The secret of becoming organised seems to be that those activities that make you organised have to become habit – they have to become second nature. Basecamp is working well for me right now because it’s new enough that it not being a habit is not a problem. In the next week or so it’s use will enter that odd phase where it no longer has the sheen of the new, but nor is it ingrained habit.
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I’ve been living by Basecamp for around 5 hours now (see my previous post on the subject), and it’s gone OK. I’ve the following milestones:
- Jobs for this week
- Jobs for the weekend
- Streamline finances (involves shutting down old accounts)
- Organise Scrum training (this is a company thing I’ve let slip)
- Organise company away day (see above!)
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I am not the most organised person in the world. I have a poor short-term memory, so I write things down. But because I have a poor short-term memory, I loose the paper. I tried to become more organised – I brought Getting Things Done. Then I lost it. I feel I might be more organised if I stop loosing my organisational aids. With that in mind, I have decided to run my life using Basecamp – I might loose a piece of paper, but I’m less likely to loose the Internet.
My company name – Sam Newman’s life. My Project – Fix my life.
I give it 1 week.
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Shows how to attach custom
CSS to any site using firefox
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Allows you to attach custom DHTML to any site using this firefox extension
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Think of it as Tomcat + the servlet
API, only for Python rather than Java
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The excellent MT plugin that forces moderation of tracbakcs and comments on old (spam attracting) posts
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A O’Reilly introduction to mod_security
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The Apache mod_security blog
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The website for the apache security book
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A distributed transactional cache
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In no particular order:
Spam prevention measures
MT Moderate is working like a charm – the latest wave of Trackback spams (mostly load related which makes a nice change to the recent influx of poker-related spam) all being caught.
Comment moderation is back off, and I’ve turned trackbacks back on. I’ve uninstalled MT-Blacklist after the recent perl issues here, and have instead installed MT Moderate which automatically forces moderation on all old trackbacks and comments. These older posts tend to attract more spam. We’ll see how it goes.
In the next release of the weblog, expect to see MT Moderate used alongside TypeKey and some serious mod_security work to block comment posting from known open relays.
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Interview with 37Signals covering Ruby on Rails and Basecamp
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A very smal database, suitible for bundling with applications
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An opensource JMS implementation with some nice documentation
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Using message hospitals to handle OpenAdaptor messages that can’t be processed
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A fantastic online tool – give it a website, and it’ll extract the colours used
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456 Berea Street on floats
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Either genius, insane, a giant scam or all three…
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An EAI framework
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Using Javascript to create a gradual fade to show change.
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A paper by Pramod Sadalage and Martin Fowler on managing DB change
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You really don’t need the Yak hair
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I wanted the first one, and I really want this one.
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Damien on different types of grid solutions
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Part of tthe Open Adaptor OS project, bhavaya provides a realtime view of relation DB’s
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Bastards!
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An online currency convertor
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From the maker of SmartCVS comes a subversion client
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An ItelliJ plugin that works with a server-side component to provide notification as to when a
CVS or Subversion repository changes
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Curio is apparently “The Ultimate Idea Development Environment for Mac OS X” – but think flowcharts and it makes more sense
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A basic plugin for the very good code coverage tool
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Finds duplication in Java and .NET code
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A few gotchas in Java, including information on why finalize is pretty much useless
