http://license2code.com Do you expect me to talk? No, I expect you to code. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, it didn't save my baby...but it is pretty sweet. I've used it extensively at my office for the past 6 months or so. ClearContext (http://clearcontext.com) is a great Outlook plug-in for managing your email. There are others for managing your workday (such as the GTD - Getting Things Done - ... http://license2code.com/2008/01/13/clearcontext-saved-my-baby/ I had a manager that gave me the advice to "never leave a job because of unhappiness". It took me many years of thinking and internalizing this before I really understood what it meant. Leaving because you're unhappy implies that you haven't identified the specific reasons that you're unhappy. You owe ... http://license2code.com/2007/10/30/never-leave-a-job-because-youre-unhappy/ A workplace book group is starting up with Core Security Patterns. This is a well regarded title if you're to believe amazon reviews. And its huge. If you are perhaps bored to sleep by the topic and an opportunistic thief breaks in thinking you an easy mark, you'll have something ... http://license2code.com/2007/09/27/coming-up-to-speed-on-security-and-identity/ Ha. We had a contest to restart blogging. I won. http://license2code.com/2007/09/27/back-in-blackspy/ I had a recruiter from Google contact me about a management position (likely they Googled my resume off my personal website). It's so very cool being contacted by one of the hippest and most-coveted tech companies in the world. (For those concerned, I'm not planning on changing jobs anytime time soon.) http://license2code.com/2007/05/12/google-called/ The devs at Ignite Realtime (the open source, community site for Jive Software's open source Real Time Communications) were brave/kind enough to share a detailed post about their intended changes to their release process. On the Release Train at Ignite Realtime I'm impressed they're willing to share this with us (the global ... http://license2code.com/2007/04/29/on-the-release-train-at-ignite-realtime/ I've started the early design of Social Club - a social mud that uses IM instead of Telnet as the client. There are hundreds of social muds and many more muds in general. Additionally, there are blockbuster muds like WoW and SecondLife that are graphical and wonderful. The reason I'm ... http://license2code.com/2007/04/28/social-club/ And oldie-but-goodie about teamwork and effectiveness. "Team work is submission. You submit your ideas, your effort, and your ego to the work. You “lower yourself” (check your ego at the door) to become just another peer among equals. The team decides. The team implements. You’re just another guy who did his ... http://license2code.com/2007/04/28/teamwork-is-submission/ Further signs of our strong developer community - minnebar is largest barcamp outside of India. And at the recent NoFluffJustStuff it was announced that Minneapolis is one of only five cities that will host two count-'em two NFJS weekends (October 12 -14, 2007). Good news for Minnebar as well - ... http://license2code.com/2007/04/27/twin-cities-at-least-5th-best/ Adobe Liberates Flex. Moving the Flex SDK and compiler to open source is a nice move - will it matter? Apparently Adobe was listening to this blogger's plea to open source Flex. http://license2code.com/2007/04/27/good-news-for-people-who-like-flex/