jeffh

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Old software becomes useless. Old hardware becomes used less.(jeelabs.org)
2 points by jeffh 14y ago|0 comments
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by jeffh 14y ago
Try out Stackato ( http://www.activestate.com/stackato ) [note: I work for ActiveState]. It's a commercial fork of Cloud Foundry that adds a lot more functionality. You can download an image for your hypervisor of choice (vSphere, fusion,
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by jeffh 15y ago
My girlfriend and I replaced cable with Netflix and internet TV (Food Network is online, plus lots of youtube stuff and other channels with food shows). FWIW, many nerds I know love cooking (including myself), so finding good shows (not cr
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by jeffh 15y ago
Vancouver, BC, Canada ActiveState Software ( http://www.activestate.com/ ) Multiple FULLTIME positions open. REMOTE possible for the right candidate. We are looking to grow our sales and development team on our Stackato private PaaS produc
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by jeffh 15y ago
This happened to software from my company (ActiveState), and we made a request to remove the extra wrapper bits (very much not the user experience we wanted), and CNet complied. Someone just has to ask. [edit: of course, we did also find o
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by jeffh 15y ago
ActiveState's Stackato already has Tornado support (we have a demo of Tornado Chat with MongoDB), amongst other features that are not yet in Cloud Foundry (Perl, run and db migration, ...). More about those at http://www.activestate.com/b
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by jeffh 15y ago
If you want a micro-cloud with Perl (and Python), check out Stackato at http://www.activestate.com/cloud . It is based on CloudFoundry, but enhanced with the additional languages and the ability to port existing apps ('run' and 'dbshell'
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by jeffh 15y ago
Actually some of the others do this as well. I believe that facet exists because of many States gift card laws. Yet another area that Groupon et al may hit issues with in the future.
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by jeffh 15y ago
The IP-based approach seems flawed from my pov as someone who travels often. I'm always checking in from various IP addresses. Even locals who like to log in from the nearest cafe would get false positives, while the canary approach is mo
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by jeffh 15y ago
Steve Jobs was fired ... and look what happened to Apple while he was gone. Good parallel? Probably not, but it isn't a unique situation.