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01 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

April Fools Roundup

I just had a blast catching up on RSS feeds over lunch – except I couldn’t tell what news was real and what was fake.
Here are some of my favorites from today, and a few from the past. The funniest ones are in bold.

SQL on Rails (you must watch the screencast)
The Commentator – automatically [...]

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10 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Continuous Integration – is Continuous Production Reasonable?

Andy Glover has a great post about not only continuous integration (the act of having your code base automatically built and tested whenever you commit any changes to it), but continuous production – having your code able to be deployed to production basically at the drop of a hat without manual intervention at any time.
He [...]

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08 February 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Doctor, my picture frame has a virus

Who would have thought that a picture frame could ever be infected with a virus?
We got a very nice frame as a gift this Christmas, and it turns out it’s not feeling so well.
Go figure. Does this mean I need to by McAfee Virus Scan Photoframe Edition?

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16 January 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Sun Acquires MySQL, Oracle Acquires BEA

Here’s some pretty big news:
* Sun just acquired MySQL – about 1 billion bucks – maybe now Sun will change its stock ticker to MYSQL?
* Oracle just acquired BEA – 8.5 billion bucks

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13 January 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Jon’s Blog Moved and New SendAlong Blog Added

Quick update:
I’ve moved my personal blog from SendAlong’s domain over to the Juliesoft.com domain. The blog located at sendalong.com/blog is now the “official” SendAlong blog – it will cover product updates and such for SendAlong.
As long as you’re seeing this post in your RSS reader, you’re already subscribed to the new address for Jon’s [...]

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20 December 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Obligatory “Predictions for 2008″ Post

I’ve only got a couple, mainly b/c I find the someone predicts, the more chance they have of being wrong:).

1. The Scala language will get more and more popular – it’s not a fad. I haven’t written a line of it, but man it looks good.
2. Apple will continue to do well, especially in [...]

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04 December 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Video Games in 3D

Slightly off topic, but…
With the recent release of Beowulf in 3D (the good kind, not the kind that makes you sick after watching), one can only be left to wonder: when will 3D make its way to videogames? People are talking up 3D as Hollywood’s Next Big Thing – if you’ve never seen a [...]

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14 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Gmail is FAST in Safari (on Windows)

I say on Windows because I don’t know if it’s fast on the Mac version. Anywho, I’m one of those people that has Gmail open all day long and do a lot of email, and I’ve noticed that Firefox, unlike its old fast self, has been rather slow as of late. I’ve been [...]

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06 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

How to Write for Wired Magazine

After reading a few issues of Wired, I’ve developed a basic formula that is all but certain to get your articles published in this high quality periodical:

Use the word “meatspace” at least once in your article.
Include a quote of someone dropping the F-bomb. Put it near the end of the article to give the [...]

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29 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Can I Get a Slice of that Pie?

My goodness. Who would have thought 10 years ago that $57,000,000.00 could be generated in one year from a little search box in the top corner of a browser?
Oh, I guess they did.

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