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For the longest time, I’ve been using the concept of “Bus Theory” when talking to our team. ie. ‘What happens if someone gets run over by a bus’. It’s suppose to make you think about contingency plans and all that stuff.

Unfortunately on the weekend, one of my friends was hit by a bus while he was putting his young son into his car seat. Thankfully, he has been able to walk away with only  multiple fractures in his arm. Thankfully, his young son was completely unharmed.

Its humbling to when you think about the whole thing. Its a timely reminder that sometimes we take things for granted and that our relationships with our friends and family are what really matters.

Xlinks is a collection of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX Team

Steve Yegge on Server side Javascript
Added on 06/17/2008 at 07:21AM

The passive agressive programmer or why nothing gets done
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:44PM




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Now you can upload PDFs into Google Docs
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:40PM

Calculus in 20 minutes
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:39PM

Facebook no longer the second largest social network
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:39PM

How to create keypress navigation in jQuery
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:37PM

37 signals on You have to treat employees like customers
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:36PM

Algorithmic ink in Javascript
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:34PM

Zen Planning: 4 Simple Rules for Balancing Short Term Necessity with Long Term Direction
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:33PM

NZ Broadband is trailing the rest of the world
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:03PM

Runtime page optimiser
Added on 06/16/2008 at 12:19PM

Javascript framework usage at top sites
Added on 06/12/2008 at 08:39AM

37 signals link to BMW’s Gina
Added on 06/11/2008 at 10:13PM

Yahoo Design templates -wireframes
Added on 06/11/2008 at 05:58PM

Yahoo Design Patterns
Added on 06/11/2008 at 05:57PM

Free Rails 2.1 PDF
Added on 06/10/2008 at 04:53PM

How not to be viral – software adoption patterns
Added on 06/10/2008 at 03:49PM

iPhone NZ bound July 11
Added on 06/10/2008 at 12:54PM

Passenger 2.0 rc1 and ruby enterprise released
Added on 06/10/2008 at 09:43AM

Ajax performance analysis
Added on 05/05/2008 at 07:22AM
Google now lets you advertise on TV
Added on 05/02/2008 at 03:41PM

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Rowan Simpson – Speed is not something you can solve: – its all about continous measurement and improvement.
Added on 04/30/2008 at 10:48PM

Rod Drury on Productivity
Added on 04/30/2008 at 09:28PM

More active mobile phones in Australia than people
Added on 04/30/2008 at 10:26AM

Map reduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters
Added on 04/30/2008 at 10:09AM

Average webpage size triples since 2003
Added on 04/30/2008 at 10:04AM

Fast streaming ajaxy proxy
Added on 04/30/2008 at 09:32AM

The Startup curve as drawn by Paul Graham
Added on 04/28/2008 at 12:46PM

Seth Godin Action Figure
Added on 04/28/2008 at 11:31AM

Edward Tufte looks at the iPhone
Added on 04/28/2008 at 10:37AM

Better reporting with sparklines
Added on 04/28/2008 at 09:39AM

Naming is important:

SimulScribe or PhoneTag.

Simple is better.
Added on 04/23/2008 at 12:46PM

Startup School 08: conference for hackers interested in startups
Added on 04/22/2008 at 04:17PM

What is the future of ajax applications talking to the data tier
Added on 04/22/2008 at 11:56AM

I’m part of the Silicon All-Stars team in the webstock halfbaked challenge

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Its seems like a bit of a no contest… a bunch of industry professionals (Code Blacks) vs a group of battle hardened entrepreneurs (Silicon Welly All-Stars). The excuses are already starting to flow..

The CodeBlacks have been hit with injuries and players signing to overseas leagues for exorbitant sums. In fact the team is down to only three original CodeBlacks…

OK, full credit to the code blacks, they did build a website in 24 hours, but you’re talking to seasoned entrepreneurs and our businesses crank out new products, websites and business ideas every other week!.

The Silicon Welly All-Stars have strong history, we’ve raised more money, won more awards, launched more products, released more code, marketed more ideas, hired more people!

And we have our secret weapon team captain Tim Norton – the fast mouth in the south. 5 minutes to pitch a new business, he’s already demo’d PlanHQ to world in 6 minutes.

Mod js
Added on 04/20/2008 at 09:32PM
Getting creative with PNG transparency
Added on 04/20/2008 at 09:30PM

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10 reasons entrepreneurs need to have more vacations
Added on 04/20/2008 at 03:04PM

NSFW Blocker Using MooTools and CSS: How to dynamically mask images that are not safe for work
Added on 04/18/2008 at 11:29AM

IBM launches internal pilot program to test migration to Macs
Added on 04/18/2008 at 10:08AM

Fostering Innovation at Pixar
Added on 04/18/2008 at 09:45AM

Busy.js – javascript loading library
Added on 04/17/2008 at 09:34AM

Usingjs library – Managing Javascript dependencies
Added on 04/15/2008 at 01:01PM

KML is now a OGS standard
Added on 04/15/2008 at 10:21AM

More from 37 signals on Ricardo Semeler’s Maverick
Added on 04/15/2008 at 09:55AM

XMPP: Hat tip to Rowan for spotting the new technology
Added on 04/15/2008 at 09:12AM

Salesforce with Google Apps
Added on 04/14/2008 at 05:15PM

37 signals on Gary Vaynerchuk branding and marketing
Added on 04/10/2008 at 10:38AM

37 Signals on “Maverick ” – Ricardo Semler’s book : This is one of the best business books out therehellip
Added on 04/10/2008 at 10:31AM

Super Mario written in Javascript : All the Super Mario goodness in only 14k
Added on 04/09/2008 at 07:26PM

Heroku – RoR platform on the cloud
Added on 04/09/2008 at 05:23PM

I’ve decided to create a RSS (Blog) feed to aggregate all of the RSS from all of the NZ mapping and spatial companies. I thought it would a great idea to promote a single RSS feed to the industry to promote ideas, products etc.

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After a quick look at some of the top players in the space, very few have RSS feeds. (Which is very disappointing!)
If you know of a blog that should be on this list either email me john at projectx.co.nz or add it on the wiki page I have created at barcamp wiki.

Just upgraded our ProjectX blog to wordpress 2.5. It was amazing easy to upgrade and instructions are really comprehensive. So far, I really like the backend . They have really improved the whole interface. Most actions that I want to do are now within the first screen roll.

Nice work to the WordPress team.

Well, I’m a bit late to the party in terms of writing about Foo Camp that’s because I was pretty knackered to start with. So I thought I’d just write about my personal highlights:

(Note to self. Don’t pack in 5 meetings in one day before foo camp, and thus lose your voice !)

• Great to catch up lots of people from all around NZ, Ben and Nick, Tasha, Glenn, Robert and Robert
• Seminars were great, but discussions outside were much better.
• Debating the merits of Internships (Summer of Code) with a selection of academic and industry people.
• The Torkingtons’ jammin’ out some catchy tunes on the double bass, guitar and banjo.
• Seeing niche discussion groups spring up and thrash out ideas.
• Watching Toby hacked up a object tracking system with a webcam within a couple of hours.
• Having a play with a Meraki device
• Eating the best conference food for many a year

And finally a big thanks to Vern, Russell, Nat and Jenine for putting it all together. You guys are awesome!

Here’s a simple test to see if you use more of your right brain than your left brain….

It’s a little freaky when it changes direction!

Here’s a fix to a problem I had with a using an usb drive on both Mac and Windows.

Problem: A directory of files was missing from a USB drive. (NTFS formatted USB drive). But, when I browsed the disk on Mac, the directory and files were visible.

Looking at the disk properties (ie. disk space used on the drive), it showed that the files were still there. It was really strange, and a lot of googling couldn’t find the answer.

Solution: Use the dos command chkdsk -f to fix the errors on the disk. The USB disk must have got corrupted when switch between machines.

Thanks to Milton for suggesting the fix. The problem was exsaserbated because it happen which I was migrating from Windows to Mac. 🙂