Gittip – inspiring generosity

Gittip – inspiring generosity

WHAT IS GITTIP?

Gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by.

Gifts are weekly. The intention is for people to depend on money received through Gittip in order to pay their bills, and bills are recurring.

Gifts come with no strings attached. You don’t know exactly where your gifts come from, and the maximum gift from one person to another is $24.

Gifts are public. The total amount you give and the total amount you receive is public. Participants on both sides of the equation are rewarded publicly for their participation. (You can opt out of publicly displaying your total giving.)

JIF, not GIF

Mashable reports that Steve Wilhite, the inventor of GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), during the lifetime achievement ceremony insisted that it’s pronounced “JIF”, not “GIF”.

JIF, not GIF

 

[rant mode on]What?!  “GIF” is not “GIF, but “JIF”?  Non-sense!  It’s give, not jive.  Girls, not jirls.  Gift, not jift.  And even if he believes that that’s the correct way to pronounce it, how irresponsible is that to attract attention to this issue now?  It’s just like throwing a barrel of petrol into the pronunciation holy war flames of GNU, Gnome, Gimp, and other pillars of Open Source Software.[rant mode off]

Read the Docs – create, host, and browse documentation

Read the Docs – create, host, and browse documentation

Read the Docs hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar. We support webhooks so your docs get built when you commit code. There’s also support for versioning so you can build docs from tags and branches of your code in your repository.

Slim PHP framework

Slim PHP framework

FEATURES

  • Powerful router
    • Standard and custom HTTP methods
    • Route parameters with wildcards and conditions
    • Route redirect, halt, and pass
    • Route middleware
  • Template rendering with custom views
  • Flash messages
  • Secure cookies with AES-256 encryption
  • HTTP caching
  • Logging with custom log writers
  • Error handling and debugging
  • Middleware and hook architecture
  • Simple configuration

Product Management vs. Program Management at Microsoft

Product Management vs. Program Management at Microsoft

Product Management tends to be about answering questions such as why a product should be built and what features should be added to existing products. Program Management is more about answering questions such as when features should be delivered and how they should be exposed to customers. Depending on the division at Microsoft program managers may have more or less influence than product managers on answering the questions about what features are built.