Installing SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Crystal Reports ALL on Amazon EC2Aaron Lennon – CTO, Gravity JackI noticed many postings on Amazon.com complaining about the 10 GB limited for AMI’s and how this prevented the installation of critical development components. I like the idea of Amazon keeping their AMI images as small as possible.I … Installing SQL 2008 / VS2008 / Crystal Reports on EC2
When I put away my wakeboard for the winter here in the Northwest I break out the snowboard. Naturally I follow the latest tech for the mountain…. Can you imagine what you could do with these goggles if they opened up an API and SDK for them? I would totally wear these to starbucks if … Snowboarding and software development
Jack likes to wakeboard, Jack likes Star Trek – Jack likes this wetsuit.Do you think it would be strange to wear this to our morning SCRUM meetings? They are the real deal, not fake wetsuits. Each wetsuit is custom made and tailored to your exact measurements and are available in three colors: Command Yellow, Science … Beam me up bro
Think of this search engine as an answer engine. I can’t get enough of it!A few things to try while you are on their site:* enter any date (e.g. a birth date)june 23, 1988* enter any city (e.g. a home town) Liberty Lake* enter any two stocksIBM Apple* enter any calculation$250 + 15%* enter any … Wolfram|Alpha – A crazy cool answer engine
In college I had a crazy comp sci instructor who was explaining 56-bit DES encryption and telling the class why it was unbreakable (without ten years of computational time on modern machinery). Before you think this dates me to when Charles Babbage was kicking around, let me assure you she had no clue what she … Amazon hacked
My wife Jill assures me that 5 years old is too young for teaching quantum physics to my kids so I “went big”, skirted the rule – and was trying to explain general relativity with regards to the entire universe, and that led into if the universe had an end, and that led into me … We are just a wee little spec
There is a lot of hype surrounding what some have claimed is the mythical Apple tablet, here are some interesting details on what to expect this spring if Jack ran the universe.12 “facts” about the tablet you probably didn’t know:1) Battery life is upwards of 7 hours. I will believe that once I have seen … 12 interesting features of the new Apple Tablet
I thought I would share our project management commandments. These are what we live by – feel free to drop me a line if you have more ideas. 🙂1)Â Â Â Â Â We are not a software company we are a communication company. Software happens here as a byproduct of communication2)Â Â Â Â Â Create realistic expectations even if it hurts … Top ten software project management tips
My friend and I were brainstorming business ideas over sushi and we came up with a new fortune cookie idea – drop paranoid statements into the cookies and hand them out at mental hospitals. “The voices are real†– “We actually are watching you†“The medication is poison†– Maybe it was the sake that … “The voices are real” or “scalable systems for big brother…”
Every once in awhile we have to give our professional opinion to clients on what open source license is “safe†for a particular use.For the most part, MIT, BSD, and the Apache licenses are good for business. GPL, LGPL you need to be very careful.Either way, you need to follow different guidelines for each license … Open Source License Types
