Steve Blank new 'Lean Startup' book not available as ebook

Steve Blank is famous as part of the “Lean Startup” / “Customer Development” idea of growing a business (and if you are in publishing and don’t know about these concepts, google them and learn because someone who does is about to eat your business…) He was scheduled to start a new ‘Lean Launchpad’ course at Stanford this month, available free over the Internet. But he’s postponed it for two months to rewrite the course based on his new book “The Startup Owner’s Manual”, available next month.

Minor gotcha with Liza Daly's fast_iter

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-hiperfparse This is a really useful article about “High-performance XML parsing in Python with lxml”. But there’s one gotcha I’ve discovered with the fast_iter() method described therein. Can’t comment on that website without getting yet another developer ID, so I’ll describe the issue here and hope that Google picks it up. The problem comes with nested tags with the same name. For example: <product> <data> <product>Some useful data</product> </data> </product>

Stop Telling Everyone To Do Startups - Tell Them to Not Do It!

As a woman who has run a startup, I’m confused by the furore about Penelope Trunk’s article “Stop Telling Women To Do Startups”. I’d encourage anyone to think about working for themselves; I’ve found it on the whole more fun and better paid than working for others, you certainly have a closer idea of when your employer (= you) is going to run out of money and stop paying you…

Query 'SHOW PROCESSLIST'

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST; gives the same info (in recent MySqls) and can be filtered;

HOWTO: setup a new remote git branch

Git
on local machine, create the branch git branch mynewbranch push to remote git push origin mynewbranch remove local branch git branch -d mynewbranch pull down new remote branch git checkout -b mynewbranch origin/mynewbranch For any other nodes which need this branch: git fetch origin git checkout -b mynewbranch origin/mynewbranch Based on http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html, which has the clearest explanation I’ve seen.

MBR problem solved

I’ve got one machine with a totally screwed MBR. Booted into Ubuntu LiveCD, mounted main partition. Reinstalled grub. Working. Phew. mount /dev/sda7 /media/maverick grub-install --root-directory=/media/maverick /dev/sda reboot