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Best April Fools Sites

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 1, 2008

Hiring: Ruby on Rails Dark Lord of the Sith World of Warcraft: Bard Class

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Speeding Up Web Browsing

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 20, 2008

FasterFox and Google Web Accelerator. Combine that with CustomizeGoogle and it’s a whole different interwebs.

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Functionality, Code, and Productivity

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 15, 2008

From Agile Software Development’s “Micromanagement in Agile/Scrum”: The sad or not so sad truth is that agile methods are not aimed at maximizing the development team productivity. It is one of the welcome side effects that can happen, but that is not the grand goal. One can even say that the agile doesn’t care about [...]

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Fascinating Podcasts: “US History from Civil War to the Present” and “Apologetics & Outreach”

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 9, 2008

I’ve been listening to a lot of collegiate and graduate courses on podcast. In particular, I’ve been perusing the Berkley Podcasts, and they’re all pretty good for what they are. From that list, I particularly recommend History 7B: US History from Civil War to the Present by Jennifer Burns, which really does a nice job [...]

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Jeremy Pavleck on Updating Technical Skills (with Graphs!)

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 1, 2008

Check out Jeremy Pavleck’s post “Updating my skills”. It’s a sobering feet-on-the-ground reminder of the heady “CS degree” conversation going on (1, 2), and it has some quality charts a la my “Brief Reality Check on Ruby Jobs” post.

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