I continue to be stunned by Google's reach. Whilst I'm not one of the 'be wary of Google having too much power' brigade I can see how incredible their power is becoming (trust is a different matter). Name me an area they aren't tapping into… This latest news is exciting for its sheer geekiness factor. It is suggested they will be making 120 terabytes of data available...
Good to see some more investment by Google in targeting climate change and other environmental initiatives.
(via TechCrunch)
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Just in case you missed the announcement last week, you can now get FeedDemon for free. Thanks Newsgator.
I've been using FeedDemon for over 3 years now and swear by it.
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TechCrunch has the details on Sun buying MySQL. The official Sun announcement is here.
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uTest claims to be a community of software testing service providers. Need some QA done on your applications? Perhaps this is part of your answer. How do I know this is going to be big? Easy, they have their own uTest Debit Card.
(via TechCrunch)
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I've been a big fan of the Virtual Hosting blog for the last 3 months or so :-) Just about every post is bookmarked in my RSS reader for further reading and reflecting on. If you aren't subscribed already, then head over here or subscribe here. Today's post on Stress Busting Tips (50 of them no less!) is great reading for you developers out there fighting a huge backlog of tasks to be...
Greg breaks the news about leaving Readify to set up the Australian arm of Solid Quality – a SQL Server consulting and training powerhouse. The news itself will be of interest to many, but I was most taken with his formula of 1 week training for every 3 weeks consulting as the ideal. I'm sure many will relate to how being separated from hands on work (eg due to constant training...
A nice list of things we should be doing all the time (not just when we sniff a change in the economic winds). Well, except perhaps point 17.
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Who have thought? An AddOn studio for WoW. Its up on CodePlex. Amazing.
(via Dan Fernandez)
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Joe Little's post about the Nokia scrum Test is interesting. His comments on keeping it simple are valid too. My only comment: Find me a company that manages to stop Project Managers disrupting the flow (his last bullet point in the second list), and you've found yourself a rare (and wonderful) environment. I suspect real world occurrences of this are scarce. Technorati Tags: Agile...