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O’Reilly Media book: Business Matters
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781937434236.do When Bette Frick launched her freelance writing and editing business in 1990, not having completed formal business training meant she would make more than a few mistakes. But not applying MBA models meant that as her company grew, her business model fit her rather than some business-school template. …
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AMACOM books: Idea to Invention
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780814432938.do http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814432938 Amazon Germany sells the Kindle edition for EUR 7.86, o’Reilly USA sells the e-book for USD 14.95 – that’s a difference, isn’t it?!!
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“Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web.”
http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying-ourselves-into-the-full-orwell Cory Doctorow: We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell. Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be…
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I like the “Horde” free web-based groupware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horde_(software) My ISP uses Horde to provide me with webmail access. It supports drag-and-drop for moving e-mail messages from the current folder to another folder. Wow, impressive for a browser / web application! Open questions: how do I get all header lines of an e-mail message displayed? I don’t mean “show me the source!” –…
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just installed and set up Mozilla Thunderbird as e-mail client
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird This morning my webmailer was suddenly set “under maintenance” for the time being, and I was “a little stuck”. I am trying to use Thunderbird for the time being. Maybe I will like it. I don’t want my e-mail client to locally cache any messages, not even the headers of all the mail folders…
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Bassett’s Winegums, Maynards Winegums
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bassetts-Winegums/47076432241 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gum http://www.worldofsweets.de/Gummibaerchen/Weingummi/Bassett-s-Traditional-Winegums.html Amazon sells them, too I wasn’t able to find further prominent web pages. They are written wine gums or winegums. The box right in front of me says “Bassett’s Winegums“. This box is a present for herding a friends’ cat.
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O’Reilly Media book: Making Software
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Healthy Programmer: Get Fit, Feel Better, and Keep Coding
http://pragprog.com/book/jkthp/the-healthy-programmer
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InformIT: Peter Smith’s “Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience”
http://www.informit.com/store/software-build-systems-principles-and-experience-9780321769442 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321769442 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780321769442 from Chapter 16: Tool Management: Tool Rules take notes (very, very detailed — nice!) use version control for the source code periodically upgrade tools use version control for the tool binaries There is a very nice and enjoyable section on “breaking the rules”.
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InformIT: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
http://www.informit.com/store/pragmatic-programmer-from-journeyman-to-master-9780321770554