Piers Jones

links for 2008-03-19

Server farms running on wind power a professor at Cambridge University has the idea of locating big server farms near to sources of wind power as data is easier to transmit than electricity and will reduce carbon emissions.

Lessons for software development from a curry house those masters of 'less is more' at 37 signals wonder what would happen if you put Gordon Ramsay in charge of your software development.

The shedworking blog described as the lifestyle guide for shed workers, this blog has some rather nice sheds (if you like that kind of thing!)

Very easy widget creation with SpringWidgets

I've just tried setting up the SpringWidgets 'Express Widgets' service and it's incredibly easy to do.

You just go through the wizard and drop in the RSS feed for your site. The rest is very easy.

Here is the express Widget for this blog. I might add it to the sidebar. There are very easy resizing and formatting options, it's flash based.

Get this widget!