I had to dig the depths of the internet to find this great tutorial: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/ubuntu/2a_UbuntuInWindows_VMware_e.htmlThanks, Eric Keller.Now I will blog about my Ubuntu experience once I can get it installed on VMware. I was able to install it straight-up on my old Thinkpad A20p, but I realized that I didn’t want to carry around a [...]
March 14, 2007 – 10:42 pm
Great article on how MySpace managed their growth and scaling issues: http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.aspI am trying to manage a similar scale-up, not quite at the scale as MySpace, but with its own unique challenges. So far I’ve found the resources on the web for serious web high-performance architecture are lacking, but I often find gems like the [...]
February 27, 2007 – 9:17 pm
We are looking into alternative database platforms (for us, alternative to SQL Server 2005), and we came across PostgreSQL. Back in the day when I used to do much more development using open-source platforms, I used MySql, and was frankly never impressed. However, PostgreSQL really shines, especially for someone used to working with Microsoft tools.The [...]
February 26, 2007 – 3:52 am
These are some funny clips from Saturday Night Live of Rainn Wilson. Teaser clips plus the opening monologue, where Rainn pokes fun at The Office (its totally DAWESOME). From the Rainn Wilson fansite. read more | digg story
February 22, 2007 – 5:21 am
TechCrunch is reporting this now, but we worked with the folks at Google on this launch. Kudos to them for putting together a well-made and affordable productivity product for businesses large and small. We are excited to work on custom implementations of Google Apps.read more | digg story
This site has tons of direct jobs, no more recruiters.read more | digg story
February 6, 2006 – 5:15 am
Looks like Analytics (formerly Urchin) is down again.
Also reported here: http://www.bloggerpreneur.com/archives/18Google: I signed up for Urchin, and I expected to pay for, so I would have quality, reliable service.
Now its free, but seems to go down whenever it feels like it — and since no one is paying anymore, there seems to be no [...]
January 12, 2006 – 4:34 pm
There has been alot of talk about SimplyHired and Indeed in the blogosphere. There is another job search engine out there called GetTheJob. It is really fast and has jobs directly from employers.
Worth a look, especially for tech jobs
I know I am probably really late to the game in commenting on this.
For example, a google search reveals that these blogs (just a sampling) have beating this to death: [1] [2] [3]
(Google: Results 11 - 20 of about 44,500 for team foundation server pricing sucks. wow)
Anyhoo, I am more concerned about what [...]
February 22, 2005 – 4:20 pm
Ever since .NET came out and the practicality and advantages of OO programming became available in a straightforward, elegant language like C#, I have been bouncing back and forth between using DataSets as a psuedo-business objects or writing full-fledged objects. I’ve sinced stopped bouncing, my headache is gone, and I am ready to [...]
