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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, [...]

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 server [...]

[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 embed [...]

[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. Whenever [...]

[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 [...]