As I approach nearly 18 months of unemployment (save for 1 6-week gig in the middle there), I guess I should write a blog entry. What the hell have I been doing in that time?
After I quit my job in Boulder, I went on a 6-week road trip around the country. Starting in Colorado, I headed east through Kansas, Missouri, down to Tennessee and Alabama, over to Georgia, up the eastern states to Virginia, back west through Ohio, up to Michigan, over to Wisconsin (via the UP), then …
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…same questions for six years now. I'm going to try to pass off L1 support to a VA in 2013. I probably should have done this 5 years ago.
Appointment Reminder
Appointment Reminder does appointment reminding phone calls, text messages, and emails to customers of professional services businesses. I launched it in December of 2010, so it is just turning 2 years old right now. I go back and forth on whether I want it to be the Next Big Thing for me. Since I want to keep …
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Salt Lake City Virginia
Richmond Washington:
Walla Walla Wisconsin:
Outside the United States Argentina:
Buenos Aires Australia:
Ultimo, NSW Austria:
Vienna Bahrain:
Bahrain Barbados:
Bridgetown Bermuda:
Hamilton Brazil:
Porto Alegre …
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Rodrigo Campos shared some interesting benchmark results for AWS instances in the South America Region ( São Paulo) and US East Region ( North Virginia). He summarized the results in this thread on the Guerrilla Capacity Planning list:
…with a bit of bad judgment who loved computers and was headed to the University of Virginia, most likely not a life as a career criminal. So the case was dismissed for the cost of lawyer's fees. Which, for the record, I had to pay myself, using my income as a Safeway cashier.
This was definitely a wake up call for me; in the summer of 1988, I was about to graduate from high school, and I thought I'd try being just a regular guy at college, with less of an obsessive focus on computers …
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…market now are TN. You can opt to pay a little bit more for one of the few models with * VA - if there are any available in the size you want. *-IPS is widely considered the best all around LCD display technology , but it is rapidly being pushed into the vertical "pro" graphics designer market due to the big jump in price. It's usually not an option, unless you're willing to pay more than twice as much for a monitor.
But when the $ 499 iPad 3 delivers an amazingly high …
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This is a photo of a photojournalist taking pictures at the scene of the recent F-18 crash in Virginia. She's got at least 2 SLR-type cameras and 3 telephoto lenses that we can see, but in the photo, she's taking a picture with a mobile phone, leading to the funny meme caption.
With all those fancy cameras at her disposal, why is she taking pictures with a phone? Probably because it can do what her cameras can't: quickly send a photo, whether it's to the news organization …
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…WHOIS interface, the .ES TLD provides a private WHOIS interface while the . VA TLD doesn't provide any WHOIS interface. It means there's no way to get information about a . VA domain.
The WHOIS protocol is a TCP-based protocol designed to work on the port 43. This makes extremely difficult to perform a WHOIS query from a browser without relying on a server-side third party tool. In fact, client side JavaScript is not able to perform socket requests on port 43.
Because …
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…Regions -- today Netflix serves traffic out of two AWS Regions, one in Virginia, the other in Ireland ( F1 ). Both of these transitions have been successful, but have involved integration pain points such as the creation of database replication technology.
In December 2011, I moved to LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems ( DDS ) team. DDS develops data infrastructure, including but not limited to, NoSQL databases and data replication systems. LinkedIn, no stranger …
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…Roy will be sharing what we feel is the right way to structure front-end code, using the HTML5 document outline, Sass & CoffeeScript, for pain free development. You can attend these presentations at wroc_love.rb ( Wrocław, Poland, March 10-11) or at RubyNation ( Reston, VA, USA, March 23-24).
Say "hi" if you're there!
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