Category Archives: Ranting and Reflections

jquerymobile and having design constraints

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been working on this idea/project called Eyes for the past year on and off. Maybe for the past 4 to 6 months I’ve been stymied by what I want the visual representation to look like, struggling with the options … Continue reading →

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Nearly at the top of that first hill

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been thinking about the past week at the OpenStack Design Summit (Bexar) solidly from last night (flying home from San Antonio, TX) through the various errands I’ve been running today. This morning Rick Clark tweeted “A question about OpenStack”. … Continue reading →

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more always on applications … in the cloud

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Joe

I took the “always on application” and ran through some numbers this evening. I was curious – with the hosting options available today, what would it cost someone to run an “always on” application. The way I’m thinking about it, … Continue reading →

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The “always on” for desktop apps…

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been thinking about a problem I’m having with twitter – that I want to see more than I can easily watch unless I’m checking on it every hour or so. This gets especially problematic when I’m gone for a … Continue reading →

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Vacation

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Joe

Last couple of weeks have been spent on vacation – something I’ve always wanted to do – cruise up the Inside Passage to Alaska. We left from Seattle, WA, stopped at Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan (all in Alaska) and were dropped … Continue reading →

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breaking the private network oasis addiction with OAuth

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joe

Most reasonably (and larger) sized operations organizations have a pretty standard networking setup – or at least some close variation on the theme. ARIN wants public IP addresses behind load balancers, so most orgnizations front up their services through software … Continue reading →

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the CMDB is dead, long live the CMDB

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Joe

I work in an environment that has an existing CMDB. Over the past year, I’ve spent a fair number of man hours from my team and an equal number of hours of my own thinking about what it is, what … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 upgrade

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Joe

New theme, and updated back end – moved everything this afternoon to WordPress version 3.0. Upgrade worked like a champ – and I took the time to twiddle the theme into something new and switched around the various widgets. Since … Continue reading →

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WWDC 2010 Wrap-up

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Joe

I’m leaving San Francisco, and Apple’s WWDC, this year more introspective than inspired. The conference puts us under NDA, so while there was some new stuff shown and talked about there, I can’t pass it all along. Not yet anyway, … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Joe

I saw on the news last night a story about a girl (Abby Sunderland) being rescued while on a solo around-the-world sailing trip. She was in the Indian Ocean, and the rough seas had taken their toll on her boat, … Continue reading →

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