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Creating Passionate Users: Getting/Staying Organized: my Moleskine PDA

Creating Passionate Users: Getting/Staying Organized: my Moleskine PDA: "Organization comes unnaturally to me. I've experimented with almost everything, both electronic (Palm Pilot, various software apps), and plain old paper. So far, the one that's helped me the most is my low-tech, high-use Moleskine PDA. Supplies include a pen, a notebook, post-it tabs, and some (optional) 3 x 5 cards."

Two Screens Are Better Than One

Two Screens Are Better Than One: "The researchers conducted user studies that proved the effectiveness of adding a second or even third monitor to your workstation, creating a wide-screen effect. In addition, they found out how the operating system needs to change to accommodate a larger screen area. "

Getting MarkDown and SmartyPants working with EditPad Pro - Joel on Software

Getting MarkDown and SmartyPants working with EditPad Pro - Joel on Software: "MarkDown is a simple processor that converts text to HTML. For example, it converts *text surrounded by asterisks* to italics.
SmartyPants replaces 'straight quotes' with “curly quotes” and makes a few other typographic improvements.
EditPad Pro is a very respectable text editor for Windows. It’s fast and contains scrillions of useful features. It’s not the fanciest thing in the world, but if you’re still using Notepad for the occasional bits of text, it’s a fine drop-in replacement.
Here’s what it takes to get them all working together on a typical Windows setup:"

The Phone Screen - Joel on Software

The Phone Screen - Joel on Software: "The bottom line in my interviewing technique is that smart people can generally tell if they’re talking to other smart people by having a conversation with them on a difficult or highly technical subject, and the interview question is really just a pretext to have a conversation on a difficult subject so that the interviewer’s judgment can form an opinion on whether this is a smart person or not."

The infinite music collection - Joel on Software

The infinite music collection - Joel on Software: "But laptops have lousy speakers, and I had been looking for a way to pump the music from the computer into other rooms of the house, so last January I finally got a Sonos system, which is probably the coolest piece of technology I've ever bought. Ever."

Using source control tools on huge projects - Joel on Software

Using source control tools on huge projects - Joel on Software: "When you're working with source control on a huge team, the best way to organize things is to create branches and sub-branches that correspond to your individual feature teams, down to a high level of granularity. If your tools support it, you can even have private branches for every developer. So they can check in as often as they want, only merging up when they feel that their code is stable. Your QA department owns the 'junction points' above each merge. That is, as soon as a developer merges their private branch with their team branch, QA gets to look at it and they only merge it up if it meets their quality bar."

» Vista-powered desktops, notebooks now on Dell site | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com

» Vista-powered desktops, notebooks now on Dell site IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband ZDNet.com: "What you are seeing up there is a grab of Dell letting you know they are now selling Vista-enabled PCs and notebooks. Final preparations are being made to formally activate the order process."