--- title: links for 2008-02-08 date: 2008-02-08T05:18:29Z modified: 2008-02-08T05:18:29Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/07/links-for-2008-02-08/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1946 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-02-08T05:18:29Z tags: - Links --- - [Vendors Still Paying For IT Research That Flatters Them – WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120165268174726989.html?mod=technology_main_promo_left&apl=y&r=218292) filed under: “not shocking” (tags: [commissioned](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/commissioned) [research](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/research) [aberdeen](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/aberdeen) [via:brenda](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:brenda)) - [YUI Grid CSS and Grid Builder Kick Ass! (by Jeremy Zawodny)](http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009883.html) i need to try these: wicked clevah may be wicked clevah, but it’s ugly as hell (tags: [css](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/css) [design](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/design) [development](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/development) [grids](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/grids) [webdesign](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webdesign) [webdevelopment](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webdevelopment) [yahoo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/yahoo)) - [joe shaw / 我已经厌倦了这](http://joeshaw.org/2008/02/03/518) amen. why we can’t filter by character set is beyond me. (tags: [joeshaw](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/joeshaw) [chinese](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/chinese) [cyrillic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cyrillic) [language](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/language) [spam](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/spam) [filter](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/filter) [gmail](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gmail) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google)) - [BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Force strong for new Jedi church](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7200531.stm) on the one hand, this is hilarious. on the other, Jediism is no more absurd than some of the other available religions. (tags: [jedi](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jedi) [religion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/religion) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [uk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/uk) [weird](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weird)) - [cfis : Must Read Rails Performance Article](http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2008/02/02/must-read-rails-performance-article) thoughts on Rails performance, a popular topic of late (tags: [charliesavage](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/charliesavage) [performance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/performance) [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [rubyonrails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rubyonrails) [rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rails)) - [spyderous: Improving Gentoo’s PR](http://spyderous.livejournal.com/95223.html) for those open source projects that believe that marketing and public opinion don’t matter to their projects (i.e build it and they will come), i present evidence to the contrary. kudos to Donnie for his excellent work to date. (tags: [gentoo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gentoo) [pr](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pr) [donnieberkholz](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/donnieberkholz) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [marketing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/marketing)) - [First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080202-first-look-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-alpha-4.html) whenever i get my hands on one of the new rumored laptops, i’m going to be running Heron. glad to see it coming along so well. (tags: [hardyheron](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hardyheron) [ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ubuntu) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [security](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/security)) - [Raible Designs | Groovy, Rails needs Components, RIA Frameworks compared and faster WebTests](http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/groovy_rails_with_components_ria) “To summarize: use Groovy over Java, Rails needs components, Flex is the best RIA framework and WebTest keeps getting better. These aren’t my words, but I don’t see much fault in them either.” (tags: [mattrailble](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mattrailble) [groovy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/groovy) [java](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/java) [rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rails) [ria](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ria) [flex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/flex) [webtest](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webtest)) - [Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Technology Rejection Curve](http://bitworking.org/news/293/The-Technology-Rejection-Curve) “There just has to be a reason for the failure, and it couldn’t possibly be the technology. This is what I call the “Scooby-Doo” phase of the technology rejection curve, where the rubber mask has been ripped off and the crook yells as he’s dragged off” (tags: [joegregorio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/joegregorio) [soa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/soa) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring)) - [Netscape Windows 3.1 :: Firefox Add-ons](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3471) this is absolutely hilarious (tags: [firefox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/firefox) [netscape](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/netscape) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [theme](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/theme) [via:joshua](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:joshua))