Google Notebook launches and TechCrunch says ho hum, complaining about the lack of tagging and the Google-like interface. They like the drag-drop organization and ability to quickly search across public notebooks.

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Programmers, get out of your cube and play nice, share your knowledge, be open to learning from others… just a bit of great advice based on the concept of peer code reviews in Jerry Weinberg’s book The Psychology of Computer Programming. It is often tough for developers to detach themselves from their code. Code reviews [...]

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You can now (or soon will be able to) add pictures to your Gmail Contacts. Gmail chat can now play sounds when a chat message arrives, provided you have Flash installed. This is a welcome addition, since I commonly Alt-Tab over to Gmail to discover that someone sent me a message three hours ago. (Via [...]

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Not that big a deal, but you can format your Gmail Talk Statuses in Gmail and include some special characters. Bold and Italics Get bold or italics using Textile-like commands. Surround text with underscores “_” for italics, or asteriks “*” for bold. For example, enter _Really_ Busy to display Really Busy. Update: you can now [...]

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Product development cycles are riddled with problems. Sales people promise a great new, impossible Whatsit to customers then come tell you the Whatsit has to be built. Managers give engineers a delivery date and then ask engineers to size the effort. The engineers scramble, back burner the Hoozit project they were told last month was [...]

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It’s kind of old, but somewhere I stumbled on Ned Batchelder’s article on deleting code. At first glance it looked to be a trivial subject, but it actually turned out to be an interesting read. I have been guilty of leaving dead code lying around, but on the other hand I have clipped stuff that [...]

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Another top-tutorial list. Top 20 Ajax Tutorials. Via digg.

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