Monthly Archives: April 2006

Hoffman Funny

April 24, 2006 – 10:54 am

Coffee literally shot out of my nose.

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20 Minutes to Success

April 21, 2006 – 3:44 pm

Jason Fried over at Signal versus Noise lists many of the ways Southwest Airlines is “simple”. I have to admit having a deep, deep admiration for Southwest airlines. It is the official airline for Joyent within the United States. (Damn you Wright amendment when we travel to the DFW area!) I’ve even thought about going [...]

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Federation Square

April 20, 2006 – 1:51 am

As I watched Federation Square (the so-called Centre of Melbourne, despite being right on the edge) take shape over the years, I hated it. I laughed at those angles and predicted it would look horridly out of date long before construction finished. I’m pretty sure most of Melbourne was on my side. Here we are [...]

By jason | Posted in General | Comments (10)

Can you check my math? (Perhaps we'll also call this, "What's in a web server"?)

April 17, 2006 – 11:29 pm

A quick comment and something to point out after some comparisons of Apache 2.0-prefork versus Lighttpd and Litespeed for running Rails applications. Paul Q. in the debunking lighttpd post he wrote a while back, had as his main point that benchmarking a web server using localhost tells you nothing about and ignores the ability of [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (10)

Jason Hoffman speaking at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference

April 16, 2006 – 4:24 am

Here’s more information about Jason Hoffman’s upcoming talk at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. We look forward to meeting you there.

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I'm moving to Argentina

April 14, 2006 – 11:24 pm

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day

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EyeSpot: Video Editor in JavaScript

April 11, 2006 – 6:14 pm

It’s a far cry from iMovie, but my hat is off to EyeSpot for the pure gumption of attempting this, let alone pulling it off.

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Three Martinis

April 7, 2006 – 2:14 pm

We’re rolling out another monstrously good deal, one that combines really high end versions of Joyent, TextDrive and Strongspace. Similar to our very successful ‘Mixed Grill’ special from earlier this year, you get your sites hosted on our Business servers, which carry 90% fewer accounts than our regular shared machines, a big honking wodge of [...]

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Joyful JavaScript

April 7, 2006 – 12:55 am

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love JavaScript.

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Iconic

April 5, 2006 – 10:56 pm

Man cannot live on icons alone.

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