How I moved my blog from WordPress.com to EC2
Last weekend I moved my long-standing blog from Wordpress.com, the commercial blog hosting of Automattic to my own hosting at Amazon EC2. Here’s a guide for anybody interested in doing the same.
Can open source engineering work in a commercial project?
Today, in a discussion with some engineers, we wondered if it is possible to replicate some of the attributes that make some open source projects so incredibly powerful in a more commercial setting. We’re not talking about making money off of open source; instead, we’re interested in cataloguing what can be learnt from the open [...]
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
Zed Shaw has a nice essay on the state of programming, drawing analogies from the attainment of mastery from martial arts. Here’s an excerpt: Programming is a very new discipline, so there’s not too many master programmers out there. What’s worse is that the few people I would consider masters aren’t very exemplary of the [...]
The mankind went nuts – some disadvantages of AJAX
I met Yakov Fain a couple of years ago during a blustery NJ weekend at a Flex bootcamp course he was giving. He is damn smart, and is publishing his second Flex book on OReilly soon. He’s also funny, in a non-self-aware way. Hope you meet him at some conference soon. One of his russian-english [...]
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