xero

"Since March of this year I've been running a private web spider looking at the number of web tags on web pages belonging to the Fortune 1000 and the top 1,000 web sites by traffic. Using the spider I've been able to see which products are deployed where, and how those products are growing or shrinking. The web tags being tracked are those used for ad serving, web analytics, A/B testing, audience measurement and similar." - xero from Bookmarklet

Procedural code gets information then makes decisions. Object-oriented code tells objects to do things. - xero

1 Novice * rigid adherence to rules * no discretional judgment 2 Advanced beginner * situational perception still limited * all aspects of work are treated separately and given equal importance 3 Competent * coping with crowdedness (multiple activity, information) * now partially sees action as part of longer term goals * conscious, deliberate planning 4 Proficient * holistic view of situation, rather than in terms of aspects * sees what is most important in a situation * uses maxims for guidance, meaning of maxims may vary according to situation 5 Expert * no longer reliant on rules, guidelines, maxims * intuitive grasp of situation, based on tacit knowledge * vision of what is possible - xero

1. Unconscious incompetence - The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it. 2. Conscious incompetence - Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, he or she does recognize the deficit, without yet addressing it. 3. Conscious competence - The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires a great deal of consciousness or concentration. 4. Unconscious competence - The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it becomes "second nature" and can be performed easily (often without concentrating too deeply). He or she may or may not be able teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned. - xero

This turned out to be a date+time dependancy bug where a timestamp generated on two different servers were being compared and expected to be in a certain relation to each other as if they were on the same box. That is, a "new Date()" on the app server and "GETDATE()" on the db server were expected to be near the same. - xero

"Freeside is a Georgia nonprofit corporation, organized to harbor a community of coders, makers, and information security researchers in order to promote collaboration and community outreach." - xero from Bookmarklet

"Sourcemap is a tool for producers, business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains. The site is a social network where anyone can contribute to a shared understanding of the story behind products. You can simulate the impact of manufacturing, transporting, using and throwing away products using their Life-Cycle Assessment calculator. This web-based tool uses linked data from geological and geographic resources." - xero from Bookmarklet

Whoa, cool. - Hosh

Un-minifies (de-minifies?), unpacks, and unobfuscates JavaScript source code. - xero

http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - xero

FriendFeed is awesome, I'm done saying anything else about it. Have fun, be happy! - Robert Scoble

It's only as awesome as you make it. :) - xero

"Indica is a Finnish pop rock group founded in 2001. Jani Jalonen of Sony Music became interested in the group, and a recording contract was signed 2003. Indica's first album, Ikuinen virta was released in 2004. It has since sold platinum in Finland.Jonsu (vocals, violin), Heini (bass), Sirkku (keyboards), Jenny (guitar) and Laura (drums) founded Indica in 2001. Before this the girls had already spent their entire childhood surrounded by classical music and had also played in a few different band line-ups. In the Christmas of 2002 Indica signed a management contract with Peter Kokljuschin and in 2003 a record deal with SonyMusic, leading to Indica starting work on their debut album." - xero from Bookmarklet