mike’s place

I’m moving servers, from the old Textdrive shared BSD boxes to the shiny new Joyent shared accelerators. I’m also moving from a ‘/~mlarocque’ (yes I am an old-school unix geek) base url to ‘/mlarocque’. Redirects written, etc. I’m hoping not to break things. Too badly at least.

One of the best xkcd comics yet!

Scratch what I said in a previous post. I think this one is the best one.

Humourous article by Obie Fernandez comparing Ruby and Java.

Ah, one more in the series…

Excellent, excellent hour long Google Tech Talk by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders about processing that out of control email inbox of yours. This is how I manage my email.

At least I didn’t do it. Phew!

Coincidentally, I started and finished a cool little Rails photo album application with Ajaxy goodness today for a client.

Third of four parts.

Oh yeah, baby!

Oh, I so enjoy doing Rails.

“It’s a series of tubes.”
Sigh.

Here’s an excellent anecdote about throwing more resources at a problem. Any managers out there–please read this.

Via Gruber.

An interesting new blog search engine called Sphere just launched. I learned about it on TalkCrunch’s latest podcast. Specifically, check out their Sphere It! bookmarklet. This is going to be quite interesting. It looks like Technorati has a strong new competitor on its hands.

Have you ever had one of those moments? You know the moment when you realize that something really bad â„¢ has happened. I had one of those a few hours ago. A gut wrenching realization that over 10 years of data has found its way to /dev/null.

As of today, my email history goes back a [...]

Here is a cool use of Google Maps. It allows
you to map your walking/running/biking routes using Google Maps. Among other things it allow you to calculate calories.
Cool.

It’s funny because it’s true.
I’ve seen most of this footage before, but some was new to me. Very well done.

So you want to know how Google works.
Not the algorithms, but the processes. Good article!

It definitely looks like James Gosling
didn’t get the memo.

I’ve been playing around with Campfire, another great product
brought to you by the fine folks over at 37 signals.
I think this is going to be a great tool for small businesses.

If I’m online, I can be reached at mike’s place.