Month: January 2006

Quick ZFS links update. Following up from my last mention of ZFS There is the opensolaris welcome page The place where you can read what it is There are lists of docs And a pdf slide presentation from Jeff Bonwick that should make it difficult to keep your jaw from dropping open. Completely assuming of… Continue reading Quick ZFS links update

Moving forward with microformats. If I were near Sandy, Utah, I'd love to attend the Asterisk users group meeting that Phil Windley mentions today. It would be fascinating to learn more about what people are doing with that open source PBX. Phil's announcement was interesting for another reason too. He's using microformats to transmit structured… Continue reading Moving forward with microformats

8 Years, 8 Observations, and 8 Goals. I’ve been running Tornado for eight full years now (in our 9th year). Every time I celebrate a New Years day I think to myself how amazing it is I’m still doing it. Why haven’t I quit yet? Believe me. The temptation has been there before. Right now… Continue reading 8 Years, 8 Observations, and 8 Goals

Paul Thurrott on Google Pack: “This bizarre collection of applications, each with its own distinct user interface, level of quality, and method of updating, actually does more to credit Microsoft's integration strategy than it does to prove the notion that Google knows anything about creating software.” [Scripting News]

So what tools do you use?. So a bit back I asked what tools that SBSers should have on hand and here are some answers… [E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]

RAID-Z. The original promise of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) was that it would provide fast, reliable storage using cheap disks. The key point was cheap; yet somehow we ended up here. Why? RAID-5 (and other data/parity schemes such as RAID-4, RAID-6, even-odd, and Row Diagonal Parity) never quite delivered on the RAID promise… Continue reading RAID-Z

The tools we use to run and build 37signals. We get lots of emails asking us what tools we use to build our products and run our business, so I figured we’d just post it to the blog. For text editing, HTML, programming, and CSS work we use a combination of TextWrangler, TextMate, and Vim.… Continue reading The tools we use to run and build 37signals

Realtors lose millions to FSBO site. FsboMadison, a for sale by owner real estate site in Wisconsin, is starting to scare realtors. The site listed about 2,000 homes in 2005 and said that about 72 percent of its listings sell. If the average sale of those homes was $200,000, it would result in real estate… Continue reading Realtors lose millions to FSBO site

Update on release of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.. Just in case you're wondering, my Apress book on starting/running/growing a micro-ISV ships tomorrow from the printer to Amazon etc., so it should be actually for sale somewhere between 1/9 and 1/16, depending on how those physical bits get moved around. – I'll also be launching… Continue reading Update on release of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.

Office 12 is not typical marketing hype.. By now, anyone who writes software for a living has heard that Microsoft Office 12 will be the 12th wonder of the world, a must upgrade, marketing blah blah blah blah blah (fading into the background noise of information we all dismiss). Big mistake, especially if you are… Continue reading Office 12 is not typical marketing hype.