August 2010
1 post
Selling on OpenSky →
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup called OpenSky since February 2010. We’ve launched a new ecommerce platform and aim to reinvent…
May 2010
3 posts
Companies don’t give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
– Jack Welsh
April 2010
1 post
Next Gen PHP Frameworks →
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. Specifically the addition of Late Static Bindings, Lambda Functions and Closures, and Namespaces has changed…
March 2010
7 posts
Finding The Right People →
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Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. Over the course of my career I have interviewed…
Finding The Right People →
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Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. Over the course of my career I have interviewed…
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will...
Transitions →
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. I am leading the architecture, development and technology. It’s rare in life that one has…
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
— Dr....
VIM Crash Course →
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Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, unaware of the power and beauty of vim. One of my developers has…
VIM Crash Course →
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Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, unaware of the power and beauty of vim. One of my developers has…
February 2010
5 posts
You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that...
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...
It’s much easier to look for a lost key under the light, than to look for the...
– Rafi Sela, on how to fix airport security. (via bobthecow)
Unix Jobs Management →
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Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs in unix. The following will explain how to run tasks in the…
Unix Jobs Management →
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Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs in unix. The following will explain how to run tasks in the…
January 2010
40 posts
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal....
All I ask of you, especially young people … is one thing. Please...
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012200715.html
human readable du sorted by size →
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du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given directory is taking up. GNU du introduced a handy…
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3) →
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Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the Content Delivery Network or CDN. Cloudfront is…
Using the right keys →
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Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom in the hall for the entire floor. In this…
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3) →
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Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the Content Delivery Network or CDN. Cloudfront is…
Using the right keys →
Image by HeyThereSpaceman. via Flickr
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom in the hall for the entire floor. In this…
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have....
SOAP vs. REST →
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Someone asked me a question today “Why would anyone choose SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) instead of REST (Representational State…
My Online Business Card (vCard) →
I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a project that I’ve been wanted to do for a while anyway, my own identity site, or my online…
Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and... →
(via technicalpicklejar)
it’s important to have a strategy that builds value *around* community...
– http://twitter.com/mjasay/status/7674553868
My Online Business Card (vCard) →
I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a project that I’ve been wanted to do for a while anyway, my own identity site, or my online…
We are not the executors of orders, rather a source of innovation. We gather...
Best 15 Zelda Songs →
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to...
In PHP, arrays are the duct tape of the universe
– Hidden Features of PHP? - Stack Overflow (via hagwaar) (via jou)
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.- Walt Disney
Our greatest glory is not from never falling, but in getting up every time we...
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor...
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble...
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime...