Product Camp Boston: Register Today

Registration just opened for Product Camp Boston. The focus is on product management, the difficult and under-appreciated art of figuring out "what to build", not just "how to build it." It's an O'Reilly-style "un-conference", which means that the content will be organized on the spot according to interest. It also has the advantage of being free. I attended the 2009 camp and learned a lot. Let me know if you'll be there.

Liberate Your Data

I discovered a cool tool today which might interest my SDM colleagues: Liberate your Google Groups site! Many of us use Google Groups to coordinate our ad-hoc teams. But how do you preserve your team's work for posterity? The liberation tool exports the entire site to a local directory on your machine. Finally - my entire education on a (surprisingly small) flash drive.

I still have most of my course bibles from my undergrad days. It's a real relief to transform these into a more-portable form.