August 2010
28 posts
swindsor:
TeachStreet: 3 years in code.
I realized that it’s almost the 3 year anniversary of when I joined TeachStreet and when we started writing code. (it was actually mid-September 2007). This is a visualization from our git repository from gource. Sometimes you’ll see similar usernames as the same coders check in code using a different machine, but you should be able to recognize the...
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What to read?
My new Kindle arrived last night, and my first impression is a lot better than I thought it’d be: this new generation of hardware is actually quite sexy.
I’m not as active of a book reader as I wish I were, and I’m hoping the Kindle helps change that. I’ve got a couple of books in the queue: Yvon Chounaird’s “Let My People Go Surfing”, based on...
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You get all these high-powered plastic surgeons and CEOs, you know, who pay...
– Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia Clothing
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A Few More Fun eNIC Facts
We had our own data center, on the 39th floor of 999 3rd. Massive batteries, redundant power and connectivity, a dozen or so racks: It was over-the-top.
Our NOC had clear plexiglass floor tiles, with rope lighting in them so that visitors could “see the bits moving”.
For a few weeks after the acquisition and subsequent data center migration, I ran a stack of servers,...
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10 Years Ago
Part of growing old is hitting anniversaries of landmark dates, and part of having a blog is reminiscing about those dates and preserving those memories into bits, so here’s a story for you.
This month marks 10 years since my first day at eNIC, the company which ran the registry for the .CC top-level domain (Cocos Keeling Islands). I spent a little over a year and a half there, and it was a...
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dance party!
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