--- title: links for 2007-01-30 date: 2007-01-30T05:33:20Z modified: 2007-01-30T05:33:20Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/29/links-for-2007-01-30/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1358 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-01-30T05:33:20Z tags: - Links --- - [Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Coming Soon: Salesforce.com with Amazon S3 Storage](http://www.thewhir.com/blogs/isabel-wang/index.cfm/2007/1/25/Salesforce-with-Amazon-S3) i’m for it; be an interesting combination, and a nice extension of S3 (tags: [S3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/S3) [Amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Amazon) [Salesforce.com](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Salesforce.com)) - [A Happy Ending For That EBay Bears Lady – Deadspin](http://deadspin.com/sports/super-bowl/a-happy-ending-for-that-ebay-bears-lady-232055.php) interesting guerilla marketing from Axe to get the eBay girl i linked to last week to Miami for the Super Bowl – they’ll definitely get some (sort of)free and favorable press out of it (tags: [eBay](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/eBay) [marketing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/marketing) [Axe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Axe) [SuperBowl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SuperBowl)) - [BSBlog » Blog Archive » VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise](http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2007-01-26/vcs-migration-headaches/) “I have been helping preed bring Mozilla into the world of distributed version control systems. It sucks.” – so i keep hearing (tags: [via:mark](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:mark) [DSCM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DSCM) [DVCS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DVCS) [Bazaar](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Bazaar) [Mercurial](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mercurial)) - [Bill de hÓra: 3 pillars](http://www.dehora.net/journal/2007/01/3_pillars.html) “The version control system is a first order effect on software, along with two others – the build system and the bugtracker. Those choices impact absolutely everything else.” – talk to folks running projects and you’ll hear this frequently (tags: [DSCM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DSCM) [DVCS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DVCS) [Mercurial](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mercurial) [dehóra](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dehóra)) - [Top 10 Girl Geeks](http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/top-10-girl-geeks-13100) no disrespect to the women on this list (particularly Máirín, whose contributions to GNOME i’m a fan of), but how is Hanna Wallach not on this list? (tags: [Wallach](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Wallach) [gender](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gender) [top10](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/top10) [girl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/girl) [geeks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/geeks) [Duffy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Duffy)) - [ongoing · Integrated Systems](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/28/Integrated-Systems) “He’s got a point. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to look to hardware providers to do this kind of corner-case integration. After all, that’s how Apple makes things Just Work, by controlling the hardware.” – have been after Lenovo on this for a w (tags: [Lenovo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Lenovo) [hardware](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hardware) [Linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Linux) [desktop](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/desktop) [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu)) - [Alrond | The performance test of 6 leading frameworks](http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/jan/25/performance-test-of-6-leading-frameworks/) more interesting performance metrics with respect to web frameworks; wonder why the Zend framework wasn’t included (tags: [DJango](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DJango) [rubyonrails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rubyonrails) [metrics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/metrics) [benchmarks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/benchmarks) [Turbogears](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Turbogears) [Python](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Python) [Ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ruby) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/PHP) [Perl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Perl) [Symfony](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Symfony)) - [OpenSUSE Build System – Miguel de Icaza](http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-26.html) i’ll have to give this a look; looks like an interesting package generation application (tags: [Linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Linux) [package-management](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/package-management) [OpenSUSE](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OpenSUSE) [GPL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GPL)) - [Open Sources | InfoWorld | Red Hat to open source its Network product | January 29, 2007 12:38 PM | By Matt Asay](http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/red_hat_to_open.html) “Red Hat is going to be open sourcing both the Red Hat Network Satellite Server and the JBoss Operations Network Server.” – this isn’t the network offering i’ve been envisioning, but it’s definitely part of the solution (tags: [network](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/network) [offering](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/offering) [JBoss](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JBoss) [RedHat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedHat) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource)) - [opendocument.foundation – The OpenDocument Foundation](http://opendocument.foundation.googlepages.com/home) will be testing this out on our RedMonk report templates which are fairly heavily complex in terms of formatting (tags: [ODF](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ODF) [office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/office) [OOXML](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OOXML) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [plugins](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/plugins) [OpenDocumentFoundation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OpenDocumentFoundation)) - [Feld Thoughts – What Does It Take to Scale A Web 2.0 Startup?](http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002156.html) “I think there will be a steady stream of failures. That’s normal and should be no surprise to anyone.” – precisely (tags: [Web2.0](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Web2.0) [failures](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/failures) [startups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/startups) [Feld](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Feld)) - [The persistent blogosphere « Jon Udell](http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/01/29/the-persistent-blogosphere/) “Just because most blog entries aren’t written for posterity doesn’t mean that many can’t be or shouldn’t be. My view is that blogs are becoming our resumes, our digital portfolios, our public identities.” – i concur (tags: [blogging](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/blogging) [Udell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Udell) [resumes](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/resumes) [portfolio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/portfolio) [identity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/identity)) - [Life at Eclipse: Open Source Meets Business](http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-source-meets-business.html) RedMonk customers be warned: my travel miseries are apparently communicable to you as well as my colleagues (tags: [Milinkovich](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Milinkovich) [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [customer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/customer) [travel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/travel)) - [American Journalism Review](http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4258) great interview w/ Adrian, one of the more interesting devs i’ve met (tags: [Holovaty](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Holovaty) [chicagocrime.org](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/chicagocrime.org) [mashups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mashups) [creativity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/creativity) [Post](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Post) [journalism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/journalism)) - [Rocky Mountain News – Denver and Colorado’s reliable source for breaking news, sports and entertainment: Local](http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5314130,00.html) not surprised by this, but pleased – it should be best for both sides (tags: [Helton](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Helton) [trade](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trade) [Rockies](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Rockies) [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball)) - [Eagle Lugging a Deer Head Causes Outage](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EAGLE_POWER_OUTAGE?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) “You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario,” said Gayle Wood… “This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill.” – the moral? don’t get greedy (tags: [via:Bree](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Bree) [Juneau](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Juneau) [eagle](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/eagle) [deer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/deer) [weird](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weird) [poweroutage](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/poweroutage))