Remember the Milk is web-based task management app.

It’s been a month since I made Remember The Milk (RTM) part of my daily life. At this point, I’d go through massive withdrawals if I had to “Forget The Milk”.
Tips:

It’s not very obvious that you can edit multiple tasks at the same time by pressing ‘m‘. [...]

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After my post “JIRA Is More Annoying Than Having to Eat Three Times A Day” was published yesterday, Jon Silvers from Atlassian (developers of JIRA) stopped by and left a friendly comment.
I’m incredibly impressed that my tongue-in-cheek critique came to his attention so quickly.
Hey Jon,
First, thanks for commenting! I’m glad you [...]

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Photo by bocavermelha
Up until I snapped a few minutes ago, I wasn’t sure anything could be more annoying than having to eat every day. After all, I’ve been told by close friends that I’d be a happier entity if I was simply a brain in a jar, left entirely to its own thoughts. I don’t [...]

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Photo by Grazie, Davvero
Robert Scoble recently stated why enterprise software isn’t sexy enough to cover on mainstream technology blogs.
He offers two arguments:

The majority of tech blog readers will never be in the position to buy enterprise software.
Stories about business software, due to a disconnect with their readership, don’t produce meaningful traffic for the blog’s advertisers.

He [...]

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Photo by Balakov
I’ve been programming for about 16 years now.
I almost called this my “Most Important Programming Lessons”, but I consider writing software to involve far more than a mastery over programming arcana.
When I first discovered source code, I didn’t pick up a manual and start reading about data structures and flow control. That [...]

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photo by Jeremy Johnstone
Burnout.
It starts with the feeling you can overcome anything.
It’s reinforced when you overcome a swell of adversity.
It languishes when you thirst for more mountains to climb.
It roars into revival when your enthusiasm brings you to the truly insurmountable.
It laughs when you try.
It grows when you struggle.
It lays roots when you capitulate.
It wins [...]

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Photo by jazzmasterson
If we’re anything alike, you also use a wild tangle of web applications to manage your life or job. We all love web applications — they’re often inexpensive (if not free) and they allow us access our data from almost anywhere. If you have a modern cellphone then you’ve probably also felt the [...]

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Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
 
Scanning through the November 2007 analytics for www.cerberusweb.com shows 34% of our traffic comes from Google search results. We’ve always had a strong “word of mouth” factor in our marketing, but sometimes we get a bit too proud of that and overlook the benefits of fresh traffic from [...]

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Photo by Jeff Standen
Naturally, not all businesses have a choice of whether or not they’re going to be funded or bootstrapped. Some business plans will always require major equipment, inventory, real-estate, licensing or other initial costs that simply cannot be paid for by actual customers voting with their wallets. A software company, on the other [...]

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