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Archive for September, 2009
Will spend the rest of the week in UP Diliman for Y4iT starting tomorrow. My planned schedule was posted here.
Will try to post short comments about the event either here or my Twitter account (I don’t want to pollute my Plurk with IT stuff 
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(Logo c/o Y4iT site)
Facebook looks at the meta="description" element of the shared link to determine its excerpt. The following link discusses how to do this:
Matthew Ebel » Blog Archive » Adding WP Post Excerpts to Facebook Links
The process requires modifying the header of your current theme, usually the header.php.
It’s also possible that the meta="description" element is missing in your theme (like in CRC‘s Suffusion theme). If that’s the case, just add the missing element.
[EDIT: Ditched this and went with All in One SEO Pack plugin instead.]
Lean marks the 100th daily entry post for this blog. Yay, me!
To mark this occasion, let’s look back to those 100 posts and see if we could find something interesting.
As mentioned in the previous post, Deming influenced a number of 21st century management techniques. Most of them have already ascended to buzzword status like “Six Sigma” and “Total Quality Management (TQM)” and should be familiar to those working in corporations and bibiliophiles browsing books in local specialty bookstores.
Instead of enumerating and discussing all of those approaches to management, I’ll just give an overview on the management technique that encompasses most of them: Lean.
Whenever you’re reading books or watching presentations on management, two names are bound to show up.
Like revision control, fresh graduates are introduced to the foreign concept of code conventions (or “coding standards”) once they enter professional software teams. As implied by the term, “code conventions” are a set of standards and guidelines that developers have to follow when coding in their software project.
Contrary to what many people think, code conventions are not there simply to make code style consistent throughout large projects with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Nor is it simply an unnecessary tool used by senior developers to assert their control over the project that only complicates coding.
In fact, properly defined code conventions help manage complexity.
In the next few posts, I’ll be posting about other fundamentals that I have missed so that we could move on to better stuff (i.e. stuff that not everyone knows) by the time I reach the 100 post mark.
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The Pareto Principle (also known by many names e.g. Law of the Vital Few, 80/20 Principle, etc.) is a widely observed phenomenon wherein 80% of the effects come from only 20% of the causes.
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