Archive for June, 2007

• June 30 2007

  Date: 2007.06.30 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 1

  • Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills
    Eachan talked to Silicon.com earlier this week about the Betfair development centre that we are currently setting up in Cluj. As he says, it is going really well: the people are bright, keen and talented, we are working on some brand new products and I think it is fair to say that the work we have been doing in Cluj for the past few months has already made an impact on the way that Betfair development takes place back in London. If you are in Romania and want to see what we are up to don’t hesitate to get in touch!
  • More on Google Scalability Conference
    Greg has a link to Dares reports on the Google scalability conference…
  • Seattle Scalability Conference, Pt II
    … and some more from StorageMojo. Anyone else going to put something up?
  • Scrum from the trenches just went payware
  • Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix

  Technorati Tags: Betfair, Romania, scalability, Scrum, Continuous Integration

• June 28 2007

  Date: 2007.06.28 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  • Seattle Conference on Scalability, Pt. I
    StorageMojo’s first take on last weeks scalability conference at Google. Can’t wait to for the vids to come out.
  • Joe Miller of Linden Lab speaks at the Catalyst Conference
    Jeff Barr has got some Second Life stats.

  Technorati Tags: scalability, Google, Linden Lab, Jeff Barr, Second Life

• June 26 2007

  Date: 2007.06.26 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 1

  • Amazon EC2 and S3 disaster planning
    More on the Amazon SLA discussion. Artur reckons someone should compete with Amazon – I agree – competion is good. A (VERY) tongue in cheek suggestion: as this competition will be a start up, why not bootstrap it using S3 and EC2? If it takes off then you can afford to do your own thing, if it doesn’t then who cares – you don’t own the hardware.
  • CFengine
    Must be going senile – never heard of CFEngine before and it seems to have been around for a while.
  • Ubuntu bug number one
    lol

• June 25 2007

  Date: 2007.06.25 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  • Technical Debt
    Make sure you know what the interest rate is.
  • Improve continuously
  • The insurance point of view
    Fancy insuring the results of your development process? What would happen if we applied completion guarentees (as used in movies) to software development?
  • Four hours upfront and then reevaluate
    The 37signals guys are trying out 4 hour dev cycles. Less is more I suppose.
  • Second life bugs
    Ouch!

• June 21 2007

  Date: 2007.06.21 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 1

  • Linux: Introducing bugs
    Torvalds tells it like it is.
  • i read more blogs on tuesday
    Why don’t I get this from Bloglines?
  • Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA
    Interesting comments from Greg Linden and Doug Kaye where they take differing views and I think they are both right. Those SLAs suck if you are trying to run a business that is succesful – +1 to Greg. The economics of EC2 make it a very cheap way of boot strapping an idea. The probability is that the idea will fail any way. +1 to Doug.
    SmugMug pdf from Greg
  • WiFi: Record Range Now 382 KM
    That is a long way!

• June 19 2007

  Date: 2007.06.19 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  • Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems
  • Google Research Labs

• June 18, 2007

  Date: 2007.06.18 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  • How to develop software like commanding a tank
  • Here, here and here
    Interesting to compare build charts from 3 different projects.

• June 16, 2007

  Date: 2007.06.16 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  • The Importance of the environment
    Jan is right about the manual nature of deployments being the source of all evil. I am not sure about his definition of simplicity though. I would prefer to focus on making the deployment easier through automation regardless of the number of different systems. (but I agree that less is more).
  • Google Scalability Conference
    I think Dan might enjoy himself.
  • Cal Henderson.

• Agile Estimating

  Date: 2007.06.11 | Category: Notes to self | Response: 0

  Mike Cohn: Agile Estimation Bay XP Meeting, March 2007

  • Part One – video
  • Part Two – video

• Automatic feed placements for Bloglines?

  Date: 2007.06.06 | Category: General | Response: 0

  Here is an idea for Bloglines.com: why don’t they provide the ability to display my available blogs ordered by the number of times I click on the blog feed link? They should already know how often I click a particular blog to read it. The more I read it, the higher up my list of blogs it goes. That way I don’t have to manually try and order my blogfeeds (which is a COMPLETE pain in the bum).