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About management consulting
I just read this post by Joel Spolsky, it’s so funny. But apart from that, I think it’s completely true: go to a client, create some ratio that shows the client is doing really bad, get the client to...
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Templates and pages
Wisdump raises a very good point in their post Building systems that let me design every page: most websites today use templates and as a result most of the pages in the site look very much the same....
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Backing up MySQL databases
We all know how important it is to backup our servers and personal computers… but we all avoid doing it!! We just went through a major crisis in our servers and for some hours we thought we had lost...
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Startups want to beat Google search
A very interesting article in the New York Times about startups in Silicon Valley trying to grab a piece of the search market, and an even better post in Read/Write Web categorizing the different...
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Rotating ads in WordPress
Over the last few days I have been looking for some plugin that allows me to show ads in a WordPress blog (the installed version, not WordPress.com, which does not allow advertising). I found a post in...
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ViewVC, a great tool for repository browsing
A few days ago I installed ViewVC in one of the servers we work on, and we are very happy with it. I was looking for something to browse our CVS repositories and after a bit of research I decided to...
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WPAds, adserver for WordPress
A few days ago I wrote about rotating ads in WordPress and as I said I had found a couple of solutions, but as it usually happens I was not completely satisfied with any of them, so I decided to code...
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DMOZ accepting submissions again?
I just read that DMOZ is accepting site submissions again, apparently they had technical difficulties that didn’t allow editors to aprove or edit sites. The truth is I don’t have very high expectations...
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WPAds, show ads in your posts
I’m getting very interesting suggestions from the first WPAds users, as for example being able to show the banners inside your posts. So here goes the new version with the plugin, with the ability to...
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Saying no
Great post by Fred Wilson (A VC), talking about keeping focus in a startup: There’s always the desire to please the customers. But knowing what you are going to do and focusing on it is so critical....
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