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There’s so much to do and so little time, so I leave you with a few links to recently discovered gems: We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work – a look at extreme - ahh - batting by Ron Jeffries? Start-Up lessons – as always excellent reading by Paul Graham observe OS X filesystem events – looks useful Signs you are a bad programmer – I plead guilty to having had some of those attributes Technorati Tags: mac, programming, startup, xp ...

Tomorrow marks the start of my third Ruby On Rails course. It’s going to be a 3 day course with a (somewhat lengthy) introduction to Ruby (and some of the joys of programming in a very dynamic language) with the rest of the time devoted to Rails. I firmly believe in hands-on training, so the amount of lecturing is minimal. And there are only 5 or 6 participants in the class. They will build an application from scratch - either something from their domain (or if they don’t have any idea) an application that I have thought out. ...

Via the Yojimbo trial: the iTunes Signature Maker. It creates an audio signature based on what you listen to in iTunes. Here’s jcf-audio signature- enjoy. Technorati Tags: iTunes, mp3, yojimbo

Then I have the person for you: Stefan is my brother-in-law and is free around June 2006. He (and my sister) are willing and able to relocate, both have excellent english skills. Stefan is the Head of Information & Media Relations at a swiss private bank and is looking for a new challenge. Als Kommunikations-Manager mit internationaler Fuhrungserfahrung suche ich eine neue Herausforderung, in der ich meine Starken und Erfahrungen unter Beweis stellen kann. Nach ebenso abwechslungs- wie lehrreichen Jahren mit Fuhrungsaufgaben in verschiedenen europaischen Landern bei internationalen Bluechips ist es nun an der Zeit, die berufliche Ersatzbank zu verlassen und den Spielverlauf aktiv mitzugestalten. Erfahrungen habe ich vor allem in den Bereichen integrierte Unternehmens- und Marketing-Kommunikation, Public Relations und Public Affairs gesammelt. Bestimmende Merkmale meiner Personlichkeit sind Loyalitat, Engagement und ausgepragte Leadership Skills. Aufgrund meines bisherigen Werdeganges und des zugehorigen mentalen Weltburgertums bin ich international umfassend vernetzt und entsprechend mobil. ...

Yes, the Intel Macs support Dual Boot Camp. And it works nicely, but requires the dual boot dance, which is time consuming. And while in Windows, there is no Mac goodness. Thanks to the good folks at Parallels this problem is getting smaller every day: Lotus Notes running on Windows XP running in the Parallels Workstation on my MacBook Pro. This just rocks! And priced at $49, Parallels Workstation is a steal. Plus the development team is really responsive. They have releases the fourth beta today, just 2 weeks after the initial release. This one should solve most of the problems people experienced. Let’s see… ...