Thursday, December 23, 2010

interesting drupal links

http://drupal.org/project/usage

Blogs
http://gotdrupal.com/
http://drupaleasy.com/
http://www.drupalove.com

people
eaton http://drupal.org/user/16496
ufku http://drupal.org/user/9910
yhahn http://drupal.org/user/264833

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Sunday, September 05, 2010

How going free can be green "progressive pricing"

We have it wrong, supply and demand for carbon creating services should be based on progressive pricing not product pricing. You say what is progressive pricing the more you use the higher you pay per unit.

How about we make every climate impacting service free for what the local set target is, once you go over that usage you have to pay a scale to full price, and over a acceptable use to charge more per unit.

I am impressed how the so called third worlds have such a low footprint on this earth, they do it out of local economics they choose every day economical ways to make things last or use less. Our focus on using more and getting more is not the revolution but a mistake for the way humans are, yes we are lazy that is why we here today.

IDE for PHP development and Drupal? - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1311273/ide-for-php-development-and-drupal

5 Indispensable IT Skills of the Future - Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350908/5_Indispensable_IT_Skills_of_the_Future

Saturday, September 04, 2010

See, YouTube ads can be awesome

These kinds of interactive ads aren’t unprecedented. The most well-known example is probably the Subservient Chicken, a Burger King ad (that ran on its own site, not YouTube). The Old Spice YouTube campaign from earlier this year was another illustration of how humor and interactivity can lead to hits.


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Plex and LG to challenge Apple TV, Boxee, and others

“There will be more content providers investing in writing Plex plug-ins, so your online content choices will grow. And next year, if you’re upgrading your TV, or or buying an LG Blu-ray player, you’ll have the ability to get Plex, built in, at no additional cost. Fully integrated into killer consumer electronics gear, exactly as it should be.”

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Innovation Games

Innovation Games are a new and exciting addition to the body of qualitative research and problem solving techniques focused on the use of collaborative play with customers, colleagues, partners and the community at large. The techniques include both open ended and more focused methods for achieving actionable insights and results.


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Thursday, July 29, 2010

40 RULES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
2.

You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline,
but you cannot con him into meeting it .
3.

At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out.
4.

A user will tell you anything you ask about, but nothing more.
5.

Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the
least convenient is the correct one.
6.

What you don't know hurts you.
7.

There's never enough time to do it right first time but there's
always enough time to go back and do it again.
8.

The bitterness of poor quality lasts long after the sweetness of
making a date is forgotten.
9.

I know that you believe that you understand what you think I
said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I
meant.
10.

What is not on paper has not been said.
11.

A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.
12.

If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs,
you haven't understood the plan.
13.

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
14.

There are no good project managers – only lucky ones.
15.

The more you plan the luckier you get.
16.

If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is
going massively wrong.
17.

A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant
leap for the project manager.
18.

Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and
when, as knowing what excuses to give and when.
19.

Everyone asks for a strong project manager – when they get them
they don't want them.
20.

Overtime is a figment of the naïve project manager's imagination.
21.

Quantitative project management is for predicting cost and
schedule overruns well in advance. Metrics are learned men's excuses.
22.

For a project manager overruns are as certain as death and taxes.
23.

Some projects finish on time in spite of project management best
practices.
24.

Fast – cheap – good – you can have any two.
25.

There is such a thing as an unrealistic timescale.
26.

The project would not have been started if the truth had been
told about the cost and timescale.
27.

A two year project will take three years, a three year project
will never finish.
28.

When the weight of the project paperwork equals the weight of
the project itself, the project can be considered complete.
29.

A badly planned project will take three times longer than
expected – a well planned project only twice as long as expected.
30.

Warning: dates in a calendar are closer than they appear to be.
31.

Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no
time left to change anything.
32.

There is no such thing as scope creep, only scope gallop.
33.

A project gets a year late one day at a time.
34.

If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but really
believe you can make it, you're a project manager.
35.

No project has ever finished on time, within budget, to
requirement – yours won't be the first to.
36.

Managing IT people is like herding cats.
37.

If you don't know how to do a task, start it, then ten people
who know less than you will tell you how to do it.
38.

The person who says it will take the longest and cost the most
is the only one with a clue how to do the job.
39.

The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
40.

The nice thing about not planning is that failure comes as a
complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and
depression.

Your Virtualpm, Linky

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Android Poised For Dominance In China, With Global Implications


More factoids:

- Cost of an iPhone 4 in China: $1,285
- Cost of a Bootleg iPhone 4 "HiPhone": $100
- Cost of a Bootleg Nokia E71 with internet connectivity: $14





Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Hackers plant virus in smartphone games

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/hackers-plant-virus-in-smartphone-games-20100607-xp59.html

code reviews at google

Google tries to do as much as possible through the browser, and that extends to code reviews. We use a web-based code review tool called Mondrian that integrates with the rest of the development infrastructure to provide some unique features.

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Office is now live on SkyDrive

If you don’t live in one of those regions, you can still get access – just click here. You might not get the Web Apps in your favorite language yet, as we are still rolling out updates to different regions. Note that people you share documents with may also need to visit the link above before they can access the documents you share with them.

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Microsoft Expression 4 tools, minus WP7 support

Microsoft is making Expression Studio 4 available in three main versions, going forward:

* Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate: For professional Web designers and organizations. IncludesExpression Blend with SketchFlow, Expression Web with SuperPreview, Expression Encoder Pro and Expression Design.
* Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Premium: Includes Expression Blend, Expression Web with SuperPreview, Expression Encoder and Expression Design.
* Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional: For Web design professionals. Expression Web with SuperPreview, Expression Encoder and Expression Design.


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Sunday, May 23, 2010

How to transfer my Drupal from one host to another

How to transfer my Drupal from one host to another?

Transferring your Drupal application includes copying your files and
database and modifying the settings.php file in the sites/default
folder.

The most important setting which should be modified in settings.php is:

db_url - the MySQL details for your Drupal; the format you should
follow is mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename, e.g. :

$db_url = 'mysql://user_drpl1:password@localhost/user_drpl1';


You should also make sure that the RewriteBase rule in the .htaccess
file is correct. For example, if your Drupal is placed in your
account's main public_html folder, the RewriteBase rule should be:

RewriteBase /

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Qt Creator with the Symbian Platform

This Quick Start is relevant if you want to create Qt applications for the Symbian platform using the Qt Creator IDE (v1.3.1). It explains how to build, debug and deploy Qt applications for Symbian devices, and to build and run (but not debug) applications on the Symbian Emulator

link

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator

http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/symbian

Saturday, March 27, 2010

How Facebook, Twitter and other big sites give back to Open Source

Big sites and services like Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and many others rely heavily on open source software to run their operations. Happily, this isn’t a one-way street. They are also giving back to the open source community, not just by contributing to existing projects, but sometimes by open sourcing their own internal projects, giving back something completely new.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sixsigma


If you ever wonder why Lean Six Sigma hasn't made much improvement on your process, my experience taught me the following:

1. before you change the process, change the people
2. before you change the people, change yourself





Experiment to show hotel prices on Google Maps

With this feature, when you search for hotels on Google Maps you'll be able to enter the dates you plan to stay and see real prices on selected listings. You can click on the price to see a list of advertisers who have provided pricing information for that hotel,

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Top 20 Wireframe Tools

Wireframes can be created in many ways with several tools depending upon one’s communication needs and budget. Most simply, pen and paper are key tools for creating web wireframes.

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