features, reader, google)
- nice overview of the features of Google Reader
[PERL] Deploying User Friendly XSLT Applications Using Perl and LibXSLT (sunsite3.berkeley.edu)
- (perl, windows, macos)
- An application developer’s experience wrapping perl scripts into Win32 and MacOS binaries.
[SEX] Because He Thought He Could (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
- (sex, std)
- A celebrity tries to join the mile high club while on a STD awareness tour.