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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Houston TechFest 2008
If you live in the Houston area and are a developer (especially if you develop on Microsoft technology) you will want to check out Houston TechFest 2008. This even will be held on September 13th, 2008 (a Saturday) and registration … Continue reading
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Tagged houston techfest, programming, techfest
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Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability
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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Win-X-Move
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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FSF Spreads FUD
The Free Software Foundation, today posted an article about the NBC/Microsoft hiccup involving broadcast flags (article). There are a couple of things wrong with this article but the main point I want to focus on is the fact that they go to great lengths to make Microsoft the bad guy in this little fiasco. Continue reading
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Tagged broadcast flag, dvr, fsf, Microsoft, nbc
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Austin CodeCamp 2008
This past weekend I attended Austin CodeCamp 2008. My first true “geek meeting” and I have to say, a ton of fun. I got to see a co-worker present, talk to other developers, and really be engrossed in something I thoroughly enjoy. Continue reading
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*YAWN* aka New iPhone Announced
In case you can’t tell, my general overall opinion on today’s announcements is lackluster at best. We have features that people up and down claimed should have been in the first iteration (but I’m sure the Apple fan-boys will back-pedal on these previous statements under the guise of “Apple can do no wrong”). I’m overly unimpressed, and was honestly expecting more from Apple. Continue reading →