January 08, 2004

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 18, 2004 - January 24,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 18, 2004 - January 24,
2004 Archives 01/22/2004 07:16 AM
talking points interviews george soros. also, josh is already up in new hamphire on his reader funded venture .. TPM has a good interview with George Soros .. interviews

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 11, 2004 - January 17,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 11, 2004 - January 17,
2004 Archives 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
Joshua Micah Marshall has published Clark’s testimony .. Transcript of Clark's testimony to congress on Iraq .. getting unfairly drudged .. invented quotes

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 25, 2004 - January 31,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 25, 2004 - January 31,
2004 Archives 01/26/2004 04:12 PM
BREAKING: Kerry couldn't get laid at St. Paul's! .. Josh Marshall

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"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 04, 2004 - January 10,
2004 Archives"

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: January 04, 2004 - January 10,
2004 Archives" 01/07/2004 06:08 PM

January 2004 Zillman Column: Finding
Experts on the Internet 2004

January 2004 Zillman Column: Finding
Experts on the Internet 2004 12/27/2003 05:28 PM
January 2004 Zillman Column - Finding Experts on the Internet 2004
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Finding Experts on the Internet 2004.pdf
http://www.zillmancolumns.com/
http://www.InternetExperts.inf o/

The January 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Finding Experts on the Internet 2004. This column brings together the many resources for finding qualified experts on the Internet. The Internet is the source for literally thousands upon thousands of experts on every subject and this column gives you a comprehensive listing of where to find these experts and is taken from my Subject Tracer™ Information of Blog. This is a "must" reference for anyone even thinking about obtaining the leading expert in your business or special interest subject area!

January 26, 2004

January 26, 2004 01/26/2004 03:31 AM

“Please do not use cover letters that you copied out of a book. If you write ‘I understand the position also requires a candidate who is team- and detail-oriented, works well under pressure, and is able to deal with people in departments throughout the firm’ then at best people will think you're a bullshit artist and at worst they will think that you were not born with the part of the brain that allows you to form your own thoughts and ideas.”

Getting Your Résumé Read

January 30, 2004

January 30, 2004 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

Ted r eviews my speech.

Scoble: “I hate to play the ‘it'll be fixed in Longhorn’ card, but I'm going to.” OK, you tell me when my customers have Longhorn and I'll think about using .NET then, mm-kay? My money is on 2008.

The Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool might be a solution. Has anyone evaluated it in depth?

January 31, 2004

January 31, 2004 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

Geodog: “So I walked into the cafe tonight and looked around for the Joel group -- like any other geek, I was too shy to ask anyone, but when I spotted a big table lined entirely with males, mostly in their mid-twenties to early forties, not too well dressed, predominantly European-American, I knew that I had found the geek gathering.”

January 27, 2004

January 27, 2004 01/27/2004 01:43 PM

Reminders:

• Thursday morning I'll be giving a free lecture at UC Davis
• Friday evening,  7:30 PM, I'll be meeting up with a huge group of Joel on Software folks at Au Coquelet Cafe, 2000 University Ave. at Milvia, in Berkeley, California. If anybody is nearby please go in and warn the manager we're coming; I got about 45 rsvps.
• Not in California? I'm working on a Fog Creek open house in New York Real Soon Now.
• Anywhere else? Join our Meetup group and hang out with other Joel on Software readers in your city on Wednesday, February 18th. So far 28 cities in the world have hit critical mass (5). The London group is already up to 29 members!

In the meantime entertain yourself with some of Rory Blyth's inspired comix.

This one's a riot: "Ooooooh! I know! We could print out the data, scan it in, and then paste the image into Excel!".

And some disclaimers:

• The remark yesterday in tiny print could not possibly be homophobic, because I'm gay and thus granted automatic diplomatic immunity from all charges of homophobia.
• Putting spaces in front of commas is really not that bad, but I stand by my claim that it's not very professional looking, and, merely as a point of information, at least on the resumes I get, this particular error occurs on 37% of cover letters from people with Indian names and 0% of the cover letters of people without Indian names.
• Anyway talking about punctuation is really, really boring, so please let's stop.
• There's nothing like 100,000 incoming links from Slashdot to uncover those rare people without a sense of humor... but you can't tell people, "no, it's a joke, you just didn't get it" because the one thing common among all people without a sense of humor is that they inevitably think they have a very good sense of humor; your joke just wasn't funny.

In the spirit of the escalator

The number one best way to get someone to look at your resume closely: come across as a human being, not a list of jobs and programming languages. Tell me a little story. "I've spend the last three weeks looking for a job at a real software company, but all I can find are cheezy web design shops looking for slave labor." Or, "We yanked our son out of high school and brought him to Virginia. I am not going to move again until he is out of high school, even if I have to go work at Radio Shack or become a Wal*Mart greeter." (These are slightly modified quotes from two real people.)

These are both great. You know why? Because I can't read them without thinking of these people as human beings. And now the dynamic has changed. I like you. I care about you. I like the fact that you want to work in a real software company. I wanted to work in a real software company so much I started one. I like the fact that you care more about your teenage son than your career.

I just can't care about "C/C++/Perl/ASP" in the same way.

So, maybe you won't be qualified for the job, but it's just a lot harder for me to dismiss you out of hand.

January 28, 2004

January 28, 2004 01/28/2004 06:40 PM

For some reason, Microsoft's brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool... a tool that has been common in software development environments since, oh, about 1950, and taken so much for granted that it's incredibly strange that nobody noticed that .NET doesn't really have one.

Please Sir May I Have a Linker?

** Heute verwende ich die deutsche Version von CityDesk um mein Weblog zu erstellen. No, I don't speak German, but I know CityDesk well enough to find my way around!

"January 2004"

"January 2004" 01/03/2004 07:07 PM

January 17, 2004

January 17, 2004 01/17/2004 10:59 PM

Meetup.com organizes regularly scheduled Joel on Software reader meetings in 640 cities around the world on the third Wednesday of every month. The next one is coming up on January 21st.

I'm not sure exactly how it works... I think that as soon as they get 5 members confirmed in a particular city, the meetup is officially on, otherwise it's automatically cancelled.

Meetup.com was created by my fellow New Yorker, Scott "Fries With That?" Heiferman, who also founded i-traffic.com (now a part of agency.com).

January 19, 2004

January 19, 2004 01/19/2004 02:02 PM

SysAdmin Week

After a bit of a scare discovering that a few of our critical files were not getting backed up, and with various system administration things starting to cross from annoying into the category of downright emergencies, I am going to spend a few days focused on improving our network infrastructure.

All of our backups are done to hard drives, not tapes. It's not that much more expensive than tape, and it's a lot more convenient. For example all our workstations and laptops are backed up using Veritas NetBackup Pro which creates hard-drive based backups on a server. Anyone can browse the last 5 versions of any file on their hard drive and instantly restore it; if a complete system is lost NetBackup does "bare metal restore", and, the part I like best -- if two people have the same file it is only stored once. This saves gigs and gigs of space because almost every machine here has the same OS files, the same development environment, the same full text of MSDN, etc. Servers are backed up over the Internet using Dantz Retrospect, also to a hard drive at a different location. Retrospect has the advantage of supporting "open file backup" on SQL Server databases, backing them up while they're running. As far as I can tell, this relies on an underlying feature of Windows 2000 which allows you to make virtually instantaneous, atomic copies of any open file (Windows does this using "Copy on Write," where the file is simply marked as being "copied," the copy itself doesn't take place until one copy is written to, and then only on a sector-by-sector basis). Dantz has the disadvantage of some architectural decisions that reflect it's Macintosh heritage which do not really make sense... for example, rather than the traditional Windows server model of having two apps -- an invisible service and a management console which controls that service -- there's just one app. This means you can only run one management console and if you lose it (e.g. someone else is running it in a different session) you can't get in, requiring drastic process killing or rebooting. And the number of new concepts you need to learn to set up simple server backups is astonishing... it took me way too long to get things set up and then it took several weeks of occasional tinkering to get it to work, and even then it seems to get flaky and decide it doesn't want to backup and doesn't want to tell anyone that it doesn't want to backup, so I have a weekly scheduled task to kick the sucker. Somewhat frustrating but I have no experience with other server backup products and suspect the others are just as bad.

I just woke up to the fact that we were paying about $6/GB for disk storage on Dell SCSI RAID arrays, and for backup media I don't need SCSI and I don't need RAID, so I'm going to try a LaCie Big Disk Drive connected to the backup server over USB 2.0 which is about $1.20/GB.

Meetup

So far there are 136 people registered at Meetup.com. London, Toronto, and Dublin have passed the threshold of 5 members for meetings to actually be held. I was thinking it might be fun to pick the city with the most people on this list for my next vacation.

 

January 13, 2004

January 13, 2004 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

Whoo hoo! There's nothing better than shipping a new product.

Fog Creek Software is proud to announce: FogBUGZ for Unix and FogBUGZ for Macintosh.

All About FogBUGZ
System Requirements: Unix | Macintosh | Windows

Today is Monday, right?

January 20, 2004

January 20, 2004 01/22/2004 02:10 AM

I will be speaking on the subject of Designing Applications with the User in Mind at UC Davis on January 29th. The speech is free and open to the public so if you're in the Davis/Sacramento area please come.

UC Davis
Thursday, January 29, 2004
10 - 11:30am
at the University Club (map )

 

January 12, 2004

January 12, 2004 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

The Montréal Dinner will be held at Marché Mövenpick, 1 Place Ville-Marie, near St. Catherine & University, downtown, on Thursday, January 15th, 2004, at 7:30 PM.

The Berkeley Dinner will be at 7:30, on January 30th, 2004. Tentatively scheduled at Au Coquelet Cafe, 2000 University Ave. at Milvia.

January 2004 Zeitgeist

January 2004 Zeitgeist 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
Top 10 search terms for this past month. 3331 different keyphrases Search Percent .dmg ...

ASP.NET Webcast Week - January 19-23,
2004

ASP.NET Webcast Week - January 19-23,
2004 01/18/2004 11:30 PM
Learn about ASP.NET from the experts! These free events are live and interactive. Live code demos and attendees asking in depth engaging questions are all part of this live event. This is a great way to get educated, engaged, and enlightened on Microsoft developer tools.

January 2004 Letter from the Editor

January 2004 Letter from the Editor 01/23/2004 02:24 PM
Many new data-related features will be enhanced in Europa, including the addition of support for new data types such as variable character, variable binary, and blob types for increased compatibility with SQL Server 2000 and the upcoming version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon." Support for subqueries is just one of many new enhancements to the SQL language in Europa, such as the ability to execute the following: SELECT * FROM foo t1 WHERE f1 IN (SELECT f1 FROM foo).

Bits & Bytes for January 26, 2004

Bits & Bytes for January 26, 2004 01/26/2004 08:43 PM
Internet News Jan 27 2004 0:35AM GMT

Execs & Accounts for January 26, 2004

Execs & Accounts for January 26, 2004 01/26/2004 08:43 PM
Internet News Jan 27 2004 0:35AM GMT

MSDN January 2004 Shipment

MSDN January 2004 Shipment 12/23/2003 01:33 AM
-2011.2 DirectX® 9.0 SDK Update - (Summer 2003), Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework, Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit 1.0, Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SDK (English), Windows® SharePoint™ Services 2.0 (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese) -2589 Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 1 (English). Note: Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition includes a premium technologies CD that includes SQL Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and their latest service packs. The premium technologies CD is not included as such because these products are already included in your subscription, however the CD is available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. -2590 Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 2 (English) -2591 Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 3 (English) -2592 Microsoft Office Outlook® Standard 2003 (English) -2499.1 Microsoft Business Contact Manager for Office Outlook® 2003, Microsoft Data Analyzer, Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003 (English) -2501.1 Microsoft Business Solutions - Solomon 5.5 Volume 2, Solomon 5.5 Service Pack 1, FRx Financial Reporter 6.5 for Solomon and Forecaster 6.7 (English) -2503.1 Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 7.5 Disc 2, Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 7.5 Service Pack 1, FRx Financial Reporter 6.5 for Great Plains and Forecaster 6.7 -2594 Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 1 (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese) -2595 Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 2 (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Simplified Chinese) -2596 Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack - Disc 1 (French, German, Italian, Japanese) -2597 Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (English

Execs & Accounts for January 23, 2004

Execs & Accounts for January 23, 2004 01/23/2004 08:49 PM
Internet News Jan 24 2004 1:04AM GMT

Linux Advisory Watch - January 14, 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 14, 2004 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
This week, advisories were released for phpgroupware, kernel, jitterbug, ethereal, kdepim, cvs, kdepim, and tcpdump. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.

mozilla.org Status Update #220 (January
5, 2004)

mozilla.org Status Update #220 (January
5, 2004) 01/07/2004 03:07 PM

Linux Security Week - January 5th 2004

Linux Security Week - January 5th 2004 01/05/2004 07:19 AM

V2N1 January 2004 AwarenessWatch
Newsletter

V2N1 January 2004 AwarenessWatch
Newsletter 01/04/2004 03:31 PM
AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter V2N1 January 2004
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N1.pdf

Awareness Watch™ Newsletter
http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

The January 2004 V2N1 AwarenessWatch™ is available as a 22 page .pdf file from the above URL. The AwarenessWatch Featured Report covers selected single subject directories, gateways and portals available currently on the Internet. The AwarenessWatch Spotters cover some excellent just released papers as well as new identified Internet sources.

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 January
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 January
2004) 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
Besides the first release candidate of perl 5.8.3, lots of things happened on perl5-porters this week. Read about new features to be added to the language, lots of bugs and fixes, and other odds and ends.

php|architect: January 2004 Issue
Released!

php|architect: January 2004 Issue
Released! 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
For everyone out there that hasn't managed to hear about it yet, php|architect has released their latest issue - January 2004.

Independent Status Reports (January 18,
2004)

Independent Status Reports (January 18,
2004) 01/18/2004 06:02 PM

Linux Advisory Watch - January 23, 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 23, 2004 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
This week, advisories were released for cvs, screen, kdepim, mc, tcpdump, kernel, slocate, honeyd, isakmpd, and lftp. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, OpenBSD, Red Hat, Trustix, and Turbolinux.

Symantec After January 7, 2004, your
computer slows down

Symantec After January 7, 2004, your
computer slows down 01/10/2004 01:10 PM

PHP Magazine: January 2004 Issue PDF
Released!

PHP Magazine: January 2004 Issue PDF
Released! 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Also in the realm of PHP publications this morning, PHP Magazine is proud to announce their latest issue - January 2004.

mozilla.org Status Update #221 (January
19, 2004)

mozilla.org Status Update #221 (January
19, 2004) 01/22/2004 02:39 AM

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18
January 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18
January 2004) 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Besides the release of a new maintenance version of perl, this week passed and carried its usual heterogeneous load of bugs. Read below for all the details.

Linux Advisory Watch - January 8, 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 8, 2004 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
This week, advisories were released for the Linux kernel, lftp, ethereal, screen, BIND, libnids, mpg321, nd, jabber, zebra, fsp, and vbox3. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital EnGarde Secure Linux, Fedora, Immunix, Mandrake, Openwall, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbolinux.

Linux Advisory Watch - January 2, 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 2, 2004 01/02/2004 09:37 AM
This week, advisories were released for xsok, cvs, and proftpd. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, and Mandrake.

Linux Advisory Watch - January 2nd 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 2nd 2004 01/02/2004 07:15 AM

Linux Advisory Watch - January 16, 2004

Linux Advisory Watch - January 16, 2004 01/17/2004 10:45 PM
This week, advisories were released for phpgroupware, kernel, jitterbug, ethereal, kdepim, cvs, kdepim, and tcpdump. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.
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January 08, 2004

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