Pam at Escape from Cubicle Nation has a great post on how relationships with those you know may change as you shift from corporate to entrepreneur. I have to agree – I experienced some of those shifts as well. It not only revealed to me how settled I had become in my previous role by [...]
I have a Dell PowerEdge that I wanted to convert into a one server lab using VMWare. Being a Gentoo fan, I thought first about using it to power the VMWare server host, but opted to give Ubuntu Edgy a try first. It went pretty smooth and so far I am pleased with the results. [...]
WP-Referstat is an add-on to the popular WP-ShortStat by Jeff Minard. It came from my need to view more details about incoming referrers than what is made available in the ShortStat tab. In addition, the plugin also supports Snap Preview Anywhere (“SPA”) if the SPA WordPress plugin is installed. You can find out more by [...]
Jeff Schneider, the CEO of MomentumSI, my friend, and my partner during a 2001 startup just completed an interview regarding SOA goverance. Enjoy! [tags]SOA, SOA Governance, MomentumSI[/tags]
There has been quite a discussion around the development of concurrent applications for multi-core processors. This meme is interesting to me since I just wrapped up a project where I architected a system that processes high volumes of data (~10TB) using a Java-based distributed computing solution. While many of the posts are related to the [...]
Jay Fields of ThoughtWorks has started a great series on Domain Specific Languages, and specifically, Business Natural Languages. The post I am particularly fond of is “BNL 03 – The Solution”, where he demonstrates how to take a BNL with the following format: apply bonus of the total profit times one percent if the current [...]
I have to admit, Apple is really learning how to market successfully to developers. Think about how we all felt about Mac a few years ago (“Mac is for graphic designers”) vs. today. While Microsoft has been busy trying to earn back our trust, Apple has been continuing to follow the Guy Kawasaki marketing pattern [...]
The consulting company that I work for, MomentumSI, has published an article on SysCon’s Enterprise OpenSource Magazine entitled “Bringing Ruby to the Enterprise.” Brad, along with a few Ruby consultants like myself, combined our experience and research to let enterprises know that Ruby and Rails can provide a competitive advantage in many situations. Let us [...]
Bruce Tate has an interesting post titled “An Alternate Means of Propultion”, where he discusses ways to find multipliers to make your business and your team more productive. He discusses three ways to find multipliers: Team size – Want to supercharge your productivity? Go from large teams to small. Can’t find enough talent? Pay more. [...]
Dave Thomas, that Pragmatic Programmer and Ruby Guy, is coming to Austin on Thursday, July 6th from 7-9pm. More information can be found at the Austin on Rails website. Drop me a note if you are going so we can meet up.
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