Vonage - The Broadband Phone Company

Vonage - The Broadband Phone Company

Skype Journal: Skype's Product Development Roadmap Through February 2006

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Skype Journal begged Skype to share their near term product roadmap with independent developers. Recently they've started to do just that, in private forums for their beta developers, at meetings of their developers' advisory board, and last night at their "Skype Night" for developers meeting at VON Boston. Normal caveats: everything is subject to change, we don't know what the new feature names really mean, and this all comes out for Windows first.

Here is the chart as projected for the audience.

QPR Software - Balanced Scorecard and Business Process Management software

QPR Software - Balanced Scorecard and Business Process Management software

QPR ScoreCard is collaboratively used to plan, implement, communicate and commit people on organizational strategies and objectives.

QPR ProcessGuide is collaboratively used to plan, implement, communicate and commit people on business process improvement.

Trachtenberg Multiplication

Trachtenberg Multiplication

1. always place one zero in front of the first multiplier for each digit of the second multiplier.

2. apply the rule acording to the second multiplier, working through the digits of the first multiplier from right to left

The rule will call for doubling or taking half. Taking half of even numbers presents no problem. Uneven numbers ("odd" numbers) are divided as: half of 1 is 0, half of 3 is 1, half of 5 is 2, half of 7 is 3, half of 9 is 4.
For odd numbers the rule will sometimes call for a special procedure.

Multiply by	Rule
11	Add the neighbor
12	Double, add the neighbor
6	Add half the neighbor plus 5 if number is odd
7	Double, add half the neighbor, add 5 if number is odd
5	Take half of the neighbor, add 5 if the number is odd
9	1. Last digit: subtract from 10    2. Middle digits: subtract from 9 and add the neighbor    3. First digit: (the leading zero) subtract 1 from the neighbor.
8	1. Last digit: subtract from 10 and double    2. Middle digits: subtract from 9 and double, add the neighbor    3. First digit: (the leading zero) subtract 2 from the neighbor.
4	1. Last digit: subtract from 10, add 5 if odd    2. Middle digits: subtract from 9, add half neighbor, +5 if odd    3. First digit: (the leading zero): half the neighbor less 1.
3	1. Last digit: subtract from 10, double, +5 if odd    2. Middle digits: subtract from 9, double, add half neighbor, +5 if odd.    3. First digit: (the leading zero) half the neighbor and subtract 2.

Philip Koether Architects

Philip Koether Architects

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brevity.org -- Links to essays in Best Software Writing I

brevity.org -- Links to essays in Best Software Writing I

Joel Spolsky - Introduction

• Ken Arnold - Style Is Substance
• Leon Bambrick - Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
• Michael Bean - The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers
• Rory Blyth - Excel as a Database
• Adam Bosworth - ICSOC04 Talk
• danah boyd - Autistic Social Software
• Raymond Chen - Why Not Just Block the Apps That Rely on Undocumented Behavior?
• Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi - Kicking the Llama
• Cory Doctorow - Save Canada's Internet from WIPO
• ea_spouse - EA: The Human Story
• Bruce Eckel - Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
• Paul Ford - Processing Processing
• Paul Graham - Great Hackers
• John Gruber - The Location Field is the New Command Line
• Gregor Hohpe - Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit
• Ron Jeffries - Passion
• Eric Johnson - C++ -- The Forgotten Trojan Horse
• Eric Lippert - How Many Microsoft Employees Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
• Michael "Rands" Lopp - What to do when you're screwed
• Larry Osterman - Larry's Rules of Software Engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Doesn't
• Mary Poppendieck - Team Compensation (pdf)
• Rick Schaut - Mac Word 6.0
• Clay Shirky - A Group is its Own Worst Enemy
• Clay Shirky - Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
• Eric Sink - Closing the Gap Part 1, Part 2
• Eric Sink - Hazards of Hiring
• Aaron Swartz - PowerPoint Remix
• why the lucky stiff - A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)

Yodlee

Enabling Financial Services Providers to Build More Satistying and Profitable Customer Relationship

Personal Finance & Bill Pay

• OnCenter - a powerful suite of personal finance applications, including portfolio manager, alerts, bill reminders, expense tracker, net worth view, and more
• Funds Transfer - enables real-time money movement between any two financial accounts
• BillDirect - the only bill pay to offer real-time payments and full bill presentment
• CardDirect - the only bill pay to enable card payments and earn FSPs interchange revenue
• Direct Payments SDK - the easiest way to “card-enable” existing bill pay applications to earn revenue for every payment

Wealth Management

• AdvisorView - alerts financial advisors to specific opportunities (e.g., 401k Rollovers) to bring additional assets under management and offer more holistic client advice.

Risk Management

• Instant Account Verification - dramatically reduces the risks and costs of online transactions by verifying account ownership and available funds in real-time

Market Research

• InsideView - enables market research firms to automate or supplement current research methods to lower costs, decrease panelist attrition, and enhance data insights on consumer behavior

Jim Loy's Mathematics Page

Jim Loy's Mathematics Page

 "He must be a 'practical' man who can see no poetry in mathematics." - W. F. White.

• Algebra
• Geometry
• Calculus and Pre-Calculus
• Arithmetic, Roman Numerals ...
• Calendars
• Number Theory
• Fractals & Chaos
• Other Topics

• Book Reviews
• Other Links

meebo.com - AIM,ICQ, MSN, Y!

meebo.com : Real cool

 

GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test

Link

Bindows

With Bindows™ you can develop fully functional desktop applications in a web page, without any plugins.

Whether you prefer to strictly follow OOP best practices or use the latest RAD flavour of the month, Bindows™ provides you with the tools for developing efficient and flexible Rich Internet Applications.

The Bindows™ Framework provides you with:

• A class based, Object Oriented API
• A complete windowing system with a wide array of supported widgets including menus, forms, grids, sliders, gauges and more.
• The leading toolkit for developing zero-footprint SOA client-side applications.
• Native XML, SOAP and XML-RPC support
• Single user to enterprise level support.

Have both Rich & Thin

Bindows break the paradigm where you need to choose between rich (interface) and thin (client). Bindows applications can be as rich as any modern desktop application and extremely thin (and of course zero-footprint). Bindows applications are:

• Rich, customizable, with desktop-like GUI components
• Run in standard browsers without any installation (zero-footprint)
• No proprietary clients, runtime engines, or plug-ins

5 Quotes From Successful Businessmen

AskMen.com - Business quotes

 1. "We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- Lee Iacocca, (1924 - )
CEO, Chrysler Corporation, 1978 - 1992

 2. "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."
- Henry Ford, (1863 - 1947)
Founder of the Ford Motor Co., 1903 - 1945

 3. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
Chairman and CEO of Fortune 500 Company Berkshire Hathaway, 1977 - present

 4. "An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people."
- Jack Welch, (1935 - )
CEO, General Electric, 1981 - 2001

 5. "Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success."
- Michael D. Eisner, (1942 - )
Chairman & CEO of The Disney Corporation, 1984- present

Why We Hate HR

link @ FastCompany

In a knowledge economy, companies with the best talent win. And finding, nurturing, and developing that talent should be one of the most important tasks in a corporation. So why does human resources do such a bad job -- and how can we fix it?

Use cell phone to make calls via Skype

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Top 10 Ajax Applications

A Venture Forth » Blog Archive » Top 10 Ajax Applications

1. Kiko. A general purpose online calendar. Elegant interface and design. API coming soon.

2. Backbase’s RSS Reader. Only a demo, so you can’t add your own feeds. Still, very nice.

3. Backpack. To do list organizer and simple project management application. Includes email and mobile reminders.

4. Writely. Online word processor. A bit rough around the edges (you can’t save in MSF T Word format, for example) but still feels like a real application. Update: per Sam Schillace @ Writely, you can export in Word format (ed: sorry for missing this). Also, API and blog publishing features coming soon.

5. Amazon Zuggest. Francis Shanahan’s version of Google Suggest–but for Amazon.

6. TimeTracker. Personal time management tool.

7. Del.icio.us Director. Rich UI for managing your del.icio.us links.

8. Backbase’s Information Portal. A highly interactive aggregation page.

9. Protopage. Another twist on an information portal.

10. Periodic Table of the Elements. The next must-have for high school chemistry students?

Find-A-Human -- IVR Phone Shortcuts

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Chase web 800-CHASE24 Hit five, pause, then hit one, four, star, zero

Astoria Federal Savings web 800-ASTORIA When you hear the womans voice press zero. Will transfer right away to a human.
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AutoCAD Tests

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• AutoCAD 2000 test - test measures ability to design in two dimensions using AutoCAD 2000, by brainbench
• AutoCAD test - sample part given by HH Architects to test for AutoCAD skills
• AutoTest new - performs evaluations of potential hires, by Academix (reviews)
• CFAex -  user skills assessment system by CFA
• ProgressPrint - offers an online AutoCAD skills assessment test, which consists of multiple exams and immediate reporting of results, broken down by category. Use the tool for testing potential employees to choose the best candidates and for testing current employees to determine training needs.
• XLQuest - pool of over 1300 multiple choice questions covering both AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop skills

Hiring a CAD Operator: How to Evaluate Applicants

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With every new AutoCAD release, the gap between the CAD operator and the department manager widens. If the manager is not an AutoCAD user, it becomes increasingly difficult to evaluate a CAD operators abilities. When faced with the task of hiring a new CAD operator, the manager gets little help from others in the company. How does a CAD manager with limited AutoCAD experience evaluate an AutoCAD operator?

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

 The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDA's are to expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then easily transfer the notes to your PDA, spreadsheet, or planer.

The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. It is hard to describe just how incredibility useful the PocketMod is. It's best that your just dive in and creating one.

Writely - The Web Word Processor

Writely - Home

 

gotoAndLearn.com

gotoAndLearn.com

 

Blogger with Categories

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