Sysadmins are Dead. Long live Devops!
You’re starting a company, or you’re managing and IT department. Someone needs to keep the lights on, so you look to hire a Sysadmin, or a managed service provider (which is just a bunch of sysadmins...
View ArticleHow to Live Forever
The other day I was speaking with an acquaintance who’s grandfather had recently passed away. Most people have trouble talking about the subject, and all while the subject is generally sad, this story...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Building on Someone Else’s Platform
Sometimes we hear about how M&A is the new R&D. Sometimes I wonder if Embrace & Extend is the new R&D. A lot of startup business models involve building products that fill gaps in...
View ArticleClouds and The Fate of the Help Desk
As an efficiency nut there’s one thing that makes me really happy about Tablets: The Help Desk will be going away. It’s important to understand the meaning of the term “Help Desk”. I don’t just mean...
View ArticleThis man is my Hero
Yvon Chouinard has got a pretty amazing story. This video is him speaking at UC Santa Barbara about turning Patagonia into a more sustainable business.
View ArticleMobilicity Launches… on GoDaddy
Mobilicity, a new mobile phone carrier is launching in Canada on May 15th, 2010. Starting in Toronto, then covering other major cities like Vancouver, and Montreal, the service is competitively priced...
View ArticleLayerboom Acquired by Joyent!
I’m happy to announce that my company Layerboom has been acquired by Joyent, a leading provider of Cloud Computing services and solutions. Here’s the press announcement. Layerboom & Cloud...
View ArticleHow to learn Node.js from Scratch
Server-side Javascript has appealed to me for quite a awhile, and while watching from the sidelines was interesting, I still never had the time to really get my feet wet and see how the language really...
View ArticleHow to do Prototype Validation in Javascript
I hacked together a quick model for a prototype REST API written in Node.js, and wanted to validate an object prior to saving it to a database. I didn’t want or need some wacky full blown ORM but I did...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Intrapreneur
I read a rather harsh criticism on Hacker News today about “Intrapreneurs”. The Intrapreneur is an “Internal Entrepreneur” who starts up new projects, ideas, etc, but from within an established...
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