Liveblog: Open Source Bridge, day 1


16:45: Living in an open-cloud world. The speaker is one of Rackspace Cloud's founders. This talk is more Rackspace-centric than it ought to be. I didn't come here to listen to a marketing spiel. "Some days, 75% of our HTTP referrers are from Facebook." 15:45: Stacks of cache. This is a memcached talk. Useful fact: … Continue reading Liveblog: Open Source Bridge, day 1 →

Open Source Bridge vs. work


I'm attending Open Source Bridge this week on my dime. In fact, besides paying for this trip with my money, I'm also taking time off without pay from work. That's because I just started working at IP Street, and I don't have any accrued vacation time. On Friday, I left work with a task about … Continue reading Open Source Bridge vs. work →

You’ll want ClickToFlash if you don’t have Flash


After I removed Flash from my MacBook Pro, I was annoyed by frequent “Safari can’t find the Internet plug-in” warnings. It turns out that ClickToFlash makes those warnings disappear. Meaning: Yes it does this when you have Flash installed, but it also does it if you don't have Flash installed. You'll see the "Flash" image where … Continue reading You’ll want ClickToFlash if you don’t have Flash →

Bitbucket is ill


I recently questioned whether Bitbucket was suffering from neglect. My conclusion was, "yes"... Jesper Noehr, a (the?) Bitbucket developer, replied to the post. He said Bitbucket's development was "quite active." But... Bitbucket's newsfeed has been "temporarily" disabled for over a week: Then there's their customer support. I pay for my Bitbucket account, so I'd like … Continue reading Bitbucket is ill →

Open Source Bridge 2010


If you work with open-source technologies and live in the pacific northwest (or even if you don't live in the pacific northwest), you ought to strongly consider attending Open Source Bridge in Portland. It's a 100% grass-roots conference devoted to all things open-source, and an incredible bargain at $300 for four days. From their site: Open … Continue reading Open Source Bridge 2010 →

Judging the health of BitBucket, GitHub, etc.


At my new job, we're selecting a hosted "revision control + wiki + issue tracker + document repository" service. My first recommendation was Bitbucket. I've used it for a while, and have always been satisfied. (I even have a paying account plan!) But after a day of use, we bumped into odd problems. Like, Windows … Continue reading Judging the health of BitBucket, GitHub, etc. →