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Posted
25 June 2007 @ 3am

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Work

Latest work/real estate related links

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Nestoria announces the winners of their API hacking contest. I really love the secondhand clothes mashup: find Oxfam shops in pricey neighbourhoods, where there are likely to be lots of designer clothes donated.

Three random cool things I’ve [...]


Posted
14 June 2007 @ 5pm

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Work

I want this office.

Via O’Reilly Radar, check out Three Rings’ cool pirate-themed office!

We’re going through an office re-decoration at the moment. Wonder if I can talk the boss into this? And hammocks instead of desks — I hear the Royal Navy could fit each person into 18″ of space that way, which sounds like about [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 4pm

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Tech

Yet another 5 uses for a wiki at work

I just can’t stop.

  1. Induction materials

We’ve got one wiki page called “NewDeveloperInduction”, and on the day a new hire starts, they quickly learn that that page contains — or links to — all the basic information they’re going to need to know in their first week or two. We also have a policy [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 3pm

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Tech

5 more uses for a wiki at work

In followup to Lifehack’s 5 uses for a wiki at work, via Social Media in Australia, here are another five:

  1. Technical documentation

Funny this wasn’t in the original five, but perhaps it’s just too obvious. Most places I’ve worked, the wiki’s been installed by the techies and has taken off in that group first. [...]