Monthly Archives: December 2007

Sweet, Sweet Link Lovin’ from Atlassian

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 19, 2007

Andy Tinkham just pointed out on #ruby.mn (freenode) that Atlassian’s newsletter gave me some sweet link lovin’. Even dropped my name! w00t! Brian got us onto Atlassian’s radar with his post on Postgres. I got them out of lurking with “Someone at Atlassian Deserves a Raise”.

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I’m Losing in the Polls! (Googleganger, cntd.)

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 19, 2007

I’m officially becoming less popular on the internet. That dude who plays that game and happens to share my name (you’re not getting keywords out of me today, Google!) has websites that have knocked me down from 3rd and 4th hit to 5th (this blog) and 13th (my LinkedIn profile). I guess I’m a has-been [...]

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Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 18, 2007

Sierra Bravo‘s F1 Overnight Website Challenge is a cute little idea: 24 hours of non-stop coding for the good of nonprofits. Should be fun. Groovy.MN has failed to pull a team together, so it was a pretty easy decision to sign on with Ruby.MN-ists. Although, the “Pixel-Stained Technopeasants” or “The Mighty Polymorphin Power Rangers” would [...]

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Interesting Information: MPR’s Funding Model

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 18, 2007

From MPR: Company Information: How Minnesota Public Radio Is Funded: It’s expensive and complex to operate three services broadcast in the Twin Cities and throughout the region via a network of radio stations. We rely on a number of sources of income to do this. The largest source, 61%, comes from listeners who make financial [...]

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Save “In the Loop”!

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 18, 2007

I’ve been a fan of “In the Loop” for a long while. I started out as a passing fan, curious about how MPR this new experiment. After hearing the first story slam, I started listening on-again-off-again to the podcast (also here for you weird non-iTunes people). It wasn’t until I started going to the live [...]

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