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Harrison Bergeron and Twitter

June 6, 2009

It must be true that the internet is democratizing the world, but I’m not altogether sure I’m going to love the world we get as a result.

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Thanks for the interview, Clickfire

June 4, 2009

Many thanks to the folks over at Clickfire. They were kind enough to do an interview with me which was published this morning. Much appreciated! DZone Founder Rick Ross Interview

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Never, ever, EVER compliment your ISP!

June 1, 2009

If you ever need proof that Murphy is always around, just make the silly mistake of complimenting your ISP. Within a short amount of time you will experience a network outage. The severity of the outage will, of course, be directly proportional to the importance of the person you were addressing when you gave your [...]

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Mysterious Linux RAID Problems at DZone

May 31, 2009

On New Year’s Day, 2009 we deployed a huge upgrade to the DZone data center servers, and for the most part performance has been fantastic since then. Every once in a while, however, we have a peculiar problem with RAID storage that causes one of our primary arrays to drop offline, with obvious adverse consequences [...]

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Barbarians at the Gates (of DZone)

May 26, 2009

I noticed a tweet from @bigokro the other day saying “Spam has invaded DZone… I wonder how they’ll deal with it.” and it made me realize that most people thankfully have no idea how much spam gets submitted to DZone every day and how much effort we put into protecting you from it.

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Star Trek, Berners-Lee, and DZone’s Ocean of Data

May 24, 2009

Tim Berners-Lee urges us to open up our databases and start serving up “raw data now.” I am intrigued by the possibilities, yet scared to give up competitive business advantage. What would happen if we opened up DZone’s huge databases of information about developer behavior?

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Meandering in the Mobile Marketplace at the Mall

July 15, 2008

Matt and I went to a few stores today to check out the latest in mobile phones. First we stopped by our local Best Buy, where we got some hands-on time with the new Instinct phone that Sprint hopes to position as an iPhone killer. The active feedback feature on the touchscreen was unusual, and [...]

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It’s complicated to make things easy

February 28, 2007

I’ll bet every developer I know has uttered the words, “keep it simple,” but the truth is it’s just not that easy. Simplicity is not the default state of information and processes. More often the opposite holds true, and chaos is the natural order of things, so to speak. Information and processes are made simple [...]

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