Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Hmm, just finished the update to the latest version of Safari. Afterwards, I was doing some work and then everything suddenly froze. A few seconds later a screen came up saying that I would have to hold down the power button to restart my laptop. Upon rebooting it asked to ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
One of the main reasons I was interested in upgrading my Macs to 10.5 was the inclusion of Spaces. I've been working with virtual desktops on Linux for years. I've gotten so used to being able to partition applications by logical group, what I was doing, that I've found working ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Since I'm on the waiting list for Google's AppEngine, all of the buzz got me thinking about how the cloud computing realization could augment the projects that I'm currently working on. After doing some homework on what was available out there it actually appears that Amazon's EC2 is better suited ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
So I've finally taken the plunge and signed up for one of the cloud computing services. The main reason why I chose Google's was because it offered a free trial to see how my applications would integrate. I know Amazon's is really cheap, but you don't have any money coming ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I've been really busy the last month as my Company, JBM Labs, has finally gotten going. JBM Labs is focusing on bringing tech consulting to small companies. It's been a really exciting ride so far. It's very different work than the 9-5 work I had been doing since 2000. So ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Nice, it looks like Craigslist is now offering the full text of their posts in the RSS feeds. For the last several years I've kept the job postings for the bay area in my feed reader to keep track of the pulse of the tech industry. Its easy to see ...
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