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What’s in your honey, honey?

I just read this fascinating article from Food Safety News about honey. I had no idea that honey was such a dirty business! Apparently over 75% of honey sold in US grocery stores isn’t strictly “honey”. It’s been “ultra-filtered”, a process that removes the natural pollen from the honey. A process whose only purpose appears [...]

9 November 2011 at 18:56 - Comments
Dennis
Being able to determine the origin of foods is rather important, as articles like this make clear: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15618700 I found an ...
13 November 11 at 10:58

Kanban

I was browsing a list of tools and services for a lean startup a couple of days ago, when I noticed that many of tools implement a Kanban methodology. I had never heard of Kanban, so I took a quite trip over to Wikipedia.

9 November 2011 at 14:08 - Comments
Dennis
Kanban rocks! Headline points 1. and 2. are sufficient reasons to use it. I like Confluence Greenhopper, which integrates with Jira, ...
9 November 11 at 16:53
brett
Huh, I'll have to give that a try!
10 November 11 at 15:00

Funding a start-up company

I’ve been doing a lot of research into running a start-up recently, and a name that always pops up is Paul Graham. He runs the Y Combinator, an early-stage venture funding company, and has written an extremely informative article on funding your start-up. I love the analogy he gives about how the different stages of [...]

8 November 2009 at 20:34 - Comments