Author Archives: Michael Koby

Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks. Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday. Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-28

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Philosophil’s cafe: Unit test guidelines (Part 1) (tags: development tdd)

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Social Media Burnout (again?)

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

Over the past week and a half to two weeks, I have been experiencing a little bit of social media burnout.  I haven’t been really active on Digg in about a month or 2, I haven’t logged into FriendFeed in … Continue reading →

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Presidential Cadnidates & Their Pastors [Video]

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

This week’s video I call into question the uproar over the presidential canidates and the things their pastor(s) say. Really folks, there are real issues to consider. Why are we focused on something as trivial as this? Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-27

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

Sandy — your free personal email assistant (tags: free organization productivity iwantsandy reference)

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Win-X-Move

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Michael Koby

Last night my friend (another Linux junkie stuck in a Windows world) showed me a small little application called Win-X-Move.  This program is probably the coolest thing since sliced bread.  It gives you the ability to move and resize windows … Continue reading →

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