Business English Pod :: The Business English Podcast for Professionals
tags: business, english, podcast
Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb Annotated
tags: education, knowledge, learning, productivity
fact, it’s been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain.
Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here
are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few
are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for
self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.
your mind more receptive to recognizing brilliant ideas.
Usability and Interface Design Books | Know-How | Smashing Magazine
tags: books, design, interaction, usability
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
tags: unix
tags: no_tag
systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for
folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves
regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in
the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across
a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or
by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a
very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can
position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared
keyboard/mouse to control all of them.
Chris Harrison’s Projects Page
tags: project
How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design? :: UXmatters
tags: design
The user experience field has been trying to move beyond mere usability and utility for years. So far, no one seems to have developed easy-to-implement, non-retrospective, valid, and reliable measures for gauging users’ emotional reactions to a system, application, or Web site.
Simple Home File Server (Based On Ubuntu) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials Annotated
The server is built with Ubuntu Server 7.10 & Samba. Do not use Ubuntu Server 5.04 LTS because this version does not support the latest SATA Controllers (in an Pentium II or III you likely want to use a PCI SATA RAID controller to attach SATA hard disks).
complex authorization or access procedure. Freenas (www.freenas.org) does have too many
features for home users and more important it does not support the NTFS
format.
Fire And Motion – Joel on Software Annotated
tags: gtd
strategy, from air force dogfights to large scale naval maneuvers, is based on
the idea of Fire and Motion. It took me another fifteen years to realize that
the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to
move forward a little bit, every day. It doesn’t matter if your code is lame and
buggy and nobody wants it. If you are moving forward, writing code and fixing
bugs constantly, time is on your side. Watch out when your competition fires at
you. Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so
you can’t move forward?
Code Commit: The End of the Ruby Fad? Annotated
tags: ruby
Ruby. Ruby posts to link sites like DZone or Reddit get voted down before
they have a chance to see the light of day. Pointless flames litter the
blogs, declaiming Ruby and alternatively crowning Groovy, Scala, Java or even
XML in its place. The sad thing is that no one seems to have found the
middle ground yet
Interoperability Happens – Can Dynamic Languages Scale?
tags: language, scalability
counted as one operation. Intermediate assignments, which need not be written to
RAM, are not counted. Of course, this operation counting approach only serves as
an approximation of the actual number of machine instructions and CPU time. All
operations are assumed to take the same amount of time, which is not true in
reality, but CPUs have been heading increasingly in this direction over time.
There are many nuances that determine how fast a system will run a given sample
of code, such as cache sizes, memory bandwidths, instruction sets, etc. In the
end, benchmarking is the best way to determine whether one method is really
faster than another, so consider the techniques below as possibilities to test
on your target architecture.
Five whys – Joel on Software Annotated
tags: mindset
statistically meaningless measurement and hoping that the mere measurement of
something meaningless would cause it to get better, what we really needed was a
process of continuous improvement. Instead of setting up a SLA for our
customers, we set up a blog
where we would document every outage in real time, provide complete
post-mortems, ask the five whys, get to the root cause, and tell our customers
what we’re doing to prevent that problem in the future. In this case, the change
is that our internal documentation will include detailed checklists
for all operational procedures in the live environment.
- Our link to Peer1 NY went down
- Why? – Our switch appears to have put the port in a failed state
- Why? – After some discussion with the Peer1 NOC, we speculate that it was
quite possibly caused by an Ethernet speed / duplex mismatch - Why? – The switch interface was set to auto-negotiate instead of being
manually configured - Why? – We were fully aware of problems like this, and have been for many
years. But – we do not have a written standard and verification process
for production switch configurations. - Why? – Documentation is often thought of as an aid for when the sysadmin
isn’t around or for other members of the operations team, whereas, it should
really be thought of as a checklist.
