In the nineties Lean Manufacturing or Lean Production was all the hype. It was being proposed as the optimal way of producing goods through the removal of waste and implementing flow, as opposed to batch and queue.This generic process management
Polymeme is a new memetracker that bills itself as "a polymath's guide to news." Polymeme is the brainchild of Evgeny Morozov who started the project because of his frustration with most current memetrackers and the echo chamber effect often associated
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means
As Twitter began to fail on a regular basis, many of its users turned to other micro-blogging services to continue on with their 140-character lifestyle. Some returned to Jaiku or Pownce, others starting plurking, and just recently, an open source
Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today announced the release of Street View for the route of
Duartes has composed one of the most important Software Engineering articles that I have seen in along while titled, "Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering"
In today's society, with the Internet reaching almost every home and business, the number of people wanting to have a Website is dramtically increasing
Washington: Calling America "a melting pot of cultures" from across the world, US President George W Bush today made his final Independence Day appearance at Monticello in Virginia by welcoming 72 new citizens from 30 countries, including India.
New Delhi: The fact that the Chinese refused to ink the 1914 Shimla Convention agreement between India and Tibet puts question mark over the legality or morality of China's claim of sovereignty over Tibet, a group of India's top jurists,
On the SaniSoft blog Tarique Sani has posted about (and made available for download) some code sniffs for the CakePHP framework. Some problems arose with some of the naming that the framework uses, but with some "tinkering around"...[It became] apparent
Lukas Smith has just become the co-release manager for the much anticipated next stable release in the PHP 5.x series - PHP 5.3.Its quite an honor and a challenge. [...] We hope together we have enough brain cycles to push
Doug Brown has posted a new entry to his blog about how the Zend_Cache component of the Zend Framework has saved him some money.He and his site were taken offline by his own hosting company because of one little detail
Mike Bernat is a big fan of XDebug and has posted about why he thinks installing it is the best decision you'll ever make.I finally got around to installing Xdebug on my development environment and have decided it is the
