Facts of life. Tobi on embracing constraints: “At various points since my return I tried to bring up the point about gender equality in storage space but I suspect most of you know how well these things usually work…”
Halloween special! Cobol: The Undead Language.
Speaking of masquerade balls … Let’s dress it up in XML, paint Open on our foreheads, and show up at the next standards body bash, and see how many people we can fool into thinking you can take our data out of our product. Bob Sutor rightfully calls OpenXML “a one way specification”.
How do you park this baby? Sun’s new ‘Puter In A Box. *Drool*
To scale. I love the new Sun container, but sometimes you’ve got to start small. Media Temple is offering pay-as-you-need hosting by clustering your server on a Grid. $20/month buys you 100GB storage, 1TB bandwidth, and 64 MB Ruby/Mongrel container. Worth checking out for the next project. (Via TechCrunch)