http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ en-us blog@dapkus.com 2006-11-09T20:57:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2006/11/zero_tolerance_manifesto.html Based on some conversations at my present job, I decided to write up what I learned during my time at BEA. These are the things it takes to keep a large development team productive. It only really works when these... 210@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Software Development 2006-11-09T20:57:23-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2006/07/declining_cost_of_production.html I went through a phase of reading books that related economics to biology. If you think about it, when you've got a really good theory of economics, it should help you explain the things we observe in nature (animal behavior,... 198@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Business 2006-07-17T12:23:27-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2005/05/the_fed_starts_backing_down_he.html From the Wall Street Journal: The Fed Starts to Show Concern Over Bubble. For a long time, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dismissed suggestions that the U.S. was in the early stages of a housing bubble. He talked about the... 80@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2005-05-21T12:38:19-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2005/05/wikipedia_is_becoming_the_sour.html From John Battelle's Searchblog: Wikipedia and Search A nice piece penned by Max Kalehoff. A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search engines placed Wikipedia at 146 in June 2004. But... 79@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Technology 2005-05-21T11:00:31-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2005/05/anybody_need_an_agent.html The LA Times ran A Glut in the Market for Homes last week, an article about how much interest in being a real estate agent has surged. More than 22,000 applicants took the state's real estate exam in April, nearly... 78@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2005-05-21T09:29:08-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2005/05/not_the_formula_for_business_s.html There are a number of really great books about business strategy and the challenges of managment for high tech company (e.g. Crossing the Chasm, Innovator's Dilemma, etc). What makes them great is that they provide a theory of business --... 77@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Business 2005-05-16T16:19:04-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2005/05/infested.html hm. I'm thinking about dusting off my blog and firing it back up. It's become completely infested with comment / trackback spam. Guess I'll have to rebuild it (better, stronger, faster).... 76@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2005-05-16T11:20:37-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/10/the_long_tail_whips_p2p.html I followed a link from Due Dilligence to an excellent article in Wired on how media-based business (music, books, movies, etc) is fundamentally transformed by the ability to keep *everything* in stock and deliver it for almost nothing. When you... 75@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ 2004-10-15T14:16:54-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/09/wsj_coastal_homeowners_are_now.html WSJ.com has an article about coastal homeowners cashing out and using their profits to buy less expensive houses outright in less expensive markets. Is it time to take profits on the real-estate boom? The huge rise in prices in thriving... 73@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2004-09-27T22:07:59-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/09/googles_do_no_evil.html People make fun of Google's "do no evil" motto. But, in their case, its not just ethics but good business. Google lives and dies by the good will of its users and customers -- none of whom have, in a... 72@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Business 2004-09-10T14:05:33-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/09/ok_now_you_know_theres_trouble.html Thanks to a Web Alert over at Google, I've been reading just about every article printed on housing prices in the Bay Area. After you've read a dozen or so, you begin to see a pattern -- an economist will... 71@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2004-09-01T13:56:28-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/08/a_new_blog_to_watch.html My friend Chris Fry has finally setup a blog. I am looking to forward to seeing some interesting content on XML and Web Services from the front line.... 70@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ 2004-08-26T15:33:37-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/08/burnt_feed.html I've updated the made feed on this site to use Feedburner -- mostly to see what the service could do for me. Seems like a neat idea, but none of the current features seem like "must have" things.... 68@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Technology 2004-08-24T23:10:50-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/03/zero_down_mortgages.html You have to know, right now, at many banks, they are going to great lengths to get your mortgage business -- the low interest rates present a great opportunity to grab up customers from other banks through re-financing and bring... 62@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Bay Area Housing 2004-03-30T10:43:28-08:00 http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/2004/03/thought_provoking_discussion_o.html Chris Allen, over at Life with Alacrity has posted a thought provoking discussion of group size. The post takes the Dunbar Number (i.e. the upper bounds on human groups is about 150) as it's starting point and considers the affect... 60@http://www.dapkus.com/blogs/rosewater/ Business 2004-03-11T15:05:27-08:00