Linkfest: management, how to read non-fiction, XWiki, and Bob the Friendly Eidolon
Today is linkspam day.
1. Management theory
Because I'm curious about what happens to companies when they go from being fairly small to getting rapidly larger. kingofwrong recommended looking at reading lists for MBAs, but do any of you guys have suggestions for reading?
Here are some things I've found so far, though:
* Rankings of MBA programmes for 2006, so I know where to look for reading lists
* Joel Spolsky's suggested MBA curriculum
* The Personal MBA Manifesto, which links to a list of books
* Wikipedia's page on Theory X and Theory Y, a comparison of theories of management (based on whether the manager trusts their employer to work if not forced to)
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2. "How to read non-fiction"
http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/howtoread.pdf
Has some interesting advice about reading books through three times, and also mentions annotating them in the third pass through to maximise how much you absorb.
An open question to readers - do you annotate books you own? For example, to correct mistakes (one of my housemakes marks errata in some of his computer science books). What about commenting in them?
Have you ever come across annotations or marginal notes in books you borrowed, from a friend or a library? Anything interesting?
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3. XWiki
I've been looking at wiki systems recently, and came across XWiki.
It appears to be marketing itself differently from other wiki systems I've seen. Specifically, it calls itself a "second generation wiki".
I'm not sure what they were saying on that page. I think they were saying that XWiki is not just a wiki system, it can also be used to run blogs and collaborative applications.
I'm going to investigate XWiki to see:
(a) if I can install it on my own machine at home, rather than needing a server running Apache
(b) if I can edit the XWikiCodeMacro system to do syntax highlighting for languages other than XML, Java and SQL
(c) if it's actually tolerable as a wiki system, because right now it confuses me simply because I'm not used to it (unlike UseModWiki and MediaWiki, both of which I'm vaguely familiar with).
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4. Bob the Friendly Eidolon
And finally, aquarionical gives a Rule 7 thread a much-needed dose of humour and sense:
http://forums.rule7.co.uk/FindPost41313.aspx
You rock, Aquarion. :)
1. Management theory
Because I'm curious about what happens to companies when they go from being fairly small to getting rapidly larger. kingofwrong recommended looking at reading lists for MBAs, but do any of you guys have suggestions for reading?
Here are some things I've found so far, though:
* Rankings of MBA programmes for 2006, so I know where to look for reading lists
* Joel Spolsky's suggested MBA curriculum
* The Personal MBA Manifesto, which links to a list of books
* Wikipedia's page on Theory X and Theory Y, a comparison of theories of management (based on whether the manager trusts their employer to work if not forced to)
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2. "How to read non-fiction"
http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/howtoread.pdf
Has some interesting advice about reading books through three times, and also mentions annotating them in the third pass through to maximise how much you absorb.
An open question to readers - do you annotate books you own? For example, to correct mistakes (one of my housemakes marks errata in some of his computer science books). What about commenting in them?
Have you ever come across annotations or marginal notes in books you borrowed, from a friend or a library? Anything interesting?
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3. XWiki
I've been looking at wiki systems recently, and came across XWiki.
It appears to be marketing itself differently from other wiki systems I've seen. Specifically, it calls itself a "second generation wiki".
I'm not sure what they were saying on that page. I think they were saying that XWiki is not just a wiki system, it can also be used to run blogs and collaborative applications.
I'm going to investigate XWiki to see:
(a) if I can install it on my own machine at home, rather than needing a server running Apache
(b) if I can edit the XWikiCodeMacro system to do syntax highlighting for languages other than XML, Java and SQL
(c) if it's actually tolerable as a wiki system, because right now it confuses me simply because I'm not used to it (unlike UseModWiki and MediaWiki, both of which I'm vaguely familiar with).
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4. Bob the Friendly Eidolon
And finally, aquarionical gives a Rule 7 thread a much-needed dose of humour and sense:
http://forums.rule7.co.uk/FindPost41313.aspx
You rock, Aquarion. :)