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Re: 50 Fastest-Growing Software Companies

Adrian McEwen — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:33:25 -0000

What do you mean by "all of these companies are US based"? Although they have a presence in the US, Autonomy are a UK company based here in Cambridge.

Re: Geoff potential guests being led astray.

Adrian McEwen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:58:36 -0000

I'm going to be busy moving boxes around for the next two days, but if you still haven't got it sorted by Friday, drop me a line and I'm sure I can help out with the regexps.

Re: A Modest Proposal For More Microstructure: /Location

Adrian McEwen — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:39:09 -0000

It doesn't use '/', but if you the use the service http://mapme.at to track your location then you can already update your location just by putting it in '(...)' in your tweets. See http://blog.mapme.at/2008/09/21/maintaining-you... for a better explanation of how it works.

Re: Tools to manage small project teams

Adrian McEwen — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:10:38 -0000

What do the filled in spreadsheets feed into? I tend to use one spreadsheet which lists all the tasks for the project, regardless of who is scheduled to perform them - (the theory being) it gives everyone an idea of what there is to be done, and what other people are doing.

Then, once a week, I get the team together for a brief meeting where we quickly go round each team member and fill in what they've done for the week. The added benefit being that you get everyone together providing an opportunity to raise issues and generally improve communication within the team.

Re: Brainstorming

Adrian McEwen — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:41:08 -0000

I think "Outside the Valley" is the best idea - it'll stop you from falling back on an easy these-guys-are-just-round-the-corner approach. But I'm biased, I'm outside the Valley so would be able to star in it ;-)

Re: Why I don’t recommend Cocomment

Adrian McEwen — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:27:01 -0000

I'll second http://co.mments.com/

I tried coComments when it first launched, but wasn't impressed as it only seemed to show me other comments left by coComments users. co.mments.com will show me all the comments left on a post.

And as you click on a bookmarklet independently of posting a comment, it won't ever get in the way of you leaving a comment! (and you can track comments on posts that you haven't commented on yourself)

Re: Tracking comments with Delicious.com

Adrian McEwen — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:17:33 -0000

co.mments.com (not CoComment) was perfect for this - you clicked a little bookmarklet when you were on a page with comments you wanted to track, and it gave you an RSS feed of any new comments that arrived.

Sadly it's just closed down, so I'm similarly on the lookout for something. I've been trying BackType (IIRC) of late, but don't think much of it so far - most of the time it tells me it doesn't support whatever blog I'm trying to track, and even on the few times it's worked I haven't seen anything appear in the RSS feed.

I wonder how easy it would be to be to write one? Take your delicious hack for the input and scrape the pages to look for new comments...

Re: Howduino Poole

Adrian McEwen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:01:26 -0000

Thanks for the write-up Sam. It was good to meet you at the weekend too