Well, it’s been a while in the making, but today I’m very excited to announce the launch of Tradervue, a web application for active traders! When I left my full-time position at NewsGator about a year and a half ago, I started actively trading equities intraday. Yep, one of those day traders. I was thinking [...]
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Traffic threshold Mint extension on Github
For those who are using the traffic threshold pepper for Mint, or those who wish it did just one more thing, I’ve put the source up in a public repo on Github. So if you have some ideas, or have found a bug, please feel free to jump in!
Generic terms of service
I’ve written in the past about Facebook and Picasa and their (IMHO) ridiculous terms (at least at the time, I haven’t reviewed them lately). Now twitpic, a site that we all use used to upload pictures to show on twitter has decided that they are more than welcome to sell our pictures. They even tried [...]
Traffic threshold pepper extension for Mint stats
I’ve started using Mint for web stats on this site. I stumbled across a review from Shawn Blanc that he wrote about an older version a while back, and decided to try it. It’s a web stats package that you install on your server, and it’s really focused on what’s happening right now (as opposed [...]
Don on the Amazon outage
An excellent article from the super-smart Don MacAskill, CEO of Smugmug, on how they survived the Amazon Web Services outage and a few tidbits about how their system is designed. One little tidbit: Once your system seems stable enough, start surprising your Ops and Engineering teams by killing stuff in the middle of the day [...]
Choosing a colocation vendor – power and cooling (part 3)
In part 1, we had a quick overview of things to think about when looking at colocation vendors and data centers. In part 2, we looked into your network and your bandwidth usage. Today, we’ll talk about power. I pretty much ignored this when I first moved into a top-tier facility. I assumed if I [...]
Choosing a colocation vendor – network and bandwidth (part 2)
In part 1, I gave a quick overview of some things to think about when choosing the data center vendor you want to colocate with. Today, we’ll talk about one particular topic, the network and bandwidth. At a high level, there are three parts of your network: the external connection to the internet, your internal [...]
Choosing a colocation vendor – overview (part 1)
There’s been a lot of talk the last few days about Facebook’s Open Compute project, where they have published info about their servers and data centers. It’s interesting reading. But, arguably, not specifically relevant for many folks. Say you’re a startup. You’ve built the next great thing, you’ve got a few beta customers, and it’s [...]
On cloud storage
Seems like every day we’re flooded with new consumer-targeted cloud storage companies, promising easy backups and possibly tempting prices. And most of them have a free tier, offering a few GB to give us a taste. Some examples – AVG LiveKive (5GB free), SpiderOak (2GB free), Box.net (5GB free), SugarSync (5GB free), Windows Live SkyDrive [...]
No, I didn’t see your ad in the paper
The other day, someone came to the door and rang the doorbell. When I answered, he was standing back about 10 feet (which everyone seems to do now – seriously, when did that start?), and he said something like: “Hi, I’m your neighbor from down the street, and I’m also your new newspaper delivery guy. [...]