The Shining freaked my out as a young child. My best friend’s mother, Bev Davies, took myself and her son Keif to her friends house and we watched it on…well it was either VHS or Beta. The movie itself was scary but the part that really, really got me was when either her […]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Barcamp Vancouver 2007 - Mik Lernout from MAKE Technologies
Saturday, August 18, 2007
We interviewed Mik when he was moving to Vancouver. We had an accepted offer but at the last minute he took one from MAKE instead. I don’t hold it against him - Mik’s an intelligent guy, always interested in new horizons and I’d welcome the opportunity to work with him. It’s always […]
Barcamp Vancouver 2007 - Darko Hrgovic from Agentic.ca
Saturday, August 18, 2007
This talk was quite close to some of the work we’ve been doing for the UN. It’s an example of something we could do by using google maps as the map server. To me the cool part comes when you can take arbitrary data sets and start to do drill down analyses/data exploration.
Darko […]
Barcamp Vancouver 2007 - Mark Mayo from Joyent
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Timely talk as we’re moving our dev and staging environment to be Xen-based. My major questions are scaling databases that weren’t setup for this infrastructure and production stability of the existing services. My raw notes:
Mark Mayo
Joyent.com
- Virtualization - gave a quick overview of the state of virtualization.
-linux OS guys pushing back that […]
Deja Vu
Thursday, August 16, 2007
I recently took a trip to Toquart Bay, a forest service campsite I hadn’t been to since about 1992. Fifteen years, I am getting older! When I was last there my wife and I had a great time - a beautiful location, not too many people, no RV’s (a few trucks with campers […]
