Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Downtime

We had a couple of hours of downtime last night due to a server failure. Sorry about that guys. I know that the timing was bad just after we put up out great hedge funds article.
We’ll invest in redundant servers as soon as we launch our product. It’s hard to justify that kind of expense […]

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Save $1,285 per Computer and Still Remain Business-ready

(In the scope of this article, I assume a typical office-environment that include standard PCs running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Office.)
Everyone knows that buying software can be really expensive, and I can see why both private users and businesses sometimes use illegal copies of software. However, I can also see why software is expensive. Software […]

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

We Bought The Wrong Cam

The other day me and Viktor were thinking that Viktor sure gets a lot of attention because of his awesome webcam. So we figured we ought to get one too! After all, I have a great view of Silicon Valley just out my window here. We could be the ‘Valley Cam’ or something catchy like […]

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Why Can’t Experienced Programmers Solve an Easy Problem?

I have recently had the peculiar experience of trying to hire software developers. I have read resumes, posted on different job boards, talked to people live and by phone.
The funny thing is that I have had to reject almost every single applicant.
You might say that perhaps I was too demanding. That’s certainly possible, but I […]

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Blogger.com Died, Hackaton Survived

Blogger decided it didn’t want to stay up during our hackaton. I’m not sure why but Blogger seems to be having a lot of issues lately. Anyhow, that didn’t keep us from finishing an initial site design, get some code written and get our new intra web server almost fully configured before we had to […]