TechCrunch is down

November 1, 2006

Looks like TechCrunch is down because the MySQL database server is either down or inaccessible. Mike really should look into VIP Hosting at WordPress.com.

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Save Baby Gavin

October 30, 2006

I apologize as this is a little off-topic for this blog but I wanted to bring as much attention as I could to the Save Baby Gavin website and blog. My wife's cousin Jill has a beautiful little boy named Gavin. Gavin was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney [...]

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OpenDNS Rocks

October 18, 2006

I first discovered OpenDNS on Chris Pirillio's blog – OpenDNS is a free service that is designed to make your Internet browsing faster, safer and smarter. And guess what - it does that. OpenDNS is essentially a set of massive distributed DNS caches that allow faster name resolution and yet obey the TTL rules for [...]

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Pictobrowser Rocks

October 9, 2006

Just found the Pictobrowser from Thomas Hawk's blog and it is an amazing way to embed pictures in your blog. Pictobrowser is a simple widget that allows you to display sets of pictures from Flickr directly on your site or blog using Flash and the users never leave your site. Pictobrowser is the brainchild of [...]

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Essential Software for Windows

September 23, 2006

You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can’t seem [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2006

September 20, 2006

Geek Smithology – The State of Enterprise Ruby The real takeaway is that if you truly believe in using the best tool for the job, then you will be using Ruby at some point in the future. (tags: rails Ruby Enterprise dave+thomas scalability) StorageMojo – Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt I Unlike Goole�s clean [...]

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Amazon Unbox Video – More of the same

September 10, 2006

Amazon launched their latest offering entitled Unbox Video which is essentially a video (TV shows, movies, etc) download to buy or rent service. Rumor is that Amazon rushed this out on Friday, September 8th to beat some super secret announcement coming from Apple later next week. The Unbox video service doesn’t offer anything new and [...]

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Amazon EC2 and S3 – Implications for the Enterprise

September 3, 2006

Now that the blogosphere has settled down after the launch of Amazon’s EC2 beta program, I figured it was time to talk about something that I found missing in all the blogs and online discussions. Before we get to the Enterprise implication of EC2 and S3, I should probably let the people that haven’t heard [...]

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Subversion & Proxy Servers

August 22, 2006

Is there a known issue with Subversion and proxy servers? I guess I should have run into this years ago but I don’t ever remember having an issue. I just got a new laptop with a fresh install of Windows XP and connection out to the Internet is using a Squid proxy server. When I [...]

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Webinar> Spring Framework in WebLogic Server 9.2

August 16, 2006

BEA is hosting a webinar on September 20, which will discuss the existing integration points between WebLogic Server and Spring and what is coming down the pipe for Spring 2.0, WebLogic Server 9.2 and beyond. The webinar will also discuss new technologies introduced with WebLogic 9.2 that support the use of the Spring Framework and [...]

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