Management

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2000314&cid=35231538 suggestions for writing up an email when finishing an IT-consulting gig

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/ Notes about facebook internal PM process (release, builds, QA, deployments, management, etc) … Interesting that they manage to do their work like a small startup team, even thought they are #1 site on the Net and have ~ 2K employees.

http://blog.asmartbear.com/software-quality-mortgage.html notes on what is technical debt in the project and how to deal with, and how to convince non-technical stake-holders in the project that the debt should be re-paid.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html from Joel – how to keep realistic schedules

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyId=3937E483-5CF1-4563-9DCB-8EBA85A47D1C&displaylang=en checklist template for release to production, roll out plan (.doc)

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/11/linus-on-branching.html START NEW BRANCHES FROM A KNOWN STABLE POINT. that’s it. the article (and Linus) basically explain why it’s bad to do otherwise

http://lpeer.blogspot.com/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java.html Great post about challenges that one team inside of Redhat faced when they were challenged with the task of migrating C#/IIS/MS-SQL-based VM management tool into Java. The post is more interested from the project management perspective, than from the technology side.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?hl=en&tid=384dd0d72db87c6d thread on google support forums about ‘Google Application Premiere Edition’ customer and technical support, features and like

http://www.argentuminvoice.com/ open source client-management and invoicing software

http://www.guardiannetworks.com/articles/2009/10/29/orange-county-data-centers/ blog article about current (Q4-2009) offerings for colocation services in Orange County. Info general info is pretty accurate, pricing information is [surprisingly] accurate as well, withing about 30% margin.