I always laugh when ever someone has a commercial that states moving at the speed of business. I’ve seen the speed of business and its damn slow!

In a previous life, way back when we were first developing our appliances, we shipped on Sun v100 servers. They were cheap boxes that packed quite a bit of power under the hood. Sun had on their site that servers shipped within 3-5 business days.

Interactive Cloud – Nicholas Weaver(@lynxbat) from Nicholas Weaver on Vimeo.

Gotta admit, I’m pretty impressed with this. Nice Hack!

There are 3 basic rules to software programming. Most people don’t know them. Or if they do, they probably don’t know how to properly articulate them. So I’m going to spell out the 3 rules for you. This was talked about a lot at my last job early on when dealing with problems and support issues. Just about everything came back to one of these 3 rules, and unfortunately, rule 3 was more popular than even we believed.

If you are sick to the point where you are praying to the porcelain throne, you are too sick to be on call. Make sure you get that changed.

When the new iTunes 10 came out, one thing that immediately caught my eye were the close, minimize, maximize buttons (the “red, yellow green” buttons if you’re confused).

Here is what we have in iTunes 10 which is different from all the previous versions of iTunes and all other Apple software.

Hmm, I’m not sure I like the vertical buttons. The horizontal had a lot going for them. Will this be a new trend or did someone simply try something new to see how it went.