Key stakeholders in a decision need to decide effectively and commit to their choices. To borrow a phrase from Bill Walsh, a leader who coached the 49ers to 3 Super Bowls, strong leaders need to "commit, explode, recover," which means committing to a plan of attack, executing it, and then reacting to the results.  A team crippled with indecisiveness will just cause individual efforts to flounder.

simpler alternative to rvm

handy app to manage S3 buckets

A hiring framework for assessing team members to deliver high quality UX

"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. The c

New Zappos hires get full pay for 4 week training and then offered $1,000 to quit before their first day -- strategy for hiring committed employees

Free web tool to help you opt-out of specific catalog mailings

source version control & issue for software development project management. sorta like a trac/mantis/svn mashup in Rails but pretty

"Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories. Beanstalk has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, and Lighthouse."

Collection of short posts on the inevitable urge to rewrite major applications/code bases and why it's almost always a bad idea

CostCo is less evil

Classic mistakes in managing rapid-development projects

nice if you run a whole bunch of servers with shared SSH access and you like to use key-based auth...

not sure i need these but I definitely need to do some thinking re: cable management!

As I work to upgrade a hacked-to-hell Drupal 4.5 site with 300k+ users... this is so FUNNY

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Can get a drupal module that plays nice with this platform for blast emailng; keeping in reserve in case CiviMail is too bothersome in the short term

Designed for salesforce.com users, but looks potentially useful for anyone planning a CRM rollout.

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