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BarcampLA-6 presentationOctober 26

This weekend is the sixth instance of BarcampLA, and for the fifth time I’m presenting. This time it’s a somewhat technical topic - multithreading. Here are the presentation slides:

what every web and app developer should know about multithreading
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OpenTweet - distributed twitter-like service?May 3

Scott Hanselman in this tweet (and on his blog) proposed a sort of a distributed tweet server to serve as an alternative to Twitter. He points out that this has been proposed before, and even implemented to some degree.

On the surface, Twitter is a feed of messages — combined with many ways of getting messages to the service, as well as many ways of getting messages from the service, plus a framework for subscribing to others’ feed and seeing others’ friends’ feeds.

A single user can certainly host their own feed, and (via some soon-to-be-established) microformat link to this feed. Assuming that we discount the issue of maintaining your own feed, how will people find your feed? How will they subscribe to it in a way that incorporates the rest of their friends’ feeds? How will replies and direct messages (both excellent features of twitter) be implemented in such a model? Let’s dissect these in more detail.

Finding a feed

The low-tech, least-usable way of doing this is, of course, to just tell the reader to find the publisher’s site, find the tweetfeed link, and add it to their rea

OLPC and the world economic imbalanceDecember 25 2007

In ways typical of his usual punditry, John C. Dvorak decides to bash the One Laptop Per Child project. He reaches into his bag of over-the-top comparisons and sly turns of phrase, and argues that the laptop project is just the rich West being guilted into doing something for poor Africans and choosing this totally inappropriate remedy.

The British pundit Bill Thompson answers Dvorak and pokes holes in his argument — and does a wonderful job of bringing a dose of reality into the conversation.

The argument isn’t the first one out there. The debate about the OLPC has been going on ever since Nicholas Negroponte started talking about the project. It’s been both praised and criticized on aspects ranging from its technology, its cost, its educational value, and every single other conceivable aspect of its existence.

The strongest argument, however, is not one based on the OLPC at all. While talking about a green computer for kids, we are really getting in the middle of a long-standing debate in the West about how to approach post-colonial Africa and other deve

Great job foundDecember 25 2007

By the way, I now work at Hulu, and totally loving it. If anyone else is interested in a job, and can stand up to the challenge, I definitely welcome emails or comments to this post.

Looking for a great jobSeptember 12 2007

After almost 6 years of working on the product, I’ve resigned from Kareo. It’s been a great journey through growing as a software developer and improving my architecture skills, spending almost two years as the manager of the development team, and in general seeing a real business grow from its foundation to something real. However, it’s now time to move on.

So to that end I’ve begun looking for a new place to work. (Here’s my resume, by the way). I’m not totally sure where I’ll end up, but I know about a few things that excite me (both on the business front as well as the technological front):