37signals: Average environments beget average work. Read the P.S. first. ¶
YouTube: Axel Springer stellt Arbeitsplatzsysteme auf Apple um. 12000 Macs. They’ll be Apple’s largest corporate customer in Europe, and second largest worldwide. ¶
Giles Bowkett: Female Programmers: Read This Book. “Sarah was nominated for the Pulitzer a couple years ago. I have a popular programming blog.” ¶
Apple: Snow Leopard. No new features for the next version of OS X. Only better, smaller, and faster. ¶
Rethink: Prompt Payment and Service. “Prompt payment breeds amazing service from independent contractors.” ¶
Daring Fireball Linked List: A Cruel and Shallow Money Trench, a Long Plastic Hallway Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free, and Good Men Die Like Dogs. “The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t theirs, over a network that isn’t theirs, because, well, just because.” ¶
Ongoing: Look Sideways. That’s what I’m doing. ¶
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Stick out your tongue. Sad. But true. ¶
37signals: Hire family people. We’re hiring family people too. Email me at thijs@fngtps.com if you’re interested. ¶
37signals: Urgency is poisonous. Can’t agree more. We don’t have a four-day week, but we almost never do overtime. It’s the only way to consistently deliver high quality work. Be sure to read this comment by Jason Fried too. ¶
Yahoo! Finance: Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo. They’re gonna rewrite Flickr in ASP.NET? ¶
Ask 37signals: How is Campfire different than a meeting? “Typing forces people to be more economical in what they communicate. There’s a lot less extraneous chatter in a Campfire chat than there is in a typical meeting.” That’s why we love it. ¶
Stuck in the middle: Psychopaths in the software industry. “Normal people may be more in sheer numbers, but in terms of real power the psychopaths have the upper hand. Heck, most normal people don’t even know that these people exist, or what the problem is. They are so utterly duped and manipulated that they don’t know they are in a prison.” ¶
Ask 37signals: Installable software? The next time a client asks me whether or not we should also have a version that customers can install on their site, I’ll point them to this. ¶
Ongoing: Bad Ruby “Look, dammit, Ruby isn’t an insurgency or a conspiracy or a party, it’s a profession and a vocation and we’re getting getting paid for doing it. So why the flaming hell are we meeting on weekends like Trekkies or scrapbookers?” That’s why our morning coffee meetings are always on weekdays and why I almost never attend conferences. ¶
Riding Rails: Thanks! We’re very proud to have both Norbert and Manfred mentioned here. ¶
37signals: Secrets to Amazon’s success. Good advice. ¶
Mike Lee: Supply and Demand. The one and only reason for the price drop. ¶
Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog: Free Advice for the Litigious… Seems like it’s time to buy some Sun hardware. ¶
Dive into Mark: Outrageous. “By then, IBM will have filed tens of thousands more. It’s an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable. I’m ashamed to have been a part of it.” It’s not incurable. All madness can be stopped. ¶
A List Apart: Educate Your Stakeholders!. “Although such people may be very well meaning, they are often blissfully unaware of the factors that should and do influence decision making on the web.” ¶
Microsoft is dead. Old news. ¶
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