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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 10 – October 10, 2009 816 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 283 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How not to test that mysqld is alive

    7 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    Let's make the web faster

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

Show 10 more
  1. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

  2. Answers.OnStartups.com -- StackOverflow for startups

  3. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  4. Email Newsletters Are Serious Business

  5. Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors

  6. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  7. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

  8. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  9. Boston startup events, resources, people you need to know

  10. Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers

Sports 29 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

  2. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

Show 6 more
  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

  2. First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp

  3. The end of AI winter?

  4. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  5. 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

  6. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

Technology 609 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

  3. Using SVN makes your site extremely vulnerable

Show 9 more
  1. Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

  2. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

  3. How not to test that mysqld is alive

  4. Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

  5. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  6. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  7. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  8. When a co-founder dies

  9. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

  2. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

  2. Netflix's tail massage

  3. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  4. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  5. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

  6. Music Sales

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