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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Facebook

• 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

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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

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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

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Free Ideas

• Free Idea: Outlook Calendar Screensaver

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Getting to Done

• Overtime Considered Harmful
• Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
• Adopting Getting to Done

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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How I Use

• How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
• How I Use Google Reader

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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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)

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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

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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?

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RSS Syndication

• Add to Google Reader
• The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes
• How Do People Use Google Reader with Internet Explorer?
• FeedBurner Tip: Create a private area for your RSS subscribers only
• Broadcasting RSS Feeds with Twitterbot in Less Than 5 Minutes
• I display my FeedBurner subscribers count because I don’t have a choice…
• Bitacle emphasizes the problem with RSS

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Reddit

• Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
• Be My Friend (on social network sites)
• Get RSS Updates when your Site is Submitted to Digg or Reddit (Yahoo Pipes)
• Aaron Swartz on becoming a DotCom millionaire

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Request for Comments

• Presenting: Black and Blue and Read All Over
• Request for Comments: Which RSS Reader and Why?
• Q+A: What is your favorite online web comic?
• It’s All About You — Reader Survey Results
• Reader Poll for Regular Readers — Please delurk and respond
• Friday Feedback: What is the worst tech gear you’ve ever bought?

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Ruby on Rails

• How to Install the Exception Notifier Plugin with Ruby on Rails
• Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
• Getting Started with Ruby on Rails – Week 3 – Testing
• Getting Started With Ruby on Rails – Week 2
• Book Review: Ruby on Rails for Dummies
• Getting Started With Ruby on Rails – Week 1

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Software

• The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use
• Book Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield
• How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
• How I Use Google Reader
• The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
• 9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application
• How Procrastination Dashes Made Me a Better Worker
• Adopting Getting to Done
• Using Mind Maps to Explore User Interaction
• BSoD: BlueScreen – Blue Screen of Death Screensaver
• Nokia 6682 Review Part 4 of 5: Freeware Applications, Battery Life and Upgrading Firmware
• 7-Zip: an alternative to WinZip
• Foxit Reader – Replacement for Acrobat Reader

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Startups and Business

• 9 Ways to Know When to Jump Ship at a Startup
• Magazine Review: October 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine
• 9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application
• The Problem With Social Web Applications
• Aaron Swartz on becoming a DotCom millionaire
• Paul Graham on Why Startups Fail
• How to be a successful Web2.0 company
• Startup Lessons – Viral and Scaling
• Startup Lessons – Distribution Channels
• Web Too.Many: The Internet has no clothes (Bubble 2.0, not porn)
• Gwabs Desktop Battler
• Developing 1.0 // Rands In Repose

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Statistics and Navel Gazing

• Year in Review – Most Popular Posts of 2007
• What I learned in my first year of blogging
• 1 Million Page Views Served
• //engtech is 5 and a half months old
• I Digg It – Week 2 (With more Trunk Monkey)
• I Digg It – Getting 35,000+ page views in a week
• 50,000 views in 5 months and 5 days
• //engtech is four months old.
• //engtech is three months old.
• One and a half months in…

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StumbleUpon

• Delicious Stumbles – Post to Delicious and StumbleUpon at the same time
• Be My Friend (on social network sites)
• StumbleUpon Help: I Can’t Submit a Site or Page
• It’s official: StumbleUpon Video rocks

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Technorati

• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes
• Opting Out of Technorati – The Break-up
• Are Bloggers Being Gamed? – Fixing the Technorati Favorites Feature
• Technorati Program – Automatically Favorite Anyone Who Favorites You
• Technorati Favoritism – Trading Favours
• Hack – Display Your Technorati Rank in a Sidebar RSS Widget (Dapper + Yahoo Pipes)
• In defense of 2000 bloggers
• Does Technorati Matter? (Searching for Violent Acres)
• Technorati Top 10,000

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The War on Spam

• Using Comment Spam to Measure Blog Rank
• Too Much Spam – Blacklisting .info because it gets through Akismet
• Too much Spam – Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress.com (Greasemonkey Script)
• The Stupidest Comment Spammer I Ever Did See (Dirk Wagner, team4success.biz and PR Backlinks Generator)
• Just say no to SEO contests like “Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire”
• Bitacle emphasizes the problem with RSS
• Uniqcount.net wants to give you a virus
• New spammer getting through Akismet
• WordPress Website’s Search Engine Spam // waxy.org
• Akismet at work on spam comments (damned sploggers)

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Tshirts

• And we have a winner…
• Group Writing Project #3 — Theme = T-shirts or Movies (Win Free t-shirts contest for bloggers)
• 107 t-shirts for geeks that do not suck

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Twitter

• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes
• Facebook Tip: Broadcast your Facebook status as RSS
• Be My Friend (on social network sites)
• Blowing Twitters out of proportion
• Broadcasting RSS Feeds with Twitterbot in Less Than 5 Minutes

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We Welcome Our Feline Overlord

• Friday Fun: Catptions of my LOL Cat
• Contest: LOL My Cat and Win a T-Shirt
• How to Create LOLCats aka MemeCat aka Kittah aka Cat Macros
• Off-topic News: Massive Pet Food Recall
• Robert Scoble attacks the cat blogs… but what about MyCatBlogLog?

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Web 2.0 Blogging

• Hey Bloggers, PayPerPost is Illegal
• Reviewme.com Reviewed – A Look at the Algorithm from a Bloggers Point of View

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Web 2.0 and Social Media

• Book Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield
• Online Survival Guide: 9 Tips for Dealing with Idiots on the Internet
• Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
• 9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application
• The Problem With Social Web Applications
• Universal identity and single sign on using openID? No thanks
• The Solution to Social Network Site Fatigue
• Be My Friend (on social network sites)
• What’s Your Web 2.0? (meme/survey)
• What’s a URL to do? – How to Save URLs
• Why Posting Your Email Address in Plain Text is Never a Good Idea
• ScheduleWorld now has AJAX offline contact editing
• Tech and Blogging Predictions for 2007
• The Internet is for Trolls
• Scrybe Beta Update
• Google Custom Search Engines
• Internet bought the video star (Google buys YouTube)
• Disorganized? Scrybe it down
• How to be a successful Web2.0 company
• ScheduleWorld bug fixes
• Startup Lessons – Viral and Scaling
• Web Too.Many: The Internet has no clothes (Bubble 2.0, not porn)
• Google to World: Linking is Good
• BetaPlug – uPlayMe social friendfinder by mp3 playlist
• Dapper – screen scraping Web API for any site
• Web 2.0 Time Tracking In a Nutshell (please don’t sue me O’Reilley)
• Social Bookmarking Made Easy
• Aol Releases Googles most prized Keyword List… Google is gonna get mega spammed. // The Paradigm Shift
• The Long Debate on the Long Tail
• LinkedIn – social business networking

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Wikipedia

• Do You Make These Mistakes with Wikis? 9 Ways To Build a Wiki That Doesn’t Suck
• Wikipedia Loses the Google Juice
• On Wikipedia, Blogging and the Anti-blog Bias

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WordPress

• Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2
• WordPress CSS Tip: Design for Sandbox Theme in a sandbox
• Win Cash Prizes for your CSS Design for Sandbox
• How to design a variable sidebar WordPress theme with widgets (by guest blogger Daria Black)
• Reasons to Take Security Upgrades Seriously — Hacked WordPress Sites
• WordPress on PostSecret
• My First Greasemonkey Script: WordPress.com Category Resizer
• WordPress Plugin: Sociable – Push cx

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WordPress.com Tips

• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes
• Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2
• WordPress.com Command Diagrams
• Climbing Out of Category Hell
• Win Cash Prizes for your CSS Design for Sandbox
• Stumbling through //engtech at random (or any wordpress.com blog)
• For Those Who Are New to the WordPress.com Support Forums (by guest blogger Sulz)
• Tag Cloud Generator for WordPress.com
• Getting Started With Splashcast on WordPress.com
• MyBlogLog widget for WordPress.com blogs — One of the best web widgets available
• Too much Spam – Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress.com (Greasemonkey Script)
• WordPress Theme Review: Chaotic Soul, Tarski, Unsleepable, K2-Lite
• WordPress.com Domain Registration – From the User’s Point of View
• WordPress.com needs a community blog post voting system
• WordPress Theme Review: Light, Rubrick, Solipsus, Supposedly Clean
• WordPress Theme Review: Pool, Cutline, Rounded, Day Dream
• WordPress update – easy switch between compose/html
• WordPress.com Theme Review: Pressrow, Andreas04, Andreas09, Connections
• Blog Housekeeping: Cleaning Up Dead Links on Your WordPress.com Blog
• WordPress.com Theme Review: Shocking Blue Green, Blix, Regulus, Sandbox, Kubrick
• Announcing WordPress.com Theme Review
• WordPress Tips – Alt-V
• List of wordpress.com Page Templates by Theme
• WordPress.com Lets You Preview Custom CSS Before Buying
• WordPress.com announces it’s first pay feature
• How to Design a WordPress.com Blog
• More Info on Using Google Sitemap with WordPress.com Blogs
• WP bug with deleting posts.
• WordPress theme round-up.
• WordPress – renaming categories bug (first bug found)
• Switching to WordPress

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Workhacks and High Tech Life

• 9 Ways to Know When to Jump Ship at a Startup
• Overtime Considered Harmful
• Coworkers Considered Harmful
• How to find out if you are passionate about your career or if you are just wilfing
• Lions, Tigers and Managers Oh My – The IT Animal Kingdom (by guest blogger logtar)
• An Introduction to Reputation Management (by guest blogger Tim Nash)
• The Work Manifesto
• New tech meme: How to become a Venture Capitalist
• Firefox 2.0 Boss Key extension – Productivity and Networking Information Component
• Peace at Last – The Joy of Telecommuting from Home
• Bridging the gap between business and technology
• Life in the Trenches – Getting Out Alive (by guest blogger AJ Valliant)
• Blogging as Unofficial Corporate Representation

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Writing Better Documentation

• Do You Make These Mistakes with Wikis? 9 Ways To Build a Wiki That Doesn’t Suck
• Automatic Documentation of Python Code using Doxygen
• Inline source code documentation (Language independent)
• Creating HTML documentation of Verilog code
• What is semantic markup, and why does it matter?
• Become an Excel ninja
• Moving up the wisdom hierarchy // Creating Passionate Users
• LaTeX: from beginner to TeXPert
• Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know
• Python and Doxygen — Automatically Document Your Python Code
• Perl Doxygen Filter — Automatically Document Your Perl Code
• Doxygen — Generate Documentation from Code Comments

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Yahoo Pipes

• Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
• Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
• Greasemonkey Script: Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
• Facebook Tip: Broadcast your Facebook status as RSS
• WordPress Tip: Create a Digest Post in 3 Seconds
• Be My Friend (on social network sites)
• The Programmable Web – Yahoo Pipes
• 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)

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