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Becoming a Better Blogger
- Rules of Thumb for Writing
- Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes
- Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
- Delicious Stumbles - Post to Delicious and StumbleUpon at the same time
- WordPress Tip: Create a Digest Post in 3 Seconds
- 3 Surefire Ways to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Better Than Sex (With Me)
- It’s All About Me — Or Is It?
- Tech and Blogging Predictions for 2007
- You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning - How NOT to be a Successful Blogger
- On Wikipedia, Blogging and the Anti-blog Bias
- Canadian Politician Garth Turner Dooced
- Blogger Now Sucks Less
- Signs of the Upcoming Blogamageddon and 20 Things Every Blogger Should Know to Prevent It *
- Blogging as Unofficial Corporate Representation
- Understanding Tagging Folksonomy - How it Relates to Improving PageRank
- dooced: To get fired because of blogging about your company
- How I set this site up
Book Reviews
- Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
- Book Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield
- Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- Book Review: Ruby on Rails for Dummies
- Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes
- The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
- Magazine Review: October 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine
- Quotations from The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1978)
- Book Review: Overclocked by Cory Doctorow (and Fair Use Day)
- Book Review: Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
- Favorite Quotations from Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
- Book Review: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
- 45 Books I Like More Than a Little
- How to be a Programmer with 10 Simple Books (GGG5)
- Book Review: JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Quotes and Quotations from JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Book Review: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Book Review: Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
- Book Review: The Art of Happiness At Work by Dalai Lama
- Book Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Book Review: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Free CVS Book - Open Source Development with CVS, 3rd Edition by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar
- Recommended Hardware Verification Books
- Recommended reading for software developers
- User Interface Design for Programmers - Joel On Software
- Book Reviews from Joel on Software
Building a Community
- Online Survival Guide: 9 Tips for Dealing with Idiots on the Internet
- Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2
- Community Starts with Communication: 5 Tips to Building Your Readership
- FeedBurner Tip: Create a private area for your RSS subscribers only
- 3 Surefire Ways to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String
- Technorati Favoritism - Trading Favours
- I display my FeedBurner subscribers count because I don’t have a choice…
- The Secret Behind Why Blog Readers Unsubscribe
- Building an Audience - DailyBlogTip’s Traffic Generation Tips Project
- It’s All About You — Reader Survey Results
- Why Posting Your Email Address in Plain Text is Never a Good Idea
- MyBlogLog widget for WordPress.com blogs — One of the best web widgets available
- Cory Doctorow on Building an Audience
- Building an Audience or “How I Learned to Stop Posting Inane Crap and Love the Blog”
CSS and Web Design
- Blog Action Day: Save Paper when Readers Print Your Blog
- Presenting: Black and Blue and Read All Over
- CSS Tip: Building 3D Buttons with CSS for the Sandbox Theme
- WordPress CSS Tip: Design for Sandbox Theme in a sandbox
- Win Cash Prizes for your CSS Design for Sandbox
- Design Tips: Website Speed Optimization for Dummies
- Three new themes and Bryan is leaving WordPress
- 5 Habits for Writing for the Web
Delicious
- Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
- Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
- Delicious Stumbles - Post to Delicious and StumbleUpon at the same time
- Be My Friend (on social network sites)
- Greasemonkey script: increase size of del.icio.us save bookmark extension
- Problems with searching del.icio.us
Digg
- Be My Friend (on social network sites)
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Get RSS Updates when your Site is Submitted to Digg or Reddit (Yahoo Pipes)
- Five Ways to Fix Digg’s Comment System
- spikethevote.com (the anti-digg) goes for sale on ebay
- Seo Blackhat on how to get Dugg, and a new web service for gaming Digg
- I Digg It - Week 2 (With more Trunk Monkey)
- Startup Lessons - Viral and Scaling
- I Digg It - Getting 35,000+ page views in a week
Digital Culture
- Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
- Online Survival Guide: 9 Tips for Dealing with Idiots on the Internet
- Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
- Book Review: Overclocked by Cory Doctorow (and Fair Use Day)
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Five Ways to Fix Digg’s Comment System
- Cyber-bullying - Not just for teenagers
- In the Future This Blog Post will be Obsolete
- The Internet is for Trolls
- Cory Doctorow on Building an Audience
- Project Cleanfeed Canada
- The Great Firewall of Canada
- Facebook Tip: Broadcast your Facebook status as RSS
- Facebook Applications and Privacy - How to Configure Facebook Applications
- Be My Friend (on social network sites)
- How to synchronize your iPod (or iTunes) to Facebook using Last.fm
- How to use Facebook without Losing Your Job over it
- Ottawa employees fired because of Facebook
FeedBurner
- FeedBurner Tip: Create a private area for your RSS subscribers only
- I display my FeedBurner subscribers count because I don’t have a choice…
- Feedburner and Sage
Firefox and Greasemonkey
- Programming Best Practices: Profiling
- How to Profile Greasemonkey Scripts with Firebug
- Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
- Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2
- Revolutionizing the Web with Firefox and Greasemonkey (with screenshots)
- How to Install a Firefox Extension (with screenshots)
- Greasemonkey Script: Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
- How Do People Use Google Reader with Internet Explorer?
- My Top Must Have Firefox Extensions
- Greasemonkey Script: Find images that are too wide and break your blog template
- Too much Spam - Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress.com (Greasemonkey Script)
- Greasemonkey script: increase size of del.icio.us save bookmark extension
- How to fix the Firefox memory leak (Firefox hack)
- I Hate Internet Explorer 7 (Uninstall Guide)
- How to remove text from form autocomplete box in Firefox or Internet Explorer
- Firefox 2.0 Boss Key extension - Productivity and Networking Information Component
- Spreading the Firefox 2 Love
- Spreading the Internet Explorer 7 Hate
- IceWeasel - Why proprietary software will always win out
- My First Greasemonkey Script: WordPress.com Category Resizer
Free Ideas
From the Vault
- From the Vault: Life in the Trenches
- From the Vault: Making the Most Out of Tagging
- From the Vault: Remove Headaches When Writing for the Web with 5 Tips
- From the Vault: Programmer Productivity Tips
Gadgets
- CES - Microsoft Home Server
- Boxing Day is coming
- FM Holiday Gadget Guide
- iPod vs Zune - Indepth Side by Side Feature Comparison Just In Time for Christmas
- The Best Remote in the World (Logitech Harmony)
- Joel makes me feel better about my Nokia 6682
- The Dirge of iPod
- Nokia 6682 Review Part 4 of 5: Freeware Applications, Battery Life and Upgrading Firmware
- Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod - LED States
- Best Answering Machine is not worth buying (or stealing with a crack/keygen*)
- Looking for mobile synchronization application and offline HTML reader
- Sale on Logitech Bluetooth Headphones for iPod
- Nokia 6682 Review Part 3 of 5: Contacts, Camera, Headset
- Friday Feedback: What is the worst tech gear you’ve ever bought?
- Nokia 6682 Review Part 2 of 5: Software Applications.
- Where is the last.fm or Pandora application for mobile phones?
- Nokia 6682 Review Part 1 of 5: Initial opinion
- Update on matchstick.ca and Nokia 6682 Phones
Games
- Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
- Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- 7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Gaming — Playing The Witcher on Minimum System Requirements
- What I’m Playing: PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360
- Create Buzz by Doing the Unexpected and Being Remarkable (Puzzle Quest Case Study)
- Settlers of Catan board game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade
- Gift Guide for Geeks Part 3 - Gamers (PC, Nintendo DS and Xbox 360)
- The Girls of EBay and Their Playstation 3s
- Book Review: JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Quotes and Quotations from JPod by Douglas Coupland
- What to buy Little Johnny for Christmas — Simple comparison of Playstation 3 vs Microsoft Xbox 360 vs Nintento Wii
- Gwabs Desktop Battler
Geeking Out
- My Favorite Albums of 2007
- [TV] When Good Heroes Go Bad
- Have Yourself a Very Geeky Valentine’s Day
- Book Review: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
- Gift Guide for Geeks concludes
- TV on DVD - A bunch of series I like (GGG8)
- Is Santa Claus Real? - A Look at the Physics
- 45 Books I Like More Than a Little
- How to be a Programmer with 10 Simple Books (GGG5)
- Suggested Comic Books for Grumpy Old Men (GGG4 featuring Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, JMS, Frank Miller)
- Gift Guide for Geeks Part 2 - Christmas Gift Suggestions from gifts.com
- Gift Guide for Geeks Part 1 - Tis the Season for Receiving
- Code Monkey
- My theme song :)
- Reasons why Steve Jobs isn’t the next Bill Gates - a photo essay
Getting to Done
- Overtime Considered Harmful
- Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
- Adopting Getting to Done
Google Calendar and Gmail
- Add to Google Reader
- Avoid Prime Real Estate for Live.com Email Address Landrush
- Password Recovery — The Achilles Heel of Your Online Security
- How I Use Google Reader
- Are you making the most out of Google Search? (by guest blogger Ashish Mohta)
- The Secret Behind Why Blog Readers Unsubscribe
- Google Custom Search Engines
- Find what you’re really looking for with Google Code Search
- How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work or school
- Unofficial software development cycle at Google
- Google to World: Linking is Good
- ScheduleWorld now supports automatic synching with Google Calendar
- Guide on How to Setup Two or More Gmail Accounts to Use One Account (Create, Forward, Link)
- Brought to You By Google Writely
- The Holy Grail of Synchronization: combining Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone
- Breaking News: Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” may help you get lucky.
- Google New Service Speculation // Tony Ruscoe
- Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge?
- How Google Ranks Websites // Lorelle on WordPress
Group Writing Projects
- How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
- Only Two Days Left to Win Graphic Design Services for Your Blog
- Canadian Marketing, Media, and Digital Blogs Tournament
- My Favorite Posts from DailyBlogTip’s Project3
- 3 Surefire Ways to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String
- 5 Reasons Blogging Leads to the Unemployment Line (You’re Fired!)
- The Biggest Mistake a Blog Can Make is Not Owning Its Own Name
- Website Analysis - Phil Gerbyshak’s Make It Great
- Building an Audience - DailyBlogTip’s Traffic Generation Tips Project
Hardware Engineering
- Quotations from The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1978)
- Creating HTML documentation of Verilog code
- Functional Verification Articles at cdnusers.org
- Recommended Hardware Verification Books
- Verilog-Perl - Perl modules for interacting with Verilog code
- Engineering Notebook Guidelines for working with patents
- interfacebus.com - Engineering Design Information
- Verilab - verification white paper downloads
- How to adopt assertion-based verification (ABV) into standard design flows
- Elements of Verification from SOCcentral
- Cool Verification - blog written by a verification engineer.
- SystemVerilog reference verification methodology // EETimes.com
- Bringing assertions into hardware-assisted verification
- John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine
- Verilog HDL On-line Quick Reference, by Sutherland HDL, Inc., Copyright 1997
Harold is a Robot
- comic: The Spider-man Alien Symbiote Costume
- This is Harold
- Global Warming 2007
- According to Dilbert Creator Scott Adams 95 Percent of Men Would Have Sex With a Robot
- comic: Harold Is a Robot #4 - Ode On a Silicon Yearn
- How to Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in Two Easy Steps
- comic: Harold Is a Robot #2 - Sexual Innuendo
- comic: Harold Is a Robot #1 - She Sucks
Hiring
- Is your web identity a help or a hindrance to your employability?
- How to screen candidates with phone interviews
- Building a Culture for Recruitment
- CrunchBoard - Another Job Board for the Tech Industry
- Emurse.com online resume builder
- How to Interview a Programmer // The Curmudgeon Coder
- The Art of Recruiting, Part II // Guy Kawasaki
- How to Hire Talent // Life of a Software Program Manager
- Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy // Official Google Research Blog
- Bloggers Need Not Apply — why you’ll fail the job interview because of your blog
- Be prepared for interview questions
- Peter’s New Jobs and BrainHunter — Finding Work in Ottawa
- Brainhunter.com list of engineering job skills
- Interview Planner - Job Interview Advice from Monster.com
- Don’t Talk Too Much - Job Interview Advice from Monster.com
- The 10 Commandments Of Salary Negotiations
- Writing code in interviews - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing - Joel on Software
- List Of References - Boston College
- techInterview - puzzles and interview questions
- LinkedIn - social business networking
- ResumeDoctor - tips from recruiters
- The Top Keywords Recruiters Use to Find You - Resume Writing Services & Free Resume Advice from Monster.com
- Resume Tips Roundup
- Top 20 recruiter pet peeves when reading resumes
- DOAC: Description of a Career
- Very good article on how to write results, achievements and accomplishments. (Careerlab)
- Don’t aim your CV at the bin
- Tech Jobs Ottawa
- Ottawa Talent Initiative - Networking: The Ottawa Talent Network
- Employment Insurance (EI) in Ottawa, Ontario
- Technical Resume Writing Guide
- Getting Your Resume Read - Joel on Software
- tech resume tips
- Monster.ca - Resume Tips for Technology Professionals
How I Use
Humor
- The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use
- Google’s Social Network Orkut Gets a New Look
- Opting Out of Technorati - The Break-up
- Lions, Tigers and Managers Oh My - The IT Animal Kingdom (by guest blogger logtar)
- How to Create LOLCats aka MemeCat aka Kittah aka Cat Macros
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Better Than Sex (With Me)
- Show Your Geek Love with Code Poetry (in Perl)
- Q+A: What is your favorite online web comic?
- Top 10 Resolutions That I Will Not Feel Bad About Not Keeping (2007 Edition)
- Is Santa Claus Real? - A Look at the Physics
- Bill Gates for President
- The Girls of EBay and Their Playstation 3s
- programmers vs biologists vs evolution (hello world)
- Peace at Last - The Joy of Telecommuting from Home
- Top Ten Things I Hate About Crunch Time at a Startup
- Code Monkey
- My theme song :)
- Reasons why Steve Jobs isn’t the next Bill Gates - a photo essay
- The War on Terror As viewed from the Bourne shell
- Signs of the Upcoming Blogamageddon and 20 Things Every Blogger Should Know to Prevent It *
- Bug 95849 and Bug 330884
IDT Labs Software Development
- Delicious Stumbles - Post to Delicious and StumbleUpon at the same time
- Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2
- The Programmable Web - Yahoo Pipes
- Technorati Program - Automatically Favorite Anyone Who Favorites You
- Get RSS Updates when your Site is Submitted to Digg or Reddit (Yahoo Pipes)
- Hack - Display Your Technorati Rank in a Sidebar RSS Widget (Dapper + Yahoo Pipes)
- Tag Cloud Generator - New Version
- Tag Cloud Generator - Final?
- Tag Cloud Generator Update
- Tag Cloud Generator for WordPress.com
- Name that script
- Greasemonkey Script: Find images that are too wide and break your blog template
- Too much Spam - Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress.com (Greasemonkey Script)
- WordPress.com Theme Review update
- My First Greasemonkey Script: WordPress.com Category Resizer
Increasing Productivity and Simplifying Your Life
- CoinStar — Is It Worth It To Convert Your Spare Change?
- People Are Computers Too - How Improving Applications Can Improve Your Life
- Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
- How Procrastination Dashes Made Me a Better Worker
- 14 Tips to Get More Done in Less Time
- Getting to Simple - Engineers Have No Idea How Normal Human Beings Interact With Their Environments
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done)
- Time Tracking Software: Painless Estimation Tools Evaluated
Internet Duct Tape News
- Shameless Self-promotion
- Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes
- Canadian Marketing, Media, and Digital Blogs Tournament
- Featured on Bloggers Face-off
- Gone Fishin
- SOAP and The Importance of Hallway Usability Testing
- Looking for Guest Bloggers and Contest Deadline Extended
- Technorati Top 3000 and the Neighbour of the Beast
- //engtech now has asides
- Switching back to real full feeds
- CSS Upgrade Complete
- //engtech gets new CSS duds
- New navigation option - All posts by title
- Navigation Update
- Switching themes to Shocking Blue Green 1.0 by Chris M.
- //engtech goes More Minimal
- I know how to weigh goats.
- New RSS Categories for //engtech
Job Interviews and Resume Resources
- Is your web identity a help or a hindrance to your employability?
- How to screen candidates with phone interviews
- Building a Culture for Recruitment
- CrunchBoard - Another Job Board for the Tech Industry
- Emurse.com online resume builder
- How to Interview a Programmer // The Curmudgeon Coder
- The Art of Recruiting, Part II // Guy Kawasaki
- How to Hire Talent // Life of a Software Program Manager
- Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy // Official Google Research Blog
- Bloggers Need Not Apply — why you’ll fail the job interview because of your blog
- Be prepared for interview questions
- Peter’s New Jobs and BrainHunter — Finding Work in Ottawa
- Brainhunter.com list of engineering job skills
- Interview Planner - Job Interview Advice from Monster.com
- Don’t Talk Too Much - Job Interview Advice from Monster.com
- The 10 Commandments Of Salary Negotiations
- Writing code in interviews - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing - Joel on Software
- List Of References - Boston College
- techInterview - puzzles and interview questions
- LinkedIn - social business networking
- ResumeDoctor - tips from recruiters
- The Top Keywords Recruiters Use to Find You - Resume Writing Services & Free Resume Advice from Monster.com
- Resume Tips Roundup
- Top 20 recruiter pet peeves when reading resumes
- DOAC: Description of a Career
- Very good article on how to write results, achievements and accomplishments. (Careerlab)
- Don’t aim your CV at the bin
- Tech Jobs Ottawa
- Ottawa Talent Initiative - Networking: The Ottawa Talent Network
- Employment Insurance (EI) in Ottawa, Ontario
- Technical Resume Writing Guide
- Getting Your Resume Read - Joel on Software
- tech resume tips
- Monster.ca - Resume Tips for Technology Professionals
Lifehacks
- V-Day Alert
- Fat Blogging 101 - Weight Loss Tips
- Coworkers Considered Harmful
- The Holiday Spread - Group Weight Loss Game
- 7 Tips for Learning the Declutter Habit
- Do Anything: 3 Steps for Success
- What is Your Opportunity Cost?
- The Secret to Finding the Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift for the Person You Love
- Last Minute Gift Suggestions
- Shopping Online - How to Shop Online in Canada
- What to buy Little Johnny for Christmas — Simple comparison of Playstation 3 vs Microsoft Xbox 360 vs Nintento Wii
- Common questions, simple answers, at simplehelp.net
- How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work or school
- Staying Fit with IT: Personal Chemistry and the Healthy Body reprint
- Guide on How to Setup Two or More Gmail Accounts to Use One Account (Create, Forward, Link)
- 9 Essential Tips for Buying New Eyewear
- Daily Exercises for Geeks: Staying Fit with IT
- Web 2.0 Time Tracking In a Nutshell (please don’t sue me O’Reilley)
- The Holy Grail of Synchronization: combining Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone
- Book Review: The Art of Happiness At Work by Dalai Lama
- Book Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Book Review: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Linux and Unix
- Removing filenames starting with - under Unix
- Linux and Unix tutorials // Tille’s Homepage
- Differing features between sh, ksh and csh (if, for, loops)
- Improve Your Scripting with the test Command
- icewm
- Don’t beep at me — turning off the console beep in unix shells (xterm)
- How to embed single quotes in a tcsh alias
- Virtual Appliances and VM-Ware
- symbolic link checker in Perl and script to find biggest files
- Linux family tree
- MySql - Backup and Restore of MySql database with phpMyAdmin
- MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 2.4 Installing MySQL on Linux
- Installing/Using MySQL on RedHat Linux - very high level tutorial
- How to find out which version of Linux you are running
MP3s and Internet Radio
- My Favorite Albums of 2007
- Stupid iTunes Tricks - How to Burn a MP3 CD with Folders
- When is it time to get a new iPod?
- Tip: Send Amazon or iTunes Gift Certificates Anonymously
- How to synchronize your iPod (or iTunes) to Facebook using Last.fm
- The Dirge of iPod
- BetaPlug - uPlayMe social friendfinder by mp3 playlist
- Soundcard Input/Output Colours
- Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod - LED States
- Looking for mobile synchronization application and offline HTML reader
- The Holy Grail of Synchronization: combining Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone
- Where is the last.fm or Pandora application for mobile phones?
Marketing and Promotion
- Tip: Send Amazon or iTunes Gift Certificates Anonymously
- Tim Ferriss’ Four Minute Blog Training - The 9 Rules You Need to Know
- 3 Surefire Ways to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String
- Create Buzz by Doing the Unexpected and Being Remarkable (Puzzle Quest Case Study)
- An Introduction to Reputation Management (by guest blogger Tim Nash)
- Blog Marketing Explained
- The Secret to Blog Success is in the Title
- North America’s Next Top Blogger? - Be a celebrity first
- chartreuse on Paris Hilton - the new sex tape
- Building PageRank Through Bribery
Microsoft Windows XP and Vista
- Free Idea: Outlook Calendar Screensaver
- 7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Gaming — Playing The Witcher on Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP - Disable dumpprep when programs crash
- Windows XP Logon Screen with No User Accounts?
- CES - Microsoft Home Server
- Free Windows Vista to US Residents
- Windows Genuine (Dis) Advantage — Why buy when a crack works better? (WGA sucks)
- Reasons why Steve Jobs isn’t the next Bill Gates - a photo essay
- Using Perl on Windows Part 1: Installing ActiveState Perl
- Stupid Windows Features: Disable FilterKeys Permanently
- The Holy Grail of Synchronization: combining Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone
- Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Blows Up
- Stupid Windows Features - Monitor Display Turns Sideways or Upside Down
- Bill and Steve’s Bogus Advantage - Removing Windows Genuine Advantage
- Configuring Windows Automatic Update to use manual installations
- Become an Excel ninja
- Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know
Monthly Digest
- Year in Review - Most Popular Posts of 2007
- Digest for November 2007
- Digest for October 2007
- Digest for September 2007
- Digest for August 2007
- Digest for June and July 2007
- Digest for May 2007
- Digest for April 2007
- Digest for March 2007
- Digest for February 2006
- Digest for January 2007 - Part 2
- My favorite posts
- Digest for January 2007 - Part 1
- Digest for December 2006
- Digest for November 2006
Movies
- Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- Group Writing Project #3 — Theme = T-shirts or Movies (Win Free t-shirts contest for bloggers)
- Top Romance Movies: 76 Romantic Flicks for Guys and Girls
- 81 movies for geeks that do not suck
- Hacking for Hollywood - Programming in the movies
Music
- My Favorite Albums of 2007
- Stupid iTunes Tricks - How to Burn a MP3 CD with Folders
- When is it time to get a new iPod?
- Tip: Send Amazon or iTunes Gift Certificates Anonymously
- How to synchronize your iPod (or iTunes) to Facebook using Last.fm
- The Dirge of iPod
- BetaPlug - uPlayMe social friendfinder by mp3 playlist
- Soundcard Input/Output Colours
- Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod - LED States
- Looking for mobile synchronization application and offline HTML reader
- The Holy Grail of Synchronization: combining Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone
- Where is the last.fm or Pandora application for mobile phones?
Online Privacy and Reputation Management
- Online Survival Guide: 9 Tips for Dealing with Idiots on the Internet
- Avoid Prime Real Estate for Live.com Email Address Landrush
- Tip: Send Amazon or iTunes Gift Certificates Anonymously
- The Solution to Social Network Site Fatigue
- Facebook Applications and Privacy - How to Configure Facebook Applications
- Blowing Twitters out of proportion
- An Introduction to Reputation Management (by guest blogger Tim Nash)
- Is your web identity a help or a hindrance to your employability?
- How to use Facebook without Losing Your Job over it
- Ottawa employees fired because of Facebook
- Project Cleanfeed Canada
- The Great Firewall of Canada
- You Are What You Say - Google TechTalks on Privacy
- Web Anonymity 103 - Online Privacy
- Canadian Politician Garth Turner Dooced
- Web Anonymity 102 - A Case Study
- Web Anonymity 101 - Digital Breadcrumbs
- Internet Address Book - Web anonymity down the drain
- Newsflash: You can’t block content on the Internet.
- Bloggers Need Not Apply — why you’ll fail the job interview because of your blog
Perl
- The Programmable Web - Yahoo Pipes
- Show Your Geek Love with Code Poetry (in Perl)
- Blog Housekeeping: Cleaning Up Dead Links on Your WordPress.com Blog
- Using Perl on Windows Part 1: Installing ActiveState Perl
- Perl Oneliner for date calculation
- Presentation Tutorials on Regular Expressions and Perl
- Doing it Better - Avoiding backticking `pwd`, `find .`, and `mkdir -p` in Perl
- Verilog-Perl - Perl modules for interacting with Verilog code
- Safe Scripting in Perl — don’t trust the user
- symbolic link checker in Perl and script to find biggest files
- Perl Doxygen Filter — Automatically Document Your Perl Code
- Linklint - fast html link checker in Perl
- Perl one-liner for replacing text in a file.
Popular Posts
- Revolutionizing the Web with Firefox and Greasemonkey (with screenshots)
- Most Popular Posts for February 2007
- Top Romance Movies: 76 Romantic Flicks for Guys and Girls
- The Secret to Finding the Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift for the Person You Love
- Year in Review - Most Popular Posts of 2006
- You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning - How NOT to be a Successful Blogger
- 107 t-shirts for geeks that do not suck
- 81 movies for geeks that do not suck
- How to fix the Firefox memory leak (Firefox hack)
- The Great Firewall of Canada
- I Hate Internet Explorer 7 (Uninstall Guide)
- How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work or school
- Guide on How to Setup Two or More Gmail Accounts to Use One Account (Create, Forward, Link)
- Stupid Windows Features - Monitor Display Turns Sideways or Upside Down
- Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge?
- Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done)
Programming Tools
- How to Profile Greasemonkey Scripts with Firebug
- Using Mind Maps to Explore User Interaction
- Emacs Wiki
- Emacs, emacsclient and gnuclient.
- How to move all gnu emacs backup files to their own directory
- Free CVS Book - Open Source Development with CVS, 3rd Edition by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar
- Configuration Management wiki — build management, version control, bug tracking
- Apache Ant (Java-based replacement for Make) User Manual
- Eclipse IDE - demo of using Eclipse with Java and Glade to create a simple GUI
Programming and Software Development
- The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use
- Why Open Source Software Sucks - Software Simplicity Isn’t Simple
- People Are Computers Too - How Improving Applications Can Improve Your Life
- Programming Best Practices: Profiling
- Book Review: Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
- Favorite Quotations from Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
- How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product (by guest blogger Andy Lawrence)
- Lions, Tigers and Managers Oh My - The IT Animal Kingdom (by guest blogger logtar)
- Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot
- The Missing Curriculum for Programmers and High Tech Workers
- What’s a URL to do? – How to Save URLs
- National Engineering Week
- Getting to Simple - Engineers Have No Idea How Normal Human Beings Interact With Their Environments
- Programming Advice for Newbs
- Hacking for Hollywood - Programming in the movies
- How to be a Programmer with 10 Simple Books (GGG5)
- How Google does web-based code reviews with Mondrian
- programmers vs biologists vs evolution (hello world)
- Book Review: JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Quotes and Quotations from JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Motivating Developers
- What I do for a living
- Developers versus Programmers
- Find what you’re really looking for with Google Code Search
- Top Ten Things I Hate About Crunch Time at a Startup
- Unofficial software development cycle at Google
- Code Monkey
- Making a mountain out of a molehill (of bugs)
- Python 2.5 slithers into view
- Book Review: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Programming Hierarchy
- Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge?
- There is a standard format for date, and it’s name is ISO 8601.
- Bug 95849 and Bug 330884
- Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done)
- Estimating Projects - Knowing Your Limits // The Retrospector
- Seven Pillars of Pretty Code // Perforce (via Coding Horror)
- Time Tracking Software: Painless Estimation Tools Evaluated
- Some Python essentials
- Creating Corporate Standards? Beware… // Cool Verification
- Climbing out of Technical Debt by Johanna Rothman // AYE Conference articles
- Haaarg, world! // davidbau.com
- Deleting code // Ned Batchelder
- Unskilled and Unaware of It, how ignorance gives misbelief of competance // damninteresting
- Book Review: Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
- Advice for Computer Science College Students // Joel on Software
- Functional Verification Articles at cdnusers.org
- Differing features between sh, ksh and csh (if, for, loops)
- Improve Your Scripting with the test Command
- Recommended Hardware Verification Books
- Code Smells // Coding Horror
- White Papers, Webcasts, and Case Studies
- Engineering Notebook Guidelines for working with patents
- Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
- User Interface Design for Programmers - Joel On Software
- Agile Architectural Modeling
- Book Reviews from Joel on Software
- Macros are bad.
- Apps Hungarian Notation vs System Hungarian Notation
- The Soak
- Turbans and Turbo Pascal - Is he a Programmer or a Terrorist?