Summary of the strategy of building low-burn-rate startups, i.e. capital efficient and generally frugal. By taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste.
Will the Google Apps team’s announcement on 29 January 2010 be the tipping point for the end of widespread support of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6?
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
- The Google Apps Team
This will come as music to the ears of long-suffering interface developers who have had to struggle with numerous CSS hacks, the lack of support for alpha transparency in PNG images and security problems – to support a nine-year old product reluctantly supported by Microsoft.
Roll on 01 March 2010!
In searching for a simple, open source (and free) Subversion client for OS X, I came across RapidSVN. I’m using RapidSVN, a multi-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system.
RapidSVN is an open-source client for Windows, Linux, OS X and other *nixes. It’s simple and functional but requires third-party tools for functionality such as visual Diffs. Its written in C++ and executes native code, so it’s the fastest cross-platform client.
While the user interface is not as nice as Versions, it’s lightweight feel and zero cost fits my current needs.
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RapidSVN
On his blog, Succeeding With Agile, Mike Cohn put together a list of all the things that should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:
I blogged about this before, but wanted to add some more points to the list:
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The Ideal Agile Workspace | Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile®
Via @dailyscrum on Twitter.
[Further reading]
List of Scrum artifacts
Big visible charts – Ron Jeffries
Attempting to Achieve the Ideal Agile Workspace
A peek inside the p&p Team Room
The folks over at SEOptimise are predicted a decline in embedding YouTube on your website and have kindly provided a number of alternatives.
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Open Source FLV players
PM-Sherpa lists a number of web-based project collaboration tools as an alternative to Basecamp.
A helpful part of the article lists the alternatives by attribute: Hosted SAAS, Open Source, Free Plan Available, Enterprise Capable, Licensed Software, Includes CRM, Free Hosted Services, Exposes an API.
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PM-Sherpa: Your Project Management/Online Collaboration Tools Expedition Guide
Web Worker Daily: Alternatives to Basecamp for Project Management
10 interesting UI design patterns to solve common user interface problems.
[Link] Smashing Magazine:
10 UI Design Patterns
Mike Cohn: “I put together a list of all the things that I think should be visible within the ideal agile workspace”:
[Link] From Mike Cohn’s blog:
blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com
A huge collection of Tutorials, Logo Inspirations and Online Tools and services to develop your brand and create the perfect Logo.
[Link] Tripwire Magazine:
80+ Logo Designers Huge Essential Toolbox