I am a fan of good receipes and checklists and just discovered the podcast “The Managing Software Development (MSD) Show” by James Edgell, which I highly recommend for all folks being responsible for IT-people and in the end for what they produce. The value of your software development resources (people) consists of two things: their [...]
Archive for April, 2009
April 29, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Podcasts, Softskills
Social Tagging: people • Podcasts • team
Filed under: Podcasts, Softskills
Social Tagging: people • Podcasts • team
April 28, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts
Social Tagging: culture • Inspiration • Podcasts
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts
Social Tagging: culture • Inspiration • Podcasts
Today I listened to an interesting podcast “John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW” in which a famous line by Walt Disney was quoted: “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” This indeed makes a huge difference!
A nice gadget: www.jetlev-flyer.com
Once in a while every bigger website is relaunched. In order to deploy bigger changes without bothering your visitors with strange behaviour during a data migration, updates and the like, you should use Apache2′s mod_rewrite. Just put the following lines in a .htaccess file in your webroot directory and all traffic (also deep links to [...]
April 12, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Linux, Productivity
Social Tagging: commandline • Linux
Filed under: Linux, Productivity
Social Tagging: commandline • Linux
I had a list of files from a large file structure as a result from a maintenance script run with lines like this: /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/25/4f1feabbd76f79ecab150bdee3f6ae4d.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/25/e506e433a2d87f0275c7641da59bbf7f.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/28/901c4f081645b986e9b1377d3f586b8e.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/28/6bec4d4bbcf8f596c40694210d220a3b.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/24/477c535d6111605c8f6020a959f32fde.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/24/9f253a96fc26d8f6d9e61b8f1bdb3453.xml Each line represented a document path to a file which was supposed to be removed from the filesystem. You can do that with the following simple [...]
April 4, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Linux, Productivity, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: commandline • Linux • Productivity
Filed under: Linux, Productivity, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: commandline • Linux • Productivity
I am currently working on a project in which we have lots of images from an old CMS waiting to be migrated into a new layout. Of course there are restrictions so it should not happen that certain image types exceed a certain max. width. OK, we have many many images… So I took a [...]
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