RT @pluc: I work for free, get paid to deal with email - << Je suis une machine à courriel, mais aidez votre cause un peu

Great list of skills to evaluate when recruiting tech skills for your startup: The Programmer Competency Matrix -

(i hate patents)

Ask an Angel: How Does an Angel Group Effectively Assess Startup CEOs?

Awesome post.

Beyond the Information Revolution by Peter Drucker - (a link sure helps the sharing process)

There are three levels of commenters: Unapproved, Approved and Starred. You basically have to audition for the right to comment, by leaving a smart blurb—if it's good, you'll get approved by an editor, one of our moderators, or a starred commenter, and then people can see your comment. Your comment is also approved if you sign in through Facebook Connect, since it's tied to an identity. Truly excellent commenters earn stars, which grant them moderation powers, and makes all of their comments featured (more on that below).

There are three levels of comments: Unapproved, Approved and Featured. Unapproved are only seen by moderators. Approved can be seen by everybody, but a casual reader will have to work a bit to see them. Comments that moderators think are awesome—as well as comments left by star commenters—become featured, which means they're in bold, and right up front on every post. Think of it as a super version of the karma scheme that Slashdot's used forever.

Directory of All Essays
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Rules of Productivity Presentation
How do we get more work done? It is a question that every manager and every passionate worker faces. Yet, for the most part, teams operate on gut instinct and habit. The results are less than optimal.

Over the years I've been collecting small pieces of research on various factors that actually seem to improve productivity. I've assembled eight of these experiments into a PowerPoint presentation. Feel free to use the graphs and data within to spread these practical ideas throughout your own teams.

great methodology to track trends and meta info on your startup

The Tarantula is a fuzzy spider. It crawls your rails app, fuzzing inputs and analyzing what comes back. We have pointed Tarantula at about 20 Rails applications, both commercial and open source, and have never failed to uncover flaws.

For Mac users who want a simpler way to stay organized and get things done. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that's surprisingly adept. Unlike the competition, TaskPaper's text based interface offers you paper-like simplicity and ease of use. OSX 10.4+

Windmill is a web testing framework intended for complete automation of user interface testing, with strong test debugging capabilities.

The first goal of

But after closely studying Git I'm a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it" and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with "the solution" for version control.

Biggest challenge of running a community still remains finding the right resources. 57% of the people claimed inability to get the right people to facilitate the community

But it seems to me he was saying something more — i.e., that he was able to create a business for only $12,107. The only problem is that I don’t see any sign of Truemors being a business (which I guess you could say about lots of other Web 2.0 sites t