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Entries from November 2006

Pandora powers MSN Radio

November 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Services

It’s been over a year since I was introduced to Pandora. Since then many others whose blogs I read and interact with online have discovered this compelling experience. Recently Brad Wilson posted that MSN Radio has become powered by Pandora. Sounds like a smart move by both Microsoft and Pandora to me.

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Tool time

November 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Life

My son and I decided to spruce up his sister’s room a bit. Given his exposure to pair programming and other agile techniques (joke), we decided to try our hands at “pair drilling.”

According to my wife, the results weren’t half-bad either.

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An open source Omea?

November 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Content management, Inspiration, Lessons, Open source

Now that Michael Gerasimov, one of the last remaining Omea developers at JetBrains, has gone public on the jetbrains.omea.pro newsgroup with the state of affairs at JetBrains concerning Omea, I can comment here.
While JetBrains may receive more revenue and recognition from its IntelliJ IDEA product (e.g. leading edge refactoring support in a Java IDE), Omea represents a compelling [...]

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