Sat, 26 Apr 2008
37signals are Ricardo Semler fans...
On their blog Signal vs Noise, 37signals has a series of articles covering the
work of Ricardo
Semler, a business lecturer at MIT.
I came to the party late with the most recent one on how
to work smarter from an employers and leaders perspective.
The three
previous
articles
(linked in reverse chronological order) cover everything from corporate
structures to so called "lean" companies.
[2008/04/26 / social / business permanent link]
Some helpful addons for Apache and PHP...
Jdub
points out a couple of packages which I'm off to install right now.
I've always redirected to a "one true" FQDN on my websites by using an extra
virtualhost container and a redirect rule. libapache2-redirtoservname to the
rescue!
I don't use as much PHP as a I used to but I'm sure that what little is on
there will find php5-xcache gives it a boost.
[2008/04/26 / tech / software permanent link]
Mon, 14 Apr 2008
Forking for fun(pidgin) and profit!
So we use Jabber a lot at work for internal communication. I've always used
Gaim^WPidgin but with the upgrades flowing through from Ubuntu Hardy I came
across what I thought was a bug
to do with size of (and ability to resize) the text entry window. But no, it's a "feature"!
The Pidgin ticket has comment after comment asking for this feature to be made
optional, or even better for the feature's parameters ("default size" and
"maximum size") to be configurable in the configuration file if not the GUI
interface. I for one would love to set and forget them at "4 lines" and "50%".
The developers of Pidgin don't seem to waver from their original decision, so
welcome to the latest FOSS fork: Funpidgin!
They have a .deb available but I can't be bothered switching just yet. Might
wait and see how this pans out and what path the Ubuntu package maintainer
takes with this issue.
