Technology:

• Real Terminal, All Chrome — No Nonsense
• Common MySQL queries
• Free Graph Databases e-book
• Surge conference 2012 videos
• Collectd3 is a modern visualization of collectd system performance statistics.

  See the live demo.

• Load testing: an unexpected journey — getting ready for Paper launch

English

• An FYI on acronyms
• Language diversity issues in EU

Other

Better later than never, spent the night reading this book, because could not have torn myself away from it. Absolute must-read for SAs, gives a perspective of IT role in modern firms, shows challenges management faces, and also vividly depicts how fast one can get IT working given right approaches. Excellent.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford: 9780988262591: Amazon.com: Bookshttp://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592Awesome book. It really captures the day to day struggles of the IT world. It give a unique look into the misconceptions of IT and how businesses tend to neglect the…

Very interesting Paula Scher’s TED talk where she looks back at a life in design (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo …) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun.

Crikey, I know this feeling:

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