I'm developing an executive dashboard, and I haven't been satisfied
 with the business graphics that are widely available
 (e.g. gauges, dials, stoplights). I decided to make a "Zen" version
 of a KPI status indicator, using as little color as possible,
 and incorporating E.T's innovative "Spark Line" metaphor for display
 of trends. The graphic below shows the proposed KPI display across
 the top of a browser screen with a descriptive example in the middle.
 Any feedback would be wonderful!

 Comments: Because of complex KPI names (e.g. This Week versus Last Week
 Sales (All Divisions), KPIs were labeled with Roman numerals.
 Balloon help could display the KPI name when the cursor brushes the
 KPI indicator.

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Mozex is an extension which allows the user to use external programs for these actions:

• view page source
• edit content of textareas (possibly utilizing a spell-checker in the text editor)
• handle mailto, news, telnet and FTP links
• download files

• Skolelinux is a network architecture tailored for use in schools.
• Skolelinux is designed to be easy and cheap to maintain.
• Skolelinux gives the students their own usernames, home directories and services.
• Skolelinux includes OpenOffice.org

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

   --Albert Einstei

"The quantity of meaning compressed into a small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid."

• Charles Babbage, quoted in Iverson’s Turing Award Lecture

paulgraham.com/power.html

The first person to write about these issues, as far as I know, was Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. He wrote that programmers seemed to generate about the same amount of code per day regardless of the language. When I first read this in my early twenties, it was a big surprise to me and seemed to have huge implications. It meant that (a) the only way to get software written faster was to use a more succinct language, and (b) someone who took the trouble to do this could leave competitors who didn’t in the dust.

Brooks’ hypothesis, if it’s true, seems to be at the very heart of hacking. In the years since, I’ve paid close attention to any evidence I could get on the question, from formal studies to anecdotes about individual projects. I have seen nothing to contradict him.

 I assume this popped up on everyone else's RSS aggregator as well, but...
  From Darrell Norton's blog [1] and Artima developer forum [2]: the
  current issue of CIO magazine is all about agility:
  http://www.cio.com/archive/081504/index.html

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• Both ssh or telnet into the same (remote) Unix machine and account.
• One enters screen, then starts vim, then the other enters screen -x.
• ctrl-d to exit screen)

Linux Gazette article about screen

How can software development productivity be increased? Through the same approaches used in operations: a focus on customer value, a short, effective supply chain, healthy discipline, and innovation. Mary will discuss techniques that businesses have used for decades to jump-start an increase productivity, and show how they can be used to increase software development productivity. pdf