This is awesome, if a little insane. Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day: Continuous Deployment means running all your tests, all the time. That means tests must be reliable. We’ve made a science out of debugging and fixing intermittently failing tests. When I say...

Back in July I wrote about my new career as a kafeneion owner in the virtual world that Google launched under the moniker “Lively”. For those of you who don’t know, a kafeneion is a typical Greek gathering place where (mostly) men come together to have a coffee or rakí, read the n...

Without much fanfare, the 20% time project Lively is now facing the end of its brief lifespan, as Google announced today that the virtual chat and meeting tool is set to be shut down by the end of the year. “…despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last ...

Second Life is either peaking or busy crossing the chasm, depending on who you believe. IMVU stealthed its way to tons of users. Club Penguin found its windfall by figuring out how to reach children safely. Blizzard had revenues of $1.1 billion last year. Qwaq makes private virtual worlds for the en...

One of my boys remarked last night that I haven’t written anything of substance in a few days. And I told him that I don’t usually write unless I am feeling inspired. So here is a stumble image I came across in the last week, I have files and files of pictures from all over the sphere th...