A new round of industry standard benchmarks coming soon for some of our kit. Well, its technically our appliance built from that platform, but you’ll be hearing more on that soon. Very exciting times … you’ll hear more about this soon.

Many of our functions are hosted on our Virtualization appliance. Our firewall is now running on a siRouter appliance. As always, our internal storage is JackRabbit, and our internal backup is DeltaV. We’ll be talking more about all of this in short order. Needless to say, I am quite pleased about this. [update] spoke too soon .. discovered a routing failure that was masked in the appliance. Reverting to the old setup until we can address.

What many of us worried about years ago was whether or not we weer electing an empty suit to the highest political office in the land. Someone with no experience running anything. With no great accomplishments upon which to build. Simply a moderate orator with a teleprompter. 5 years in, our worst fears don’t even appear to scratch the surface of the failure that we have brought upon ourselves. This piece at the Wall Street Journal is so completely spot on.

I’ve been rewriting Tiburon to provide a completely sane restful interface. It still does what it did before, but now … it does it so much more nicely! First: I got rid of the config file. Some folks were having trouble with JSON config files. Creating them is very easy, they are key value stores in 90% of the cases, with the remaining 10% being a “default” key, and then the value.

as Alaskan Malamute v0.10. I’m a dog guy, what can I say. Hopefully full boot server semantics will be done by end of weekend.

There are a few gotcha’s that I am working through. But apart from these (mostly oddities in the interface between Perl and MongoDB), this is making Tiburon RESTful development go much better. I’ve just started to scratch the surface of what the combined thing will do. landman@lightning:~/work/development/tiburon/t$ ./version.pl result = $VAR1 = '{ "version" : "0.1", "label" : "Alaskan Malamute" }'; and landman@lightning:~/work/development/tiburon/t$ ./list_boot_servers.pl result = $VAR1 = ' [ { "hostport" : "3001", "_id" : "523d540e9745f48429000000", "name" : "test1", "default" : "false", "hostname" : "10.

I didn’t quite see this one in all its glory, but had an inkling that things were not as they appeared to be. Annoying, but one lives, learns, and continues. No details.

Traction, paying customers, revenue and cashflow are what matter to small businesses looking to grow up. In many ways we (the day job) were lucky as we built a sustainable business first, with real customers and real revenue. Most startups don’t do that. They have a change the world idea, and then try to evangelize this whilst building a business. Sometimes they have to “pivot” or … change focus to an idea that will work at turning into a business.

PR from the day job. Remember I’ve been dying to tell people about the ultra cool project we’ve been working on for the last year? Well, this is it. More soon, but I am thrilled we can talk about it now!

Seriously … My daughter is taking a computer class, and for reasons I cannot fathom, they are using an AP Java book (an old one at that, written when Java 5 was new), and more importantly and more concerningly, the Java language itself. I’ve got many qualms about using Java for teaching (or development, but thats for other posts). For new students, early exposure to its rigid and verbose … one might argue … excessively verbose … syntax and structure, don’t quite lend themselves to an understanding of how algorithms and computers work.