Monthly Archives: December 2008

From Zappos.com’s CEO: Everything I know about business I learned from poker

Zappos is an online apparel retailer that started out selling shoes but ended up in as a full apparel retailer. Their mission statement is not unique, but I feel what is different about them is how they align themselves to … Continue reading

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Live Mesh is the son of Groove, the son of Notes

I bought the December issue of Wired magazine because it had a feature on Ray Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and Groove. Lotus Notes is an interesting technology that is one of the best enterprise collaboration tools available today. … Continue reading

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Rapid development frameworks – CakePHP, Django, RoR

Last month I blogged about a comparing rapid development frameworks. These are tools that help you develop web-based applications. They provide building blocks of functionality that you can readily glue together in a larger conceptual framework [like Lego, you can … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 graphical boot splash

For a little bit of extra eye-candy, Fedora 10 users can try the “Plymouth boot splash loader”

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Merb merges with Rails 3!

In a bit of surprise news, Rails merges with the Merb team. The implication will be that the efforts of the two frameworks won’t be duplicated across the teams. Users of merb will be able to enjoy the third-party support … Continue reading

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We are none of us alone

We are none of us alone. Even as we exhale it is inhaled by others. The light that shines on me shines on my neighbour as well. In this way, I’m connected to my friend even as I’m connected to … Continue reading

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Mirror mirror … on the wall

I’ve been thinking about ways to promote OSS here in Brunei. One suggested method is to set up an OSS mirror here. A mirror is essentially a local copy of software, that is sync with the providers. Changes in the … Continue reading

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3 of 4 undersea cables severed

Bloomberg reports that 3 undersea cables were severed in the Mediterranean (between Italy and Egypt). This may inadvertently affect some outsourcing contracts and work being done in Asia. The cuts affects Brunei to some degree … since it’s the FLAG, … Continue reading

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Experimenting with Ruby and Merb

I’ve been looking through Ruby on Rails and I find many of the conventions fascinating. Convention-over-configuration is cool one … it means instead of having to tirelessly configure every single aspect of your application … RoR does some things automagically, … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part4

Awesome! I got suspend and 3D graphics working fine on the Dell E6400! Searching the Fedora / RPMFusion repositories revealed this: [izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum search nvidia | grep -i ‘driver’ : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary … Continue reading

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