Normally I don’t read unsolicited email but this one caught my eye. Reposting here because I think it’s interesting:
From: info@johncompanies.com
To: [me]
Subject: rsync.net - New from John, of JohnCompanies…
Dear JohnCompanies Customer,
I am starting a new venture: www.rsync.net.
rsync.net is not part of JohnCompanies, but is a complementary service.
rsync.net is online, geo-redundant, fault tolerant storage. [...]
What programming language would you use if you wanted to write some server code that needs to run on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux?
Specifically, the software runs as a server. Ideally it will be able to run the same codebase a) on the desktop for a single user , b) on an intranet [...]
[Part 23 of a continuing series on building a new project.]
I am slowly (very slowly) building up a codebase for a new project. The motivation is partly that I’d like to see these things exist so I can personally use them. For example, I’d like a sticky-note type application (Nassau) that I can [...]
[Part 22 of a continuing series on building a new project.]
The following offers a brief overview of the various services that are being built to support the new project.
Orchard: An identity server. The Orchard server will be responsible for managing user authentication and credentialing, as well as managing user preferences and settings. [...]
[Williams senior, WSO superstar, and incoming A9-er, Evan Miller, corners me by simultaneously writing me an email and posting it on his blog. This is my reply.]
To: Evan
Subject: Re: Are letters better than blogs?
Evan,
Congratulations on coming up with a clever way of getting me to respond to an email. I’ve fallen way behind [...]
With all the talk about Google acquiring online text-editor company Writely, why hasn’t anyone (that I’ve read) pointed out the obvious?
The Writely acquisition means that Google has not already developed their own “GOffice” suite.
You know, the one that everyone has been speculating about for three years. The Microsoft killer?
Nathan gets it right [...]
To all the visitors dropping by from Scripting News, I just wanted to say a public thank you to Dave for being such a nice guy regarding the whole OpenSearch subject. My work on OpenSearch was influenced in so many ways by what Dave has done with RSS. It literally builds upon his [...]
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