economics
{% blockquote New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?pagewanted=2 Continuing Job Losses May Signal Broad Economic Shift %} "But history also shows that when fear [from the financial crisis] lifts, the economy returns not to normalcy but to wherever it was when
design
This post is the third in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In the first post in this series, I listened among our radical technology decisions the decision to launch our new Pay4Bugs Software Testing Marketplace without any support for Internet Explorer 6. In the interests of full
technology
This post is the second in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In my previous post, I discussed our decision to make several radical technology choices in designing the new Pay4Bugs software testing service. In this article, I will discuss the decision to launch Pay4Bugs with IPv6 enabled
technology
Designing Pay4Bugs, our new global software testing marketplace, provided us with much more flexibility in our technology choices when compared with designing our company's namesake product Attigo Virtual Language Immersion. Attigo's target market is the education market. Schools and educators, understandability, tend to be relatively conservative
blog
Awesome web-based tool that helps to generate ruby regex! http://www.rubular.com/
business
Congratulations to Friends at ClutchWave LLC for launching PricePlow.com, soon to be the leader in shopping for supplements. Whatever you're looking for, be it protein, vitamins, weightloss products, fatty acids or amino acids, Priceplow will help you find the flavor you want at the best price.
technology
Amazon Web Service's new Content Data Network, Cloudfront was launched two days ago. Previously Cachefly had been the premier choice for Small and Medium size businesses looking for a content data network to speed up downloads for the users. I was mainly interested in download speed in the
technology
I spent quite a long time googling for a way of re-creating symmetric cone nat in house without buying Cisco hardware. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This was done on Ubuntu 8.04 beta. eth1 = public ip eth0 = lan ip echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/
technology
Hongli Lai asks why some think Rails deployment is difficult. First, a disclaimer. I am not a Ruby on Rails expert. I have only used Rails for one small production project. I found both Ruby and Rails quite easy to pick up coming from a J2EE background. What can be
technology
Draft 1 OAuth 1.0 spec was announced yesterday. By my count, it requires no less than 6 HTTP request/response round trips assuming the user is already logged in to the service provider. If the user is NOT logged into the service provider and has to log in before
business
Why does a Landscape-managed deployment of Ubuntu cost US$250 per seat per year? For my 7-seat deployment in our new China-based subsidiary, that would cost us US$1,750/year. Compare to the Microsoft Partner Program's Actionpack Subscription at HK$2,792 (~US$350) per year. The
politics
Ohio voters passed the SmokeFreeOhio late last year. Ten months after the voters spoke, the first fines were issued against offending businesses. The penalty for businesses that have ignored the will of voters for almost a year? A measly US$100. There are bars that make more than that on