What’s the future of data interchange over web services? Currently, I believe too much work is required of clients to utilize remote applications at the level of capability provided by a local API. Basically, it all comes down to speaking using a very narrow wire. It’s like assembling a jigsaw puzzle by sending written letters [...]
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So I’m almost to about 10 years in systems management stuff. As I keep thinking of what the ideal merger of all these apps I’ve worked with (or planned to build) are like, here’s how I would build the theoretical next. This is basically client/server architecture for very very many clients. Build something this way, [...]
As I’ve never attempted to type this out, rules I generally like to live by (to varying degrees of success): Shoot straight, play fair, and work hard Destruction is easy, creation is hard. Create more things. Animals are people too, except when they are very tasty and widely eaten. If hell is overseen by chickens, [...]
For local folks, I’m planning to give a talk on Open Source communities & business models (or “Open Source in non-glamarous practice”) at the upcoming NCSU FOSS Fair, this February. This may be a bit more “fair and balanced” (or PG-13?) than my usual open source community cheerleading pitch I’ve given in the past, but [...]
Today I took my new Olympus 45mm 1.8 out for a spin, attached to my trusty Panasonic GF1. As promised on twitter, here’s a mini review. Even though I don’t think I know anyone with a Micro 4/3rds camera, I like to feed the Google — and more people should buy them anyway, because they’re [...]
Music Theory Project Continued — Composing for a Grid Sequencer
Posted: December 27, 2011 in UncategorizedOver Christmas break I’ve converted the startings of my music theory library noose to Python, for no other reason that Python is my day job, and it makes things *slightly* easier to work in just one language. The new version is so far free of objects, so it can accomodate extremely long scores. (While it’s [...]
Many people are confused about the differences between the web, grid, cloud, web services, and “as a service”. I’ve decided to help them out. Click for Large
Here’s some questions I’ve never asked, and probably won’t. Why were the manholes in Nashua, New Hampshire triangular? Convince me that you are not a figment of my imagination, or me of yours List your top 10 favorite guitarists. Let’s change things up. You Interview me. It’s karaoke time! You have “Wheel in the Sky” [...]
Recently got a new Macbook air, it’s awesome, and I took the opportunity to end my usage of a few web apps that were hurting my brain. Ever read any articles that say the web/technology are rewiring your brain? I didn’t really have that problem, say, around 2000 or so. You used a mail reader, [...]
Cobbler moving to github is now complete. cobbler.github.com and Wiki. Why do this? Well, github has better collaboration tools for one. Another more important reason is to make the knowledge that Cobbler isn’t a distribution-specific project really really obvious, and to open up work from people moving in different directions. Fedora Hosted was great at [...]
