Picky about font, esp. the programming font.The fonts available on windows are still ok but if you using Linux desktop the font's selection is limited and crave for better free fonts.Don't worry you are in for a treat. These monspaced fonts look great on any OS. Check it out.
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The other day I was reviewing XP practices and came accross this interesting scoop about differences between Scrum and XP. As the author mentions, XP and Scrum are very aligned but have subtle yet important differences and I agree with those. It worth a read.
A very informative and practical presentation that talks about how website can be scaled up to handle milliions of page views a month all using free/open source solutions. It starts from a simple setup and expands on a more complex one. Similarly other stacks can be sacled to build a scalable platform.
This has been a question of debate ever since, how do you effectively measure the work done by a programmer? Do you count the no. of lines, statements etc. Check out this comic strip..