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Engineering Management
Managing engineers at Facebook (2005-2009).
culture  development  engineering  facebook  management 
january 2011 by mcroydon
godber/crunch.io-dashboard - GitHub
"The Crunch.io Dashboard allows users to launch scientific computing clusters in EC2 with ease."
scientific  computing  ec2  amazon  management  dashboard 
january 2011 by mcroydon
cobot - managing coworking spaces
Coworking space management software. It seems like a pretty tiny niche to me, but looks well done.
app  application  business  collaboration  idea  management  software  sharing  service  resource  projectmanagement  office  tools  trends  web  webapp  tool  space  coworking 
september 2010 by mcroydon
MindNode
A mind mapping app for OSX. A bunch of ordered lists fits my brain pretty well though.
app  application  apple  applications  apps  brainstorming  mac  leopard  freeware  gtd  creativity  free  collaboration  macosx  management  map  osx  mind  mapping  productivity  work  visualization  tool  tools  software 
may 2010 by mcroydon
nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model
I really like the ability to push out hotfixes that this allows, though I'd probably squash master and develop to be the same branch.
agile  article  branch  branches  branching  deploy  deployment  git  environment  distributed  dvcs  development  dev  merge  model  programming  reference  scm  vcs  tutorial  tips  subversion  strategy  sourcecontrol  management  software  version-control  versioning  workflow  versioncontrol 
march 2010 by mcroydon
Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero
Yeah, I've been a hero and still am on occasion. I'm trying hard not to be though, which should count for something.
programming  software  blog  work  management  productivity  blogs  jobs  career  lifehacks  projectmanagement  employment  leadership  life  hero  alexpayne 
january 2010 by mcroydon
How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them?"
programming  business  toread  howto  dev  tech  work  article  management  startup  collaboration  entrepreneurship  jobs  job  interview  career  process  hiring  essay  developers  programmers  good  hr  programmer  cv  interviewing  interviews  hire  jobsearch  best 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Extreme Agility at Facebook | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
"Another aspect of the Facebook engineering team is how large the ratio of active user to developer is. Currently it stands at 1.1 million users per developer."
programming  development  howto  scalability  architecture  scaling  management  engineering  memcached  facebook  process  agile  acm  hive  scribe  oopsla  niho  cacm 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Nokia in Trouble? How Fast Can a Mobile Device Giant React? | MEOW! Blog
I believe that Nokia are already well ahead of this timeline but it's an interesting look at the potential challenges in front of them.
mobile  development  business  nokia  apple  blog  technology  iphone  management  analysis  culture  future  strategy  ux  economics  market  industry  mobility 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Culture
There's nothing in here that should be blindly applied elsewhere but this is a fascinating and enlightening look at the Netflix culture.
business  toread  work  management  startup  presentation  productivity  ideas  inspiration  culture  slides  jobs  entrepreneurship  advice  presentations  hiring  career  netflix  corporate  salary  company  leadership  slideshow  hr  values  corporateculture  policy  slideshare  employee  talent 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Charu Aggarwal
Some pretty hefty thoughts on data mining and ML stuffs.
data  database  research  books  algorithms  management  db  datamining  academic  ibm  papers  mining  people  lists  data-mining  data_mining  privacy 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Lessons Learned: The Steve Jobs method
Figuring out what your users actually want and getting it right more often than not is one way to make something amazing.
design  development  apple  business  toread  management  internet  startup  marketing  innovation  entrepreneurship  startups  strategy  entrepreneur  pixar  product  life  lean  success  stevejobs  ping.fm 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Freight Fleet Management - Homepage
Another open source flee tracking/management app.
opensource  management  open  source  fleet 
july 2009 by mcroydon
agilito - Google Code
A django data-based agile project app. Has potential (via Travis).
python  software  django  development  tools  free  management  app  tool  tracking  project  agile  projectmanagement  planning  scrum  xp  tracker 
june 2009 by mcroydon
Object Management Group
"OMG™ is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium."
programming  design  software  development  reference  business  code  technology  computer  xml  opensource  tech  architecture  standards  management  community  patterns  standard  it  methodology  modeling  corba  omg  uml  oop  mda  softwareengineering  object  bpm 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Kelly's 14 Rules | Lockheed Martin
While the rules apply to building experimental aircraft, the spirit can be applied anywhere.
design  business  management  engineering  innovation  project-management  projectmanagement  skunkworks  lockheed  labs  best_practices  rules 
february 2009 by mcroydon
MySQL :: Using the New MySQL Query Profiler
Maybe I've been using PostgreSQL too long, but I find EXPLAIN ANALYZE much easier than all of this. I guess this is handy if you're creating a whole bunch of temp tables or helping spot insanely inefficient queries.
programming  database  tools  scalability  management  performance  mysql  databases  optimization  sql  test  debugging  db  profiler  profile  query  debug 
october 2008 by mcroydon
Eugene F. Kranz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While I don't have delusions of grandeur, I do feel like I'm from the Gene Kranz school of management.
engineering  nasa  management 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Eucalyptus
Roll your own in-house EC2. Nice! It's good to see ROCKS in use still.
amazon  aws  cloud  cluster  clustering  clusters  computing  ec2  firewall  grid  hosting  linux  management  open  open-source  programming  scalability  software  sysadmin  to-read  trend  xen  virtualization 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Handling Long-Running Tasks in Rails
Nice presentation. Rails-specific but lots of good thoughts are in here.
presentation  rails  ruby  queue  task  management  job  jobs 
may 2008 by mcroydon
Eight Tips on How to Manage Feature Creep | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design Blog
Feature creep isn't all bad -- some of our neater things were born from feature creep. It can be a drag though.
business  development  management  project-management  projects  software 
february 2008 by mcroydon
What Great Managers Do
First article in awhile that I've thought about paying the archive fee for.
management 
february 2008 by mcroydon
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