Archive for the ‘Links’ Category

New Photo Blog - Israel Photos

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

For the past three and a half years, my wife and I have been using a pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera to try and capture our future memories. Although it has and continues to serve us well, we are very often frustrated with the amount of time it takes to capture ...

Items of Interest: 2007-06-04

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine - Inside look at the Google Search Quality department in this behind-the-scenes article in the New York Times. You will learn something new about "The Algorithm". Also see the followup from Matt Cutts highlighting Five Things You Didn't Know About Google Search Google trying to ...

Items of Interest: 2007-06-01

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Microsoft Data Centers - Getting Bigger and Bigger - Can you say 1.3 miles worth of server rooms? (Channel 10) Microsoft vs. TestDriven.NET, May 31 2007 - An update from Jamie on the situation. Secret Geek says that we shouldn't blame Microsoft, rather we should just blame Jason Webber, the Microsoft ...

Items of Interest: 2007-05-31

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Microsoft vs. TestDriven.net from Jamie Cansdale - Jamie gives a full accounting, including all emails exchanged between himself and Microsoft over the past two years of bullying by a Visual Studio PM, while MS tries to get him to stop distributing his Unit Testing framework because of dubious licensing issues ...

If you thought that three monitors was pushing it…

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Check out Stefan Didak's office. Nine monitors, 10 systems (including laptops). One wicked setup. He has also posted an FAQ answering (or avoiding) some of the common questions that a geek will come up with after salivating over the first picture of this home office.

Productivity Improvements

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Check out this post on the JOS forum by SumoRunner, describing what things were like "back in the day", and why old-timers like him scoff at so-called productivity gains achieved by the IDE or framework of the day.