March 2011
1 post
“If you believe that you’re going to leave and evacuate to somewhere else, then why do anything about this world? A proper view of heaven leads not to escape from the world, but to full engagement with it, all with the anticipation of a coming day when things are on earth as they currently are in heaven.” - Rob Bell, Love Wins
https://www.robbell.com/lovewins/
February 2011
2 posts
You haven’t been to Oklahoma until you’ve been to southeastern Oklahoma
Why it doesn't matter that the Motorola Xoom is...
Because there are other Android Honeycomb tablets coming out.
December 2010
3 posts
Easily Search and Find Google Bookmarks from...
A couple of days ago I posted an article on how to export your Delicious bookmarks and import them into Google bookmarks. I’ve been liking Google Bookmarks since I switched, albeit it’s only been a few days, but one thing that’s been somewhat frustrating is easily accessing them. I’ve figured out a way and it’s simple, watch the following video:
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Export Bookmarks from Delicious, Import into...
Simple but round-a-about way of getting your bookmarks out of Delicious and into Google Bookmarks.
Go to Delicious and sign in to your account, then go into Settings > Bookmarks Export. This will save an HTML file containing all your links.
Open Firefox (install if you don’t have, you can’t use Chrome to do this part). We’re going to be importing your Delicious bookmarks...
When discussions and planning take longer than implementation, something is off.
November 2010
1 post
Type Talk at Work
Me: He's an "F" too, isn't he?
Tony: Ugh. I don't know. This place is being overrun by F's.
Me: What? It is not!
Tony: It's like the zombie apocalypse, but with hugs.
September 2010
16 posts
“If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid. If you don’t ask a stupid...”
– Tony Rothman, Ph.D.U. Chicago, Physics
Android Lighting a Fire Under Apple
Competition is good… still don’t like how subjective they are with their App Store policies, but this stuff is a good leap in the right direction.
Apple’s keeping the ad eco-system in iOS “open”
Going to allow developing with other frameworks
Google Voice (or third-party version) possibly going to make an appearance?
Watching the Vikings v Saints on NBC's Silverlight...
High Scalability - High Scalability - How did... →
Wish we could just get a peak…
Bible App for Android gets updated! →
Amazon EC2 Micro Instances
Looks like this may be Amazon’s response to the likes of Rackspace’s cloud, where you can get VMs around $12/mo + bandwidth, which is about what one of these would cost per month, however these have more RAM at 613MB. Anyone try one out yet?
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/09/09/announcing-micro-instances-for-amazon-ec2/
pgmemcache
A PostgreSQL API based on libmemcached to interface with memcached… this thing looks promising.
Here are some reasons I’m excited about finding this:
Setup functions in Postgres that call the memcache methods
Set these up to perform on triggers, or just call them as needed at the application level
Use it to invalidate cache on the slave database server rather than when it’s...
1 tag
Nintendo Coffee Table →
Scaling Disqus - DjangoCon 2010
Some great info how Disqus scales their system to over 17,000 req/sec.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus
Notes: http://viewtext.org/?url=http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus
Hat tip to AJ Bourg for posting this on Twitter earlier.
Excerpt from Theo Schlossnagle’s tech talk:
Switch configurations should be in version control.
Router configurations should be in version control.
Firewall configurations should be in version control.
System configurations should be in version control.
Application configurations should be in version control.
Monitoring configurations should be in version control.
Documentation should be in...
1 tag
The Seven Secrets of Successful Data Scientists →
Where do you read the Bible? →
