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How to Make $1 on The Internet
Growing up in the Gen-X / Gen-Y, post-TV world of my youth has obvious advantages. But it lacks some of the nuance of yesteryear – like a framed copy of your first dollar. Making money on the internet,...
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Cool things I’ve discovered recently
I’ve never done a round-up post before, so now must be a good time. Here are a few cool things I’ve found recently: How to use VPN to solve VoIP problems As some of you may be aware, when I’m not busy...
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“Rabbits FTW” – The Mark Cuban Stimulus Package Needs Meat
Most of my (non-work-related) thinking these days circles around how we, as a species, a culture, or a geographical collection of human flesh, can make a smooth recovery from our petroleum addiction....
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A WebHook named ‘Jeff’
Jeff as a webhook PROBLEM: Help people understand how cool webhooks are. PROBLEM: Find out when there’s new content on a site. SOLUTION: Put a webhook into the site’s search indexing tool – SOLR....
View ArticleLaunched NOVA – Apache-Licensed Cloud Computing, in Python
It’s live, it’s buggy, it’s beta. Check it out: http://novacc.org From the website: Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system) built to match the popular AWS EC2 and...
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OpenStack – Where we’re going, and why
I didn’t sleep much on Sunday night. By the time I headed for bed, the news was out, and the twittubes were flooded. Desperate to get sleep, but I’m terrified to wake up to 1,000 new bug reports. It’s...
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Come to Switzerland and Save the World (with Software)
The view from the office EDIT: Feel free to contact me by twitter DM as well: http://twitter.com/jmckenty As most of you have by now figured out from my FourSquare stream, I’ve been spending a fair bit...
View ArticleBetter Integration of Jpype and Log4J
We’ve been using JPype at GEM to integrate some existing legacy Java libraries with the new Python code in OpenQuake. Until today, one of the ugliest parts of this integration has been logging –...
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Build something you care about
Many of you are probably expecting me to say something about my new venture, Piston. You might be expecting some discussion of the Rackspace acquisition of Anso Labs, or why I left Anso. In fact, you...
View ArticleWhat It Means to be OpenStack
What does it mean to be OpenStack? OpenStack has become something of a lightning rod for media attention – attention which, sadly, focuses reliably on the fear, uncertainty and doubt that any...
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