A Case Against the Separation of Support and Development

Posted on November 2, 2009.

Many large companies have made the decision to separate the support of software from its development - forming separate teams to focus entirely on one activity. The reasons behind this decision make a lot of sense on the surface. Developers are free to focus entirely on their projects unhindered by ...

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DRY Ajax Comments

Posted on October 24, 2009.

Back in February, I posted an entry about adding Ajax functionality to the built-in comments app. I always intended to go back and improve this method, but didn't get the chance until now. Yesterday I decided to take another look, and I found a much better way of achieving this ...

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Switching from Linux to Mac

Posted on October 6, 2009.

Embracing Minimalism Over the course of the last year, I've slowly gone through a major shift in my philosophy about technology and about life in general. I've begun to see the great value of minimalism, and as a result I've begun to strive for elegant simplicity. For a long time, ...

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Easily Working With Pinax on Multiple Machines

Posted on August 11, 2009.

I've been working on a project using the excellent Pinax platform, and I wanted to share some of the tricks I use to make it easier to work with. You can find out more about Pinax by visiting their site. I'm working with their recent 0.7beta3 release, so if you're ...

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LVM-Based Virtualization with KVM and Jaunty

Posted on April 27, 2009.

A month ago, I had three tower PCs running in my home office 24x7 - a desktop PC, a web server, and a home media server. Routinely high electric bills prompted me to make the decision to combine the two servers into one, but I wanted to do everything possible ...

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