Mind mapping people at MashupCamp.

New book from The Godin. But, it's just a blog compilation. No need to buy it if you use RSS. But, it's good to get the even vaster non-blog channel, print media.

Crowd sourcing applied to entertainment. For those who don't understand big words, it's fucking awesome.

Kent Beck trying to figure out a good life at being a programmer instead of the usual Jolt Cola and angry life. Quite good for life-style/work balance think. Yuh!

"Users simply do no have the time to repeatedly visit multiple content and media sources to identify updates and filter-out items of interest." RSS helps address that...

Round-up of pair programming and TDD studies in an attempt to find The Magic Graph That Shows Improvement. Also, some good thinking on how pair programming maximizes each members time/effort.

This looks interesting, but long. Must read soon.

"The notion of jobs being executed according to a calendar event must change; jobs must be driven according to business events and end user needs, requiring job scheduling products to become more intelligent and integrated into business processes."

Here's what we like to see with a standard: a simple, web based editor that makes it easier to explore, play around with, and even use the standard. Otherwise, it's just a big-ass PDF.

An example of selling configuration and behavior.

Charles documents how to use JavaScript from the command line interpreter (with spidermonkey) for playing around with JavaScript.

The code for Crosscheck, the open source, browserless JavaScript unit testing framework from The Frontside.

In summary: paying for a middle-class life for your kid(s) is expensive. Good luck keeping your job. Start your engines!

"BMC AppSight is validated for integration with the IBM Rational Software Development Platform."