- Want to build great software? Get your culture right first.
"This is going to sound like such a lame “management guru” thing to say, but it’s true: the cultural fit of the people you hire is more important than their past experience or absolute skill level. I’ve seen this time and time again. If I have a choice between hiring someone who is highly skilled in their work but doesn’t display humility and a genuine drive to learn more, and someone who knows enough to know that there is much to learn and they’re hungry to get there, I’ll choose the latter every time." (management recruitment automattic dopost )
- Victory! Google Surrenders in the Nymwars | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Proponents of pseudonymity scored a major victory today, when Google executive Vic Gundotra revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that social networking service Google+ will begin supporting pseudonyms and other types of identity." (google google_plus identity dopost )
- Google+ to Support Pseudonyms
"Google+ will soon support pseudonyms and other forms of identity, says a Google executive." (google identity google_plus dopost )
- Groupon Seeks Offering Near $12 Billion Valuation – NYTimes.com
"Groupon, the daily deal site, is seeking to sell shares in an offering that would value the company at close to $12 billion, several people with knowledge of the situation said on Wednesday. Such a valuation, which is being weighed as the company prepares for an investor road show next week to pitch its initial public offering, would be a steep comedown from earlier expectations that an I.P.O. of the Internet darling could value the company as much as $25 billion to $30 billion." (groupon ipo dopost valuation )
- Facebook HTML5 Resource Center – Facebook developers
(html5 facebook advice )
- Daily Mail to pay Lady Moore ‘substantial’ damages over diary story | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Sir Roger Moore's wife accepts payout for paper's false claims about her past relationships" (daily_mail legal roger_moore )
- Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup – Forbes
"What Houston does is Dropbox, the digital storage service that has surged to 50 million users, with another joining every second. Jobs presciently saw this sapling as a strategic asset for Apple. Houston cut Jobs’ pitch short: He was determined to build a big company, he said, and wasn’t selling, no matter the status of the bidder (Houston considered Jobs his hero) or the prospects of a nine-digit price (he and Ferdowsi drove to the meeting in a Zipcar Prius)." (dropbox apple acquisition steve_jobs dopost )
- Cybersecurity breakthrough keeps sensitive data confined in physical space | ScienceBlog.com
"…a team of Virginia Tech researchers has created software to remotely put smart phones under lockdown. The phones are given permission to access sensitive data while in a particular room, but when the devices leave the room, the data is completely wiped." (geolocation security mobiles dopost )
- testkitchen – Testing framework for Pentaho PDI/Kettle – Google Project Hosting
"A testing framework combining dbdeploy, dbunit, and Pentaho PDI so you can manage changes to the DB schema and transformations and ensure they still produce the expected output. You can create mock data that will be loaded into your staging database, and then create "golden data" to represent your expected outcomes. After a transformation is ran you can compare to two to decide if the test passes or fails." (kettle testing automation dontpost )
- RFC: Functional Test Suite for Kettle
(kettle testing automation dontpost )
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