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Integrating Applications With OpenSSO

Integrating Applications With OpenSSO. Good overview of how OpenSSO works (hint: pretty much the same way other web based SSO systems work).  Includes an example of a Rails app using OpenSSO.
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Les Misbarack

Must see... classic... Les Misbarack
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Drooling all over my MBP looking at the ...

Drooling all over my MBP looking at the new MacBook line up. Sadly, can't justify the expense right now.
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Have a need to compile your Rails app (o ...

Have a need to compile your Rails app (on JRuby)? If you're shipping a Rails app as a product and need to protect your IP, JRuby can compile your *.rb files to first class Java class files... but you'll need this patch. After applying that, you can simply do this: [code language=ruby] jrubyc app/ lib/ rm `find app/ lib/ -name '*.rb'` [/code]
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Textmate user (but used to use Vim)? Yo ...

Textmate user (but used to use Vim)? You're free to come back home to Vim now... http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim
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Kevin Marks on the Future of Enterprise ...

Kevin Marks on the Future of Enterprise Web Apps... guess what, it's about Open Social http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/highlights/kevin-marks/
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I think I'm finally going to get around ...

I think I'm finally going to get around to blogging again.
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Waiting for GitHub to come back online.. ...

Waiting for GitHub to come back online... how can you build a business off of source hosting if you're gonna be down this long?
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Work or Life?

DHH
wrote an insightful post recently that highlights the importance of a work/life balance. I feel exactly the same way as David. I spent many years burning the midnight oil constantly and tirelessly working on "being 90% done for 90% of the time." For me, it's work to get out of that mode, but when I do, I do seem to accomplish more. Why I love working with family people - (37signals)
From the experience I've had working with family people, I've found an amazing ability to get stuff done when the objectives are reasonably clear, the work appears to have meaning, and if it can be done within the scope of what should constitute a work week. When there are real constraints on your time, like you have to pickup the kids or make them dinner or put them to bed, it appears to bring a serenity of focus to the specific hours dedicated to work. This is what companies need, startups or not. They need constraints and especially constraints on how often you can play the hero card to Get This Very Important Project Done. Most projects are just not that important and most things just shouldn't be done anyway, despite how good of an idea you feel it is in the heat of the moment.
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Truman: November 2, 2001 - April 18, 2008

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.  Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way.  We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan....
 -- "The Once Again Prince", Irving Townsend

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