Month: December 1999

Slashdot has a book review Extreme Programming Explained, there is also a companion site XProgramming.com and if you would like to get the book FatBrain is selling it. I have not read it yet but everything I have heard is compelling.

Eric S. Raymond Announces New Book in Progress The Art Of Unix Programming
. The Contents page, (Note: Many of the chapter links don’t go anywhere yet!), Preface (Who should read this book. How to use it. Acknowledgments.)
, and Chapter 1 (Philosophy Matters)

Metcalfe’s Law in Reverse (Alertbox July 1999)
“Current attempts to split the Web into many isolated mini-networks undermine the long-term potential of the
Internet which depends on universal interconnection:”
If ya wanna be on the internet and break down the competition’s doors they will get to do it right back.

Scripting News has a comment on Richard Stalman‘s request to boycott Amazon.com.

“I agree. I can live without 1-Click ordering. I can’t support what Amazon is doing. Please join me in telling Amazon and other predatory patent holders that it’s a bad idea to use patents as a competitive weapon.”

Change Agent – Issue 31
In My Humble Opinion: “In the face of change, the competent are helpless.”

Fight Incompetence

StartupNetwork.com – The leading online recruitment site dedicated to high tech startups.
Looks good, has to be better than monster 🙂

Positive Propaganda: Behind the Web
A directory of independent websites.
Hey nominate http://www.fozbaca.org/ 🙂