Why RSS is good for you

RSS as a Competative Analysis Tool. Track your competition and find out what bloggers are saying about them, and you.

This is a follow up to RSS for the insanely busy executive. An executive summary about what RSS is, and why you should care. Which I recommend if you are not familiar with RSS, or how to set it up.

On a personal note; since I've started surfing with RSS I am far more efficient in keeping up-to-date about what is going on in the business/technical areas I am interested in. It is a valuable tool for filtering the over-abundance of information that is the internet.

Google's open source application deployer explained

Google talks about Slack at the Australian Unix Users Group in Oct, 2006.

From the article: "Slack is a source deployment system and it's the way we install applications on servers," Still said, adding Slack is based around a centralized configuration repository which is then deployed onto selected machines in a "pull" method. Each of the "worker" machines asks for its new configuration regularly or when a manual command is run.

[slashdot.org]

Great resource of how-to business guides

Work.com has a great list of how-to guides to help with your small business needs. Unfortunately no RSS - so you have to check back regularly. [del.icio.us]

How to get into management, and what to do when you get there.

Like many of you I am looking at the next step in your careers. I'm an experienced developer, with leadership experience with small teams. I want to be more leader and less developer. So I'm asking the question everyone should be asking about their career aspirations

How do I get there from here?

I came upon these articles from Monster while surfing around for advice for myself, I hope they help you too.

How do I get into management? [monster.com]
Advice for New Managers [monster.com]

Yahoo! vs Google Financial Comparison

An interesting comparison of the Earnings of Yahoo! and Google. [digg]

Science Roundup - Radiation eating bugs and the one pixel camera

Scientists discover bacteria that sustains itself from Radioactive Uranium? [slashdot.org] microgodzilla?

The One Pixel Camera [slashdot.org]
That's right, One (1) pixel. This camera uses a series of mirrors to capture and optimize the image before trying to save it to memory. Obviously not ready for production with the poor resolution shown in the picture and the 15 minute processing time, but an interesting first step that may help future camera designs get even better images.

IE7 vs Firefox 2, Google Website Optimizer and an interesting JavaScript tooltip example

IE7 vs Firefox 2: memory usage showdown. [lifehacker.com]

Google launches Website Optimizer [slashdot.org]

Example: Lightweight JavaScript tooltip [del.icio.us]