Posts about Technology I like
TweetSo professionally, this was an interesting week for me. Wednesday, Chegg shipped their new eReader which is the project I’ve been working on since August. It’s HTML5, and its a faithful representation of the books (more on why that’s important in a bit). Thursday, Apple shipped an upgraded iBooks, announced a new textbook initiative...
TweetThere’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon tells this stuck-up guy in a bar: ” You blew $150,000 on an education you could have gotten for a $1.50 in late charges at the public library.” Bar Scene from Good Will Hunting Something I’ve done for years is prowl around...
TweetThis is just a piece of mac OSX voodoo: I never use Software Update for a major OS upgrade, I always use the combo installer. Even though it’s a larger download, the combo updater ends up refreshing a big hunk of your OS so any bits that have rotted get fixed. I’ve also used...
TweetI cannot for the life of me figure out why people use MySQL when they have DB2 to choose from. DB2 is free for 1 core and 1GB of I/O buffer and as much data as you want. 99% of the websites in the world could run just fine on free DB2. The workgroup...
