Monthly Archives: April 2007

ps pipe grep: Episode 13 (Sudden Death)

April 11, 2007 – 7:08 pm

Ben, Jason, Dave talk about how busy they are answering email, surnames, Slingshot, Joyent’s updated storage infrastructure, events we’re going to be attending/presenting (JavaOne, Railsconf), the Blogger’s Code of Conduct, and the new OpenSolaris governing body and how contributing to OpenSolaris works. Then GarageBand borks. Oh well. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Podcast | Comments (10)

Play nicely or we'll kick your butt…

April 5, 2007 – 10:56 pm

well, we’ll delete your comment anyway. Ok, prepare yourselves. This is a post from the Marketing girl. Doesn’t lessen the value of the content below, but if you are looking to find information on the TextMate editor or how to reclaim memory…this is not it. For quite a while now, we’ve been removing occasional comments [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (14)

Thinking about uptime numbers for the top 20 websites

April 3, 2007 – 3:29 am

I was reading Om early today and saw Blogger, YouTube get F for downtime. Om was discussing Pingdom’s post Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites And I found myself wondering how many of those sites are destination sites versus serving their customers’ pages under some-subdomain.some-other-domain.com For example, Does 4 hours and 47 [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Fatboy Ambien: The Manhattan

April 3, 2007 – 3:15 am

The official Joyeur bourbon is Woodford Reserve (though we like Booker’s for cask strength), and after a long day chatting about the future of the western web, we like to sit back and enjoy a nice Manhattan. Here’s what you’ll need: Woodford Reserve (or Booker’s, if Monday was really tough) kentucky bourbon Martini and Rossi [...]

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Slingshot Apologia: We Didn't Design Slingshot for Planes

April 2, 2007 – 10:28 am

David Heinemeier Hansson recently opined that offline web applications ”[are] getting an undue amount of attention. Which is bizarre when you look at how availability of connectivity is ever increasing.” I’ll leave David to his opinions, and others, who believe that connectivity is not so pervasive, or ever will be, to theirs. I believe an [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (26)
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