March 05, 2009
We are a small but established company building telephony applications with Ruby and Asterisk. Our products are specifically designed for national, non-profit customers. Our growing, long-term customer base have used the products we develop to achieve startling progressive election victories. Our ke...
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So Metro approved the contract for 4 of the 5 new light rail lines this week. Although there have been complaints about the 2012 plan delays, it looks like Metro used the time - and the intervening economic collapse - wisely to get the costs down to $73 million per mile (from potential estimates as ...
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March 01, 2009
A couple interesting things coming out of startup land. For one, Posterous has a little writeup on Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way. Good things to take away include using Sphinx/Solr for search, but the real important takeaway for the MySQL crowd is Storage...
Colin Charles Agenda
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February 27, 2009
The Lift web framework hit its 1.0 release today. Major congratulations goes to the Lift team. I have been lucky enough to get to know Lift founder David Pollak and Lift committer Jorge Ortiz. They are both very bright engineers and the high quality of Lift reflects this. I was very happy to give a ...
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February 24, 2009
My CEO, Mark Harrison, downloaded and installed a new 3D virtual world called Twinity, based in Berlin, that will recreate the world’s coolest cities, starting with Berlin. Mark loves Berlin more than anything, so he tried exploring his #1 home from his #2 home, Mauritius, and here is his story,...
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February 23, 2009
          Analogies of Power: The Printing Press and Programming                      Gutenberg's revolution was huge for mankind. But if you didn't know how to read - it meant nothing. If you could write well - it meant the potential of a new profession. If...
DigiDave - Journalism is a Process, Not a Product
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way. Lessons learned from Posterous. Some good advice in here, in particular “Memcache later: If you memcache first, you will never feel the pain and never learn how bad your database indexes and Rails queries are�. Also reco...
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February 14, 2009
The outcry over my idea of establishing certification of Rails development shops based on a "Rails Maturity Model" (RMM) gave me pause, to say the least. (It also gave me a bit of heartburn.) I was wrong to suggest auditing and certification, although I want to point out that I didn't write that mes...
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February 12, 2009
After the PBS town hall a couple weeks ago, first one and then another person commented or emailed me referring to the "Rail Anti-Christ". I didn't understand what they were referring to, but figured it couldn't be a coincidence. After inquiring, they explained it to me. The videos of the town hall ...
Houston Strategies
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The government sparked a trade union backlash today after awarding a £7.5bn train contract to a Japanese-led consortium and admitting that some of the 12,500 jobs created or safeguarded by the deal will be based outside Britain. The news came in the wake of a wave of wildcat strikes over the use of...
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