links for 2010-01-22

• net toolkit::net.dns
  My DNSStuff replacement
  (tags: dns tools net network networking internet)

links for 2009-12-21

• Charlie Gentle – Web Designer & Developer – Nottingham, UK
  (tags: inspiration ajax javascript jquery web design css webdesign portfolio folio photography website horizontal)

links for 2009-12-19

• 24 Clever Website Designs That Combine jQuery and Illustration | Webdesigner Depot
  (tags: jquery webdesign inspiration)
• The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009 | Design Reviver
  (tags: design webdesign tutorials resources)
• The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  (tags: photoshop typography tutorials design webdesign web)
• 50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations @ SmashingApps
  (tags: design webdesign web webdev css tutorials reference)
• Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources – Smashing Magazine
  (tags: web design css webdesign reference resources tutorials webdev html tips xhtml website jquery tutorial lists html5 li menu navigation)

links for 2009-12-09

• 15 Handpicked Fresh and Useful jQuery Tutorials
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links for 2009-12-08

• Preloaders.net | Free AJAX animated loading gif's | 3 dimensional (3D)
  (tags: throbber design web2.0 css webdesign ajax javascript webdev free online icons generator images preloader animation loading tool)

links for 2009-11-27

• The Blueprints, reference image database, with more than 37000 blueprints, templates, 3/4/5-views and drawings
  (tags: design blueprints 3d model illustration blueprint image drawing images architecture reference resources cool database graphics)

links for 2009-11-17

• MetaLab: We make interfaces
  (tags: inspiration webdesign css design interface iphone designer ux webdev portfolio agency ajax)
• NASA PlanetQuest Historic Interactive Timeline
  (tags: astronomy timeline nasa planets universe library physics education learning science space reference resources history interactive)

links for 2009-11-10

• 18 Great Shopping Carts to Power Your Online Store
  Are you ready to start selling? Sean lists 18 great shopping cart choices to help you get your store online right away.
  (tags: ecommerce e-commerce design webdesign inspiration tools resources software webdev free online shopping web freeware store cart cms shop)

links for 2009-10-28

• 55 Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers
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links for 2009-10-27

• 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom
  (tags: education web2.0 learning facebook e-learning school)

links for 2009-10-05

• 101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1 | 1stwebdesigner – Love In Design
  (tags: web design css webdesign inspiration template themes freebies templates free html development programming resources)

links for 2009-09-30

• 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter
  (tags: podcasts educational interesting learning media resources technology education)

links for 2009-07-26

• MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
  (tags: ajax webdesign web web2.0 css dhtml)

Continuous Development Mode

This blog post couldn’t make its point clearer.(http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas.html)

It’s a process whereby all code that is written for an application is immediately deployed into production. The result is a dramatic lowering of cycle time and freeing up of individual initiative. It has enabled companies I’ve worked with to deploy new code to production as often as fifty times every day.

Continuous deployment is controversial. Most people, when they first hear about continuous deployment, think I’m advocating low-quality code or an undisciplined cowboy-coding development process. On the contrary, I believe that continuous deployment requires tremendous discipline and can greatly enhance software quality, by applying a rigorous set of standards to every change to prevent regressions, outages, or harm to key business metrics. (This criticism is a variation of the “time, quality, money – pick two” fallacy)

If I may add, open source has been this way for many many years now.

Revolution OS

I watched this documentary before. Posting it here to give it some more mileage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409

Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.