Month: June 2008
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More Push Ups
I just finished day 3 of week 1 of the push up regimen. I feel the burn:) I just did 68 pushups in about 12 minutes. I didn’t do them all at once, but in five blocks, with 120 second breaks between. It may not sound like much, but that’s more pushups within 12 minutes…
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Push Ups
Some friends and I are doing a six week push up regimen that in theory will have us able to do 100 consecutive push ups by the end of the six weeks. It’s only 3 times a week, for about 10 minutes. Check out the program here: hundredpushups.com It’s free. So far I’m in week…
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Publish!
It occurs to me that doctors and scientists are encouraged to, and given job time, to write and publish papers/articles in journals, etc… I think employers should be encouraging developers/architects to release or work on open source projects, post technical articles, keep a technical blog, etc… Not only does it let developers keep up with…
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Interesting article about 10MinuteMail in the Taipei Times
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/06/16/2003414884 It’s especially interesting how the availability of 10MinuteMail in so many different languages makes it more likely to be a popular site in other countries. It stands to reason, but not something I’d really considered directly. If your site isn’t USA specific, you’d may want to consider offering your site in multiple languages.
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Why I love Debian (and PostgreSQL)
I woke up this morning, got online through my new UMTS/HSPDA modem, and discovered that one of my servers had a load average of 239+ Not the best way to start the day. Turns out an rsync backup job between two servers had gone nuts and was spinning them up through the roof. A couple…
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Design Comparison
Good design is apparently harder than you might think. Let’s take a quick look at three big online cosmetic/accessory web store-fronts: Drugstore.com, Sephora.com, and Ulta.com. I’m not an IA, so I won’t try to do a big analysis. I’m just going to let you look at the three different home page looks across the three…