Remote Revolution

Remote Revolution

These are not the wild west days of outsourcing projects to hustlers cobbling together low quality teams. This is 2015; we have GitHub, Stack Overflow, job boards for distributed teams, massive numbers of contributors to open source projects. Today quality remote workers and companies can find and evaluate each other directly.

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DynamoDB Hum

DynamoDB Hum

DynamoDB is interesting because of its ability to scale. Let us talk about the bits of DynamoDB relevant at scale.

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Ruby in Jails

Ruby in Jails

My point here is that FreeBSD and Ruby go together like peanut butter and jelly and have for many years; this is not a new thing. Matz used to hang out on freebsd-hackers and much of Ruby’s philosophy comes from that community.

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Buying Local

Buying Local

What I really want is to be able to shop an Amazon-like site that knows where I am and what stores near to me have in stock and lets me buy stuff from them via credit card/PayPal/whatever.

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