Matt Wensing from Stormpulse (disclaimer: I'm an investor, long story below) generously took some time off of managing the nation's severe weather risks to appear on our podcast. ( Keith Perhac couldn't be with us when we taped this, as he was celebrating the birth of his second daughter.) It's been about six months since our last episode but I think this probably makes up for it, as it's a cracker of an episode.
- MySQL Performance Blog: Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit
- Comments on: blog: Bingo Card Creator (& etc) Year In Review 2010: MicroISV on a Shoestring
- Software by Rob: Crowdsourcing Your Product Name
- Lessons Learned: Workshop: The Lean Entrepreneur with Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits
- Article RSS Feed: June 2009 Meeting
- New Relic: Community News: Regaining Control of CDNs and DevOps Best Practices
…Surface RT tablets. Here they are, listed alongside similarly-priced iPads: Surface Model Price Similarly-priced iPad Price 32 GB, no " Touch Cover" (cover with touch-sensitive keyboard) $ 499 16 GB Wifi-only New iPad / 16GB Wifi + 3G iPad 2 $ 519 / $ 549 32 GB with " Touch Cover" $ 599 32 GB Wifi-only New iPad / 16GB Wifi + 3G New iPad $ 619 / $ 649 64 GB with " Touch Cover" $ 699 64 GB Wifi-only New iPad / 64GB Wifi + 3G New iPad…
NYT bestselling author Ramit Sethi and I continued our earlier discussion about getting your first consulting client by addressing a common pain point for freelancers/consultants, particularly those just starting out: how do you price your offering?
If you want me to tell you "You're a Rails developer? $ 100 an hour if in Iowa, $ 150 an hour if in SOMA, best of luck" you're in the wrong place, because you should have learned in our previous installment …
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- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 011: ActsAsTaggable Plugin
- Comments on: blog: Bingo Card Creator (& etc) Year In Review 2010: MicroISV on a Shoestring
- Phusion Corporate Blog: A gentle introduction to MacRuby
- Opscode Blog: Chef Advanced Training in Gent
- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-03-26
…techniques for selecting the suitable flash-storage technology for the relevant MySQL workloads
Price/performance advantages ( ROI) when flash storage is used appropriately for MySQL workloads
Approaches for scaling MySQL instances on fewer servers while delivering optimal performance using flash drives
The registration is free and available there . Hope to see you on the webinar!
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- Sam Ruby: Snow Leopard
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- Intridea - Company Blog: MongoDC Recap
- OnRails.org: Moving (again) http://onrails.org from Heroku to EC2
- paperplanes: The Virtues of Monitoring
Winter appears to finally be visiting for a few days.
Modernizr 2.5: Supercharged for 2012 - Lots of changes in this tool that helps figure out the capabilities of your users' browsers - and work around missing features.
Amazon S3 Price Reduction - Lower prices are always nice. Wonder how long before someone files a restraint of trade lawsuit against Amazon though.
If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong - A moderately entertaining rant.
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Big Bang
- Mike Perham: Sidekiq - simple, efficient messaging for Rails
50 x Full Price tickets at £15
Your total possible revenue is (50 * £10) + (50 * £15) = £1250, which covers your costs nicely.
Now, if you decided that abandoning Early Bird meant that you were compelled to charge every ticket at full price, your total revenue is now (100 * £15) = £1500, or £250 more. But - and again, this is an assumption - you only really needed £1250.
Now, you could certainly make an argument that the extra £250 could be used to make the conference better (for …
- interblah.net: Ticketgate
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Charity Tutorial Details
- Blog - James Mead: Mocha Release 0.9.9
- tekin.co.uk - Ruby on Rails developer, Tekin Suleyman, Manchester UK: Rails gets some engines love
- Luke Redpath: Remote pair-programming using iChat
For The Price Of N Cups of Coffee ...
To illustrate the various concepts, we'll create a simulator application to figure out how we can tweak our coffee consumption habits to save a given amount of money over a period of time.
Note: You can try the app at: savings-goal-simulator.heroku.com and inspect / play with it in Firebug. The full source is also available on Github under techarch / savings-goal-simulator .
Building Our App Step-By-Step
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- Signal vs. Noise: Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Sydney, SF, Seattle, DC, etc.
- PeepCode Products: iPhone Views I
- Plataformatec Blog: Devise: flexible authentication solution for Rails
- Wynn Netherland: Link LinkedIn into your next Ruby application
- Positive Incline: PathTo for Python gets a JSON-capable HTTP client
…CPU allocation of the server. Server Type RAM ( MB) Disk (GB) CPU cores Price per hour Nano 512 20 2 £0.025 Mini 1024 40 4 £0.05 Small 2048 80 4 £0.10 Medium 4096 160 8 £0.20 Large 8192 320 8 £0.40
Load Balancers are billed by the hour. Internet data in and out of Load Balancers is billed at the normal price. Each Load Balancer is highly available within a Region - designed to tolerate the loss of an entire Zone. Each Load Balancer supports multiple …
…return result; } } This requires us to create some sort of factory method to decide which Price to create based on the Movie type (such as newPrice in the example). Usually this occurs in a static method with a switch statement on type. In a large program where Price is used multiple times, this is an advantage because we only have to change the one switch statement. But what if we could get rid of that switch statement also?
If you are using Spring, you can take advantage of the …
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- How Software is Built: Jason van Zyl - Apache Maven
- Signal vs. Noise: AT&T Pricing Legend
- Developing with Style: Screencast: How to use CakePHP Database Migrations
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: testing named scopes
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Free Python screencast about solving mazes
…chance. I took funding from Hummer Windblad, solely because I met a guy named Will Price, who is now the CEO of Widgetbox.
I was lucky that I found him. He gave me a tremendous amount of advice related to starting and structuring a business. He told me that at some point in my life, I may be able to run the company by myself, but that I should not make the mistake of thinking that I understood what I needed to know initially.
If you're good at technology, you probably can learn …
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