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ISO 9000

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:29:12 GMT

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The Dilbert cartoons lampooned many aspects of the ISO 9000 specs, such as an insistence that everything be labeled, and every process be documented. In large part, a company's compliance with ISO 9000 has to do with the thoroughness of its documentation. To put it succinctly:

• It doesn't matter if your products suck, as long as you follow well-documented processes to make them.

• It doesn't matter if your processes are lame, as long as you carefully measure how closely you adhere to them.

Tags: funny

7 "must read" Linux tutorials

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:56:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.linuxscrew.com

7 "must read" Linux tutorials

If you're going to have long relations with Linux operating system and use it as efficiently as possible I suggest to read the following howtos and guides that will help you on the way to advanced Linux user status

Tags: linux

9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:58:49 GMT

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Clip Source: aymanh.com

9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know

JavaScript is a fully-featured Object-Oriented programming language. On the surface, it shares syntactical similarities with Java and C, but the mentality is quite different. At its core, JavaScript is more similar to functional languages. Inside is a list of JavaScript tips, some offer techniques to simulate features found in C-like languages (such as assertions or static variables). Others are meant to improve performance and explore some of the more obscure parts of the web scripting language.

Tags: javascript

Will you need a JavaScript framework on your next project?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:46:49 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.reindel.com

Will you need a JavaScript framework on your next project?

One of the pitfalls of using a JavaScript framework, especially among beginners, is the ability to quickly lose sight of what is specific to the framework, and what is specific to the core JavaScript language. However, as bandwidth constraints continue to dissolve, and browser compatibility issues erode, it makes sense to consider a framework on each project. Whether or not you actually use a framework after these considerations are made, is totally up to you.

Event Binding

DOM Selectors

Ajax

Effects

Tags: javascript

25 Awesome tutorials for web designers

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:13:33 GMT

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Clip Source: woork.blogspot.com

25 Awesome tutorials for web designers

This is a collection of the best tutorials for web designers I found this month browsing some websites I like. It also includes some of my post :) Take a look!

Tags: links, web development

Building a website API with Django. Part 1: API functions

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:01:07 GMT

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Building a website API with Django. Part 1: API functions

WAPI and django-oauthsp are reaching the point when they are starting to become useful, so I decided it was time to write some articles explaining how they work and how you can use them in your sites. I'm currently using both of them in production at byNotes and I haven't run into any problems for now, but YMMV.

This article talks about the principles behind WAPI and walks you trough the creation of a simple API function. Next articles in this series will explain more advanced concepts like custom serializations, user authentication against django.contrib.auth or using OAuth.

Tags: django

pg_diff - compare two PostgreSQL database schemas

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:43:51 GMT

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Clip Source: snippets.dzone.com

pg_diff - compare two PostgreSQL database schemas (See related posts)

# This is a simple approach to track database schema changes in PostgreSQL.

# In some way it is similar to diff program, finding out structure changes

# and results in SQL script to upgrade to new schema.

Tags: postgresql, tools

7 More Sites Strictly for Web Developers

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:03:10 GMT

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7 More Sites Strictly for Web Developers

Okay, so after that snafu we had with the first go-round, we thought we would try and make it up to those developers who were a bit let down by the 7 Websites No Website Developer Should Be Without article that we put together, which may not have been as developer oriented as we had led people to believe. Though we are trying to repair the breach and so we’ve gone compiling once more for this new list of sites that we are more confident developers will appreciate.

Tags: web development

9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:34:11 GMT

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Clip Source: nettuts.com

This web roundup will list nine developers that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter. They represent the best of the best and are extremely active in the community. Be sure to follow each and every one of them. They might even help you if you've hit a bump in your coding! By the time you're through with this list, you'll probably think, "Why didn't he include this person!". Well be sure to leave a comment with those that I left off.

9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter

In Web Roundups by Jeffrey Way

Tags: web development

Raphaël - graphics JavaScript library

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:03:23 GMT

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Clip Source: dmitry.baranovskiy.com

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. In case you want to create your own specific chart or image crop-n-rotate widget, you can simply achieve it with this library.

Raphaël uses SVG and VML as a base for graphics creation. Because of that every created object is a DOM object so you can attach JavScript event handlers or modify objects later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing cross-browser and easy. Currently library supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Tags: javascript

Building a Proper MVC Pattern for the web

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:13:47 GMT

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Clip Source: welcome.totheinter.net

Building a Proper MVC Pattern for the web

Clearly this isn’t any way to design an app. JavaScript and AJAX have become increasingly important in an application’s user interface, and many web apps entirely depend on it. There has to be a better way to organize the JavaScript in your app to be more efficient, testable, and most importantly - manageable.

What’s needed is to rethink web application architecture. What’s needed is a new MVC pattern- er, patterns.

Tags: web development

Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:12:16 GMT

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Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax

Everyone’s up in arms to embrace distributed version control as the new must-have tool for the developer in the know. Though many people have not yet migrated from Subversion, those that have almost invariably extoll the virtues of their particular choice. But though all of the major DVCS’s have features that set them above the previous generation of centralized systems, none stands head-and-shoulders above the others as Subversion does among the last generation: each of them was designed for a specific purpose, and each of them will serve those with different habits, workflows and development styles differently. Having used both git and Mercurial for the better part of a year, I’ve had the opportunity to compare the two. It saddened me to see a Twitter-based debate flamewar erupt over which is better, so I thought I’d do my best to try and ease the tension - with analogies!

Tags: source control

Open Source Webinar: Open Source Reporting Tools, by OpenLogic

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:46:03 GMT

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Open Source Webinar: Open Source Reporting Tools, by OpenLogic

Open source reporting tools like Jasper, Pentaho, and BIRT have become increasingly popular with enterprises seeking to gain flexibility in reporting while reducing expenses, but each application has its own strengths and weaknesses. This webinar will provide a comparison across more than 15 key attributes for the most popular open source software reporting tools.

Tags: open source, reporting

YC is a cult

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:52:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.danielharan.com

YC is a cult

Young, impressionable and inexperienced entrepreneurs are willing to sacrifice their health, happiness and creativity while pursuing wealth. (Movie at 11.)

Take Michael Parkatti and Mike Marrone, living the Y Combinator dream, “working 18 hour days for almost two straight months“.

A few weeks into that grueling schedule, they started to produce less than people working normal 40 hour weeks. By now they are so sleep deprived that they are only working at a small fraction of their peak-capacity. Creativity is your most important asset in development, and the first one to go with sleep deprivation.

Tags: startup

Great quotes from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:42:58 GMT

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Great quotes from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds

We have collected some of the best quotes from three of the most influential people in the history of operating systems: Steve Jobs (Apple), Linus Torvalds (Linux) and Bill Gates (Microsoft).

Tags: quotes