This post generated an enormous amount of interest. This is why I don’t give you a job (Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3436244). Fascinating. There are some great comments. The responses boil down into two perspectives. One, that the government is a giant leech preventing entrepreneurs from succeeding, through regulation which makes it impossible to fire people and …
Category Archives: technology
Adaptable to transformable: whenever it gets easier, it then immediately gets harder
I feel like we have hit a wonderful spot in the world of entrepreneurship in the software world. It is so trivial to build incredibly powerful apps with a but few lines of code. You can prototype an idea, get it in front of users in a matter of weeks, and deploy it into the …
I’m giving you nothing for Christmas
A great friend forwarded me this. I wanted to share: I got you nothing this year! I mean it. You and I think alike. We both hate the cluttered lives we have. No wonder people are stressed all the time. We live in an age of “affluenza,” too much stuff, stuff that is killing us. Our …
To all the entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley, NY and Boston
The New York Times does a great job of covering the exciting businesses arising in the technology worlds of Silicon Valley, NY and Boston. There is a lot of money there, and I do think that many of the most brilliant people in the world gravitate to those areas to be a part of something …
Steve Jobs made it personal
This morning as my fiance left, and the dawn was breaking here in coastal Georgia, I got into the shower, tears welling up as I kept coming back to the fact that Steve Jobs has left this earth. How silly is that? I never met him. But, Jobs was different. He made the things important to me …
The convergence of spirituality and science
We are coming to a point where we must recognize the convergence of spirituality and science. This might shock a lot those who identify as atheists, and it might shock people who identify as republicans, democrats, libertarians. It might shock anyone who identifies with a group as long as that group has a shared villain. …
Will the e-commerce of the future require creating a safe community?
There are so many interesting things about the fact that Amazon will no longer deliver Kindle as an iPad app but instead as a web app. A surprising yet natural response to Apple subjecting in-app purchases to a 30% tax. A tax which might be tolerable for a small developer who realizes that marketing will …
Personal growth is like git
Nerd talk ahead, be warned! Lots of people in my life know that I am an advocate of doing personal growth work, like what you find in the Landmark Forum. It often feels like people in the tech community regard this type of work as unimportant. “I need to spend time leveling-up on my ruby …
Using JREngage (Janrain) to login inside your Android application and your Rails webservice
I recently started playing with the JREngage plugin for Android. I have been a long time user of Janrain’s multi-host OpenID authentication services, and was interested to see how easily I could build a login system within my Android application. It was trivial to get this working. And, as a bonus, you can then have …
Monitoring Wowza with monit
I figured someone would be using monit to watch the Wowza server, but this thread on the Wowza forums had no responses. So I rolled my own configuration. Obviously you will want to customize the email address in the first gist. And, then tail –f /var/log/syslog to see monit’s activity in syslog. I had to …