Posts
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi for hacking and development
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Setting up MacVim for Go development using Mac Homebrew
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alecthegeek's funky Go project layout tools
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Git workflow for GitHub Project Wiki
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Handy Hack:Windows Beyond Compare 3 on OS X
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Migrating from Wordpress.com to the Octopress blog engine
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Handy Hack: Check the email address when creating a new Git repo
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Welcome to Jekyll!
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Creating QR codes on Python
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Handy Hack: Mount smbfs on OS X
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Handy Hack for Git refugees in Subversion land
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The last generation of personal computer users and Orwellian future
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Top Tip: ""Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for:" when running git svn
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Cool things at the Melbourne Maker Faire
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2011 in review
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Top Tip: Running Perl Regex Coach on OS/X
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Setting up test printing on a Mac using CUPS-PDF
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Application or IT Environments Management
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Have a *nix sh script put itself into the background
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Setting up a Perl development environment
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My presentation on software process improvement
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My 43 Folder Tickler File
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Using the Khan Academy effectively
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OSDC AU 2010: Get your papers in!
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Handy Hack: Pass podcasts from Liferea to Rhythmbox
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Good habits are worth cultivating
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Starting study for RHCE
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Using Git DVC in conjuntion with a legacy SCM tool
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GSD and Pomodoro technique hacked on Paper
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Oh Dear, not a great welcome back
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Build Audit and Processes: A line of sight from DEV to PROD
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Handy Hack: Calculating Git SHA1 on files without Git installed
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Using TaskCoach for GTD lists
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Handy Hack: Improving Laptop Security, around the loop again
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The Voga Business Value Proposition
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Handy hack: Make changes to the Cygwin mount prefix permanent
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Draft: Introduction to Simple Processes for Small Software Teams
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Top Tip: Windows Perl CPAN slows to crawl using network drives
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Top Tip: How to become a UNIX Geek
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Handy Hack: Make Vim the default editor for all text files
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Handy Hack: Scripts to run Saxon XSLT processor
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Handy Hack:Improving Laptop Security
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Using TaskCoach with Pomodoro
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Learning programming the Alec the Geek way
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Creating a simple professional online brand
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The Pomodoro time management technique
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Top Tips and Handy Hacks for Git
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What social media relationship management really looks like!
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Ubuntu 9.10 Beta Karmic
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How I would change netbook hardware
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Git and Openoffice.org
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Easy Introduction to Git
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What tools does Alec use?
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Top Tip: Upgrade Git on Cygwin
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Handy Hack: Comparing two directory trees on Solaris 8
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It's all about the process stupid!
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Application deployment and change auditing with git
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Top Tips: Using the EEEPC 1000H
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Thanks to git I'm releasing IP into the wild!
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Handy Hack: Make failure optional
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Setting up Serena Dimensions Design Parts and Allocating Roles
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Handy Hack: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on EEE PC 1000H
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How to survive the emotional pressure of working at home
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What is Application Lifecycle Management?
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Yes! At last someone explains the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook
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Handy Hack: Using FriendFeed to follow more than status updates from ANYONE
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What a young developer needs to know
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Packing your laptop for travel and working on the road
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How software developers can make customers life hard
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Surely it can't be so hard to be a better (Emacs and Docbook) geek?
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Pre Sale demonstration techniques for Open Source Geeks
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Handy Hack: Run vim for Windows under Cygwin
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Introduction to using Make to build software
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Social networking services -- one year on
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Customer 2.0 --- What a great idea!
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UUCP email is perfect for OLPC?
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Enterprise 2.0 --- What a waste of time!
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Software Configuration Management: An introduction
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Me Too! Me Too! MS playing follow the leader...
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Post-Agilism anyone?
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Top Tip: Restrict Dimensions Requests to Prime Only
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I've found the santized version of my favourite sound bite
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Top Tip: Using Virtual Box Guests with multiple GNOME desktops
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Can't help but feel a little smug
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All you developers will belong to us
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Top Tip: Installing Cygwin on Windows
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Application Lifecycle Management safe in China!
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Handy Hack:Convert a version controlled file to a different content type
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Well deserved recognition for jarich
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Something I have been whining about for years
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Installing a Serena Dimensions standalone system
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Wake up before Apple just replaces M$?
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Handy Hack: Enter the office lottery syndicate with Perl
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Top Tip: Long flights across the Pacific
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Top Tip: Cygwin Perl has problems running with UNC path names
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Handy Hack: Force cpan utiltiy re-run the configure questions
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An easy way to document process
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Why don't people take notes?
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Having fun with robots on the Intertubes
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How not to live by your own rules (or are you *really* listening Steve Ballmer?)
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Take 2:What I add to Windows that helps make it better
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Don't create slides when you should be writing documents
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Alec's "stream of consciousness" posting set-up
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Bloody hell! Yet more marking drivel trying to sound like meaningful English
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Another lesson from Gordon Ramsay
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Handy Hack: Display Wordpress post title correctly in Jaiku
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The role of psychological testing in recruitment
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How to recruit technical staff
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Customer service in Australia
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Handy Hack: How to configure the cpan utility to use Windows proxies
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Handy Hack: Can't run perldoc on Cygwin
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But the devil is in the detail
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My new software engineering methodology -- BDALAP!
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Handy hack: Install CPAN modules by hand when there are multiple Perls
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Look Ma! I'm an (honorary ) Gen Y member
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Putty -- what a cool tool
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emacs Tramp on Windows
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What I will do when my machine gets back from the menders
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How Gen Y work?
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Emacs!
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Citing out of print books is a bit useless!!
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Software development the Gordon Ramsay way
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Now that's just plain cheeky
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Top Tip: bcm43xx on nx6125
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If only it was that easy in Australia
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Now you know -- eggs are dangerous...
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How to display code in a presentation
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Which fuckwit thought this would work?
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MS Office 2004.5 more like
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Crappy phone
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EEE PC starts to look intresting as well
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If you wonder what I do all day...
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The iPhone starts to look intresting
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Spending far too much time...
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Handy Hack: Making the most of limited hardware
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Sage advice from Tim Berners-Lee
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A proper desktop
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Having a second thoughts about Timemachine - It may not be so bad?
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Upgraded to MS Office 2008
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So little money?
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Oh My! How the world has changed
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Just for the hell of it, another example Web Widget
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Web 2.0 to become Enterprise 2.0
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The easy way to show what you're worth
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How about...
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My Hero!
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Geeks are really romantic softies
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How to present the modern way
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Handy Hack: OS/X Screenshot Options
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Handy Hack: How to configure TextWrangler for svn & svk commit messages on OS/X
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OK -- I have a severe case of techno lust
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Stephen Fry shows social networking as the same 'ol, warmed over
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SaaS to conquer the world?
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Could I live with a compact laptop in Australia?
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You can overdo the 'Business Focused' messaging
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So this is what The Long Tail buzz phrase means
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Duh! Network security 101...
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Apply the 80/20 rule to online living
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Stumbled at the 1st hurdle of 2008
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Geeks are so cool we have pop videos
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Lifehack 101: Get rid of facebook
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Goodbye to most of Web 2.0
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2nd Lifehack for 2008
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Time to write a backup script
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The continuing of rise of the Web OS in 2008?
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How long before HURD dies?
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My favourite Leopard improvements
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BOO! Apple does not give education discounts to school children
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Handy Hack: Freemind on Mac, Fix 'Add Child' shortcut
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Does Mac TimeMachine suck?
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Well I guess it's back to PostScript for publication
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Jack's first foray into video publishing
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A big thanks to the Bell Labs team
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Handy Hack: Compare backups with the original
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Ha! Ha! Young People. There is life in the old folks yet!
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Learning Haskell
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Useful information for travellers to US
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Is it me, or is this really sad?
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Notes from Securecon
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A great Christmas present for the cracker in your family
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My OSDC 2006 talk got blogged
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Alec's measure of Mac adoption
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Intresting tool -- will this increase the public commons of IP?
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Handy Hack: Use the 'locate' command on OS/X
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Tripwire -- what a great product
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A really bad example of commercial blogging
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WMWare Unity Desktop
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Duh! Computer Operations 101 -- have off site backups
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Oh Dear :-( Is this my bitter future?
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Things to remember when you switch to Mac OS/X
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Macports oddness when installing software
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What I add to Mac OS X to make it better
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What I add to Firefox to make it better
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Getting git-svn working on the Mac
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Alec's new job and new Mac
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Installing James MTA on Windows
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How not to market yourself on YouTube?
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Using Second Life in the commercial first life
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Stop showing off and let people get on with the work!
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So this is the point of Second Life...
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Hacking the meat and Second Life at the same time
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Intresting titbit on what a good idea it is to hire quality developers
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Tux is now doing cross marketing deals
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Intresting metric for predicting code quality
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Scrum humour
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Learning about Scrum
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I don't program enough
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Thinking of downgrading to Windows and coLinux
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Slight change in posting policy
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What does the phrase "IT Value" mean?
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Are Gen Y spoiled brats or just a bit different?
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OSDC 2007 has 99 proposals
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Wow! Japanese
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I read this and thought of Peter
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Low Cost Desktop Collaboration
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Spam will no longer be checked here
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Some of the problems of Social Networking
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My blog in Arabic
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Accessing Gmail from multiple pop clients
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Working on my paper for OSDC 2006
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Looks like a good conference should be in the offing
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In the hall of fame
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Posting from a Jabber client
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I have a Spock account
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A pleasant time at the pub
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This suprised me
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Time to try Sunbird again I think
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The force is still with me (I hope)
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My favourite delicious tips
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Another blog than is not ashamed to say "Application Lifecycle Management"
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Class divide in cyberspace: facebook vs. myspace
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I might have to go back to the dark side
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What is Enteprise Change Control?
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UML for ALM Process Documentation
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Can a camera phone really work as a crude scanner
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Capturing ALM Metrics
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Interesting use for school artwork
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Lisa bringing Dad a beer
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Jack and Alec
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OSDC 2007
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An odd blog
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Not just blokes have ego problems
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Agile in the Perl world
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Maybe ClearCase is not so developer friendly after all
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Developer Passion vs. Religious Programmers
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History Ignored?
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This has to be insane
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I should be so lucky
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Feisty Fawn after 6 weeks
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Linux Poster Boy Talks about SCM
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Linus (sic) is a tier one platform
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I just saved A$4 500!
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Here's a good idea for a Web 2.0 business
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Because all the cool kids have one
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I introduced a Y2K bug!
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An Agile trap for the unwary
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Performance tuning Subversion and 'bulk CIs'
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Dimensions of Change
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Design Patterns Workshop
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Handy Hack:How to install Perl modules on Linux
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How to avoid task dependency hell
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Handy Hack: Configure correct version of Java in Ubuntu
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Well that's my weekend screwed!
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Not enough women on computer courses
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Using Thunderbird and Google Calendar
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Software Development: Managing in the dirty trenches
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Software Development: Where are you now?
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Handy Hack: Using an HP Deskjet 640C on MAC OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
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Handy Hack: Connect Linux to a MAC OS X Tiger (10.4) attached printer
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A new challange for Alec
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With Power comes Responsibllty
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Software Development: An example of poor requirements
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I got a new book, Fit for Developing Software
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Software Development: So what do your users need?
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The new website is up
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I posted on /.
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Software Development: An Introduction
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Sexism in the Geek Community
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Do I say anything worthwhile in this blog?
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How are science and maths perceived by society?
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Version Control for Government documents
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Agile projects vs. Change process
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Adding Personal Accountability as a VALUE to Extreme Programming
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Time to eat Humble Pie
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So what's the deal with Ajax?
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Handy Hack:Perl DBI count rows returned from select statment
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What I add to Linux that helps make it better
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So Linux users must be the real {men|women|third sex}
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When 'standard' goes bad
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Have source and change control, or else be afraid; very afraid...
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Handy Hack: How to use Vim netrw in ftp passive mode
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I want to attend this
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All IDE's are crap
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I Crossed the 500 Hits/Day Threshold! Yayyy!!!!
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Handy Hack: format the display on gworldclock clock
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Find the world's most boring blog
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Linux for the ungodly?
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We need more hard computer science, not less
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So why the hell do I use Linux?
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Formal UML documentation for ALM Processes
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Yet more on the Agile debate
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A dark thought for the middle of the night
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Agile is not a panacea, neither is it all wrong
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Handy Hack: How to configure gvim for svn and svk commit messages
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Test Driven Development and EAT'ing are well worth it
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Handy Hack: How to make sudo credentials 'reset'
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Is OSS a receipe for chaos?
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Mason and YUI
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Handy Hacks: How to create an ISO file image in GNOME
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Eclipse 3.2, Junit4 and Debian based Linux
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A new free Australian web site for property owners
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Organisation Wide Processes
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Perl inside-out objects
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OSS: It's not about saving license fee costs
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More on testing Perl applications
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Handy Hack: How to install the Ubuntu install CD onto the hard disk
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Handy Hack: Disable Caps Lock under GNOME
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Now I switched to 32 Bit Linux
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Things you need when you work away from a corporate office
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I switched Linux
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How to be a better consultant
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Beware the 9-2-5-er!
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A new buzzword
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Learning a soft skill
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An intresting idea
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What is Alec up to?
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Testing Applications and Suites using Perl and TAP
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Slides and example scripts
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Why I really dislike Microsoft
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I owe everyone an apology
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Yet more productivity pr0n
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OK groupies, this where you need to go
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Top Tip for managing project politics
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So what is a good University education?
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My CD's are wearing out
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Keeping a log book
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I have Subversion based CM Building working
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POMs crumbling
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Going back to a Filofax
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Becoming an Australian citizen
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OSS is now cheaper as well
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An easier way to calculate C source dependencies
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Open Source for Non-Geeks
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How to get the most value for your consulting dollar
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A Girl's Guide to Project Management
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You have to pay the piper sometime
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Pop Culture is not the same everywhere despite US TV shows
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Having GTD Next Action block
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The KISS principle, NOT!
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Sun's view of the OSS business model
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Outsourcing for Success
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The Business IT disconnect...
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So what use are metrics from bad processes
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So how can I pay for process improvement?
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What is Process?
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The myth of the reproducible build
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The dangers of scientific ignorance
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No support for Building from Subversion
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Xen and the art of world domination -- yet more about Novell and Microsoft
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The Novell deal again "A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE | Linux Journal"
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Process Documentation, a simple approach
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In need of a decent calendar
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A great Web Application
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Some seeds flourish
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Did Novell made a deal with the devil?
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A normal Sunday
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Holy Cow! Novell and Microsoft
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Subversion based software building
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Nasty Obsession
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Presenter training for OSDC
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So how do I know what my process requirements are?
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What is a "Lightweight Ticket Process" ?
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Looks like some exciting things coming from Subversion
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Quick wins in the Software development process pool
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Useful Software Metrics
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GMail hack
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The film An Inconvenient Truth
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Windows Explorer 'Open Bash Here'
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Trite Platitudes that actually say something
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SW Development process links
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Eclipse Process Framework (EPF)
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Configuration Management Meta links
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Things that annoy me about Linux on my laptop
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Lessons from wotif.com
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ThinkingLinux 06 Conference, Melbourne
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Mozilla Lightning 0.3 is out
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Exciting times
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Should one tool fit all?
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Live in general intruded
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Back from the OSDClub meeting
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What does Alec use for his personal CM system?
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Learning Web development
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So what is Software Configuration Management anyway?
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Off to a conference
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Melbourne XP Enthusiasts Group (MXPEG)
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Do I want one?
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Using Web API's
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Configuration Management of Databases
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Blogging for the business
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Nick Ing-Simmons passed away
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I've been mentioned in the Blogsphere
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A useful Build setup scripts
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Bah! Humbug
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My New Book
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Why would you do that?
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J2EE is a big beast!
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Why IDE's really suck
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XML Editors
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Top Tip for Dimensions Build 8
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Dark Humour
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Using Personal configuration management
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Looking over your MP's shoulder
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Thoughts about Require Freedom
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Mid Week notes
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