Archive for September, 2006

Fresh Windows Install, Ouch

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

A few hours ago I started with a fresh Windows XP Home install for a computer for my family.
I’m still going.  I have lost count of how many times I have had to reboot the machine then get a new round of updates to install.  It is ludicrous.
Modern Linux distributions are far superior to this.  […]

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Dreamhost Out, TextDrive In

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

You might have noticed that this site is much faster than it used to be. The reason? I moved it from DreamHost to TextDrive.
TextDrive costs more, its “control panel” is not as good as DreamHost’s, and its bandwidth/storage limits are lower. But my site is far faster, hasn’t had any downtime or […]

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Joel, you have got to be kidding

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Joel seems to “play it safe” … then goes off the deep end of irony in his final paragraph:
“FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language […]

Posted in java, delphi, php, dot-net, programming, ruby, business, commentary, lua | 2 Comments »