Big Endian - new blog

Big Endian: A companion site to Parallax…. More frequently.One of my favorite bloggers, Niel Robertson, has spun off a new blog focused on enterprise software topics.

Units of Measure

I just read the funniest comment in a forum post about units of measure (don’t ask):“In Australia we have two specialist units of measure.The Sydharb is a measure of volume - ie this dam hold as much as half of Sydney HarbourThe Slab is a unit of work - How much to run the dozer over my drive on the way past (to a council worker)? ….

Do I need this?

Paul sent me a link to this t-shirt on Spreadshirt, I think I should probably order a couple.

Google Finance (beta) launches

The new Google Finance service is really slick, a much better layout than Yahoo! Finance and some nice extras like charts that are draggable and have links on the tick marks to major news stories. Also worth noting is that they are linking blog posts about the stock in question to the finance page (would [...]

RSS Feed icons

Here’s a site dedicated to promoting icons for feeds. I like the icon and have one on my sidebar, however I am going to take issue with anyone who suggests that this will help eliminate confusion or bring feeds to the forefront. If you were to look at this icon and didn’t know what a [...]

The Economist Covers Open Source

The Economist has a special report feature covering open source software. The main thrust of the piece is that oss is a force but also has it’s own vulnerabilities.

There are some contradictions in the article, like how they state that open source is primarily driven by volunteers and anyone can edit or add code. However, [...]

Product Marketing Line of the Week

The 'Angelina Jolie of applications' Hand-crafted from sheet metal and plastic gel, NewsFire has an abundance of Tiger-esque eye candy and sex appeal. NewsFire

State of the Aggregator

Niall Kennedy posts an excellent review of the state of information aggregators. It's easy to think of "aggregators" as simply "RSS" but in reality all of the web is an aggregator at it's core - hyperlinks. What the technology industry has accomplished in this regard is the dumbing down of data integration to simple text [...]

Gmail skins

This is a seriously cool Firefox extension, it enables a skins capability in Gmail to change the colors, screen layout, and key behavior.UPATE: I was thinking about this some more, what if you used this extension to not only change the colors and behaviors of the Gmail interface but also replace the logo and branding? [...]

Presentation Zen: No excuse for tedium: Advice on giving technical presentations

Good advice and some great links. There is a program within SAP to send our entire group of speakers to presentation school. The point is not to provide them with better powerpoint skills. (God knows we need ‘em too, have you ever seen SAP presentations? Some of the slides damn near have every single pixel [...]

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