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Written January 6, 2008 in punditry
I realize that Joyent is a good hosting company. I love good hosting companies. I know several apps that are well served by hosting there.
But every time I visit their homepage, I can’t help but blanch at seeing the sight of entire racks of Dell 2950s with their …
If you’re a fan of branching tree decision making like I am (While thinking, I consciously try to organize my thoughts as branching from one another…), then SevenSixFive’s discussion of branching is worth a read.
ReadWriteWeb spends a bunch of time pondering why TV-quality scripted video is failing on the web.
Here’s the answer: If it’s longer than five minutes, no one wants to stream it.
The solution: Either snip it into tiny little segments like webcomics (1-2 minutes per day, daily releases) so that people …
This is required reading for anyone who’s even thinking of offshoring some programming work. However, it’s not the entire story.
I’ve managed several offshore teams from here in the states for clients. There’s two ways the project can go: You can hire someone like me who speaks english and ‘programmer’, has enough of a business mindset to understand your business processes (because why would you write a program that implement’s someone else’s idea of how your business runs?) and has enough of a technical mindset to lay down the technical specifications. This is what the article above recommends. There’s more ways to do it … read on if you’d like to see a discussion of them.
My number 1 career mistake in IT was not looking at the way things were going and changing my skill set to match. I was working with PHP, and the environment went Perl::Mason. I was a Redhat admin, and they were going Debian. The guy who was the big Novell …
If V from violentacres did cross stitch, I think she would use the patterns from Subversive Cross Stitch.
I suspect that Media Matters has it backwards — the only ones who haven’t realized that the presidency is a joke are the candidates and Media Matters itself.
Ok, here’s another Seth Godin article that I disagree with: “The Wikipedia Gap.
Point 1: Wikipedia is not an expert source. While great strides are being made to clean it up and provide references, the fact still remains that anyone with an agenda can remake an article the way they …
Who’d a thunk it. B/CS as a hot area for tech startups? Nah, get real.
There’s a lot of dollars being bet to say you’re wrong. With Fibertown (which I keep misspelling “Fibretown” thanks to my predelection for British spellings), The Creative Space, Managed Network Solutions and others moving …
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