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Thoughts on Mozilla Community
Jamie Zawinski's 1999 post on leaving AOL/Netscape/mozilla.org
This bit of history was linked today on Hacker News, and re-reading it touched on some points that I have been carefully considering the past few months, prompting me to write this.
I believe most people would agree that the Mozilla of today is a vastly changed beast from the dinosaur of ( Read more... ) -
Kspice is a useful technology for BI and Hadoop
Having infrastructure that is completely redundant and easy to bring down for Linux kernel upgrades is a wonderful thing, but it is pretty hard and frequently you end up with systems that still require downtime maintenance windows for rebooting.
Here are a few examples I can offer:- Pentaho BI server
- ETL processing servers
- Data warehouse database ( Read more... )
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Harry Potter meets SCIENCE!
I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series, but at times found myself quite despising Harry as a kid with too big of an ego who didn't listen and didn't think.
I really loved the Ender's Game series because, for the most part, Ender was quite the opposite of Harry.
To anyone who can associate these feelings with theirs: Please go read this fanfic. ( Read more... ) -
Mozilla has at least four sites in the Google top 1000 sites list
I just found out about Google's top 1000 websites list from a post on the fseek.me blog.
I expected to find mozilla.com near the top (it's position #10), but when, on a whim, I did a text search for getfirefox, I bumped into getpersonas.com at position #137, that's just plain cool. :)
Update: Here are the ones spotted so far:
10. mozilla.com
74. ( Read more... ) -
Microsoft's random browser ballot
When I saw what the page was supposed to do, (first five and last five sets displayed in random order) the first thing I thought was, "Man, I hope they tested the fool out of that or someone will make a fool out of them."
Looks like there wasn't quite enough testing. That said, I don't think that anyone could argue that the bug was damaging. No ( Read more... ) -
Dear LazyWeb
I'd like to help the Thunderbird community out by posting a series of quick video demonstrations of how I use Thunderbird + Lightning in my daily work ( Read more... ) -
SSH magic
I use SSH on a daily basis. Most of the machines I connect to can be accessed in one of two ways:- OpenSSL VPN
- SSH to a jumphost then SSH from there to the desired machine
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Performance of Rhino JS engine and Janino library in Kettle
My friend Roland Bouman made an interesting blog post regarding the performance of a bit of JavaScript for Kettle that he saw on a different blog ( Read more... ) -
Advice regarding using Travelex Cash Passport cards for travel
If you are a traveling to Europe and considering getting one of these debit cards to make life easier for you while there, my advice is don't! Figure out which of your credit cards charges the least amount of fees for international usage and just use it.
( Further ranting and whining below the cut... )
