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The Software Millionaire Next Door 5 Jan 2013 | 03:32 am
I've been reading "The Millionaire Next Door" and have so far found it to be a pleasant book with a good message: don't waste your money on silly things and appearance (fancy suits, fancy cars, expens...
The Dreaded Google Lockdown 17 Oct 2012 | 12:39 am
It's one of those things that you read about, but are never really sure about: you think "maybe he was doing something fishy, and isn't tellling it straight in the public account of the incident". So...
Fast, Light and Asynchronous 10 Oct 2012 | 01:16 am
I am a big fan of Ruby on Rails: it does a lot of things, and it does most of them pretty well. When starting a new web project, it's the first thing I would reach for: most of the time, your problem...
Small Town Google Pollution 29 Aug 2012 | 01:57 am
There are so many sites trying to vie for Google results for any and every town in existance in the United States that they are crowding out useful information. They get their list of towns from cens...
Simple phone alerts with Gmail and Android 18 Aug 2012 | 07:34 pm
I have some long running server processes that I am going to launch soonish, and I want to be alerted when they're done. Using Gmail and Android, it's pretty easy: In Gmail, set up a new label, "Ale...
Up for Auction: LinuxSi.com 17 May 2012 | 09:05 am
A number of years back, I read yet another complaint about someone having trouble finding a computer with Linux preinstalled. So I did something about it: I created LinuxSi.com, where it is possible ...
Mr. Blank, we're outside the building, and we want eBooks! 14 Apr 2012 | 09:02 am
Steve Blank is known for his teachings on the Silicon Valley type of entrepreneurship, with his ideas forming the basis for the "lean startup movement" amongst other things. He writes frequently on e...
I'm not good enough to work on open source software 23 Mar 2012 | 12:57 am
Actually, that's not true - I've produced plenty of open source software over the years. However, in a sense, it is true: only the very best actually get paid to work on open source software ...
BikeChatter.com for sale 7 Feb 2012 | 01:02 am
What with two kids, a new house, and LiberWriter getting some good traction, I've been looking around for things to give to a good home so as to have less stuff to deal with. So, on the auction b...
Thinking at the Margin 22 Jan 2012 | 01:44 pm
Something I've picked up from reading about economics is the concept of "the margin". It's a way of thinking about problems that more people ought to take into consideration. What is "the ma...
