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Out of curiosity, is anyone in the audience using Git? I've begun to hear about it fairly often (it's Linus Torvald's reportedly semi-radical overhaul of CM), and I'm curious what it's like to use in practice. While I suspect CommYou will continue to use Subversion for its core code, I don't rule out the possibility of something else for the likely eventual open-source components, and I like to stay up on the options in this area...
Jul. 22nd, 2008
Out of curiosity, is anyone in the audience using Git? I've begun to hear about it fairly often (it's Linus Torvald's reportedly semi-radical overhaul of CM), and I'm curious what it's like to use in practice. While I suspect CommYou will continue to use Subversion for its core code, I don't rule out the possibility of something else for the likely eventual open-source components, and I like to stay up on the options in this area...
So there's this Hannaford's ad that has been in heavy rotation lately. I've never bothered to actually *look* at it, but it starts out,
"Good news for the people... (beat) (beat) who feed the people... (beat) (beat) who eat... (beat) (beat)"
It then continues with, "and eat", since it's *supposed* to be aimed at mothers with a brood to feed. But my brain absolutely *insists*, every single time, on completing the sentence with "people"...
"Good news for the people... (beat) (beat) who feed the people... (beat) (beat) who eat... (beat) (beat)"
It then continues with, "and eat", since it's *supposed* to be aimed at mothers with a brood to feed. But my brain absolutely *insists*, every single time, on completing the sentence with "people"...
So there's this Hannaford's ad that has been in heavy rotation lately. I've never bothered to actually *look* at it, but it starts out,
"Good news for the people... (beat) (beat) who feed the people... (beat) (beat) who eat... (beat) (beat)"
It then continues with, "and eat", since it's *supposed* to be aimed at mothers with a brood to feed. But my brain absolutely *insists*, every single time, on completing the sentence with "people"...
"Good news for the people... (beat) (beat) who feed the people... (beat) (beat) who eat... (beat) (beat)"
It then continues with, "and eat", since it's *supposed* to be aimed at mothers with a brood to feed. But my brain absolutely *insists*, every single time, on completing the sentence with "people"...
I was rather amused to see that it's still possible for the big sites to completely Slashdot themselves. That's what apparently happened this morning, after TechCrunchIT declared that they were getting into the hardware game -- the site was totally inaccessible for several hours, presumably because they got slammed with traffic.
Now that things are back up, I do recommend checking it out, especially if you're a cool-toys geek and double-especially if you might have something to contribute. The idea is pretty simple: they're planning on taking a fairly standard Linux stack, and focusing on building the web tablet so many of us want. Thin as a MacBook Air, teeny solid-state hard drive, thoroughly underpowered for anything *but* the Web (but not intended to be used for anything other than the web), easy to use and *cheap*. Open source from top to bottom, so that anybody who wants to produce a knockoff can do so.
It's damned interesting, and I suspect they could pull it off: pretty much all the necessary software pieces exist, so they just need to be put together into a commodity package. If they can manage it for the sub-$300 price they're targeting (and I don't see much reason why they couldn't), I'd buy one in a heartbeat: it fills the niche between full-powered laptop and smartphone quite nicely. Exactly how much I'd use it would depend on how good a touchpad keyboard they have, but even with a fairly crappy one I can think of a bunch of ways I'd use it...
Now that things are back up, I do recommend checking it out, especially if you're a cool-toys geek and double-especially if you might have something to contribute. The idea is pretty simple: they're planning on taking a fairly standard Linux stack, and focusing on building the web tablet so many of us want. Thin as a MacBook Air, teeny solid-state hard drive, thoroughly underpowered for anything *but* the Web (but not intended to be used for anything other than the web), easy to use and *cheap*. Open source from top to bottom, so that anybody who wants to produce a knockoff can do so.
It's damned interesting, and I suspect they could pull it off: pretty much all the necessary software pieces exist, so they just need to be put together into a commodity package. If they can manage it for the sub-$300 price they're targeting (and I don't see much reason why they couldn't), I'd buy one in a heartbeat: it fills the niche between full-powered laptop and smartphone quite nicely. Exactly how much I'd use it would depend on how good a touchpad keyboard they have, but even with a fairly crappy one I can think of a bunch of ways I'd use it...
I was rather amused to see that it's still possible for the big sites to completely Slashdot themselves. That's what apparently happened this morning, after TechCrunchIT declared that they were getting into the hardware game -- the site was totally inaccessible for several hours, presumably because they got slammed with traffic.
Now that things are back up, I do recommend checking it out, especially if you're a cool-toys geek and double-especially if you might have something to contribute. The idea is pretty simple: they're planning on taking a fairly standard Linux stack, and focusing on building the web tablet so many of us want. Thin as a MacBook Air, teeny solid-state hard drive, thoroughly underpowered for anything *but* the Web (but not intended to be used for anything other than the web), easy to use and *cheap*. Open source from top to bottom, so that anybody who wants to produce a knockoff can do so.
It's damned interesting, and I suspect they could pull it off: pretty much all the necessary software pieces exist, so they just need to be put together into a commodity package. If they can manage it for the sub-$300 price they're targeting (and I don't see much reason why they couldn't), I'd buy one in a heartbeat: it fills the niche between full-powered laptop and smartphone quite nicely. Exactly how much I'd use it would depend on how good a touchpad keyboard they have, but even with a fairly crappy one I can think of a bunch of ways I'd use it...
Now that things are back up, I do recommend checking it out, especially if you're a cool-toys geek and double-especially if you might have something to contribute. The idea is pretty simple: they're planning on taking a fairly standard Linux stack, and focusing on building the web tablet so many of us want. Thin as a MacBook Air, teeny solid-state hard drive, thoroughly underpowered for anything *but* the Web (but not intended to be used for anything other than the web), easy to use and *cheap*. Open source from top to bottom, so that anybody who wants to produce a knockoff can do so.
It's damned interesting, and I suspect they could pull it off: pretty much all the necessary software pieces exist, so they just need to be put together into a commodity package. If they can manage it for the sub-$300 price they're targeting (and I don't see much reason why they couldn't), I'd buy one in a heartbeat: it fills the niche between full-powered laptop and smartphone quite nicely. Exactly how much I'd use it would depend on how good a touchpad keyboard they have, but even with a fairly crappy one I can think of a bunch of ways I'd use it...
CommYou 0.2 released
Jul. 22nd, 2008 05:25 pmAfter longer than I would have preferred, the next major CommYou release is out. This one starts the big experiments: in particular, it integrates CommYou with IM (at least Jabber-based IM), so we can now start to see how that works.
I'm not going to press new folks to go join Facebook in order to try this out at this point, because I think it's time to deal with the LiveJournal integration. I'm going to try to do that in the next few weeks -- once that's done, you should be able to simply sign into CommYou with your LJ credentials, and it'll pick up your flist and stuff automatically.
But for folks who are already using CommYou: come play! The new functions are intensely experimental, but I've gotten it to the point where it's starting to feel right...
I'm not going to press new folks to go join Facebook in order to try this out at this point, because I think it's time to deal with the LiveJournal integration. I'm going to try to do that in the next few weeks -- once that's done, you should be able to simply sign into CommYou with your LJ credentials, and it'll pick up your flist and stuff automatically.
But for folks who are already using CommYou: come play! The new functions are intensely experimental, but I've gotten it to the point where it's starting to feel right...
CommYou 0.2 released
Jul. 22nd, 2008 05:25 pmAfter longer than I would have preferred, the next major CommYou release is out. This one starts the big experiments: in particular, it integrates CommYou with IM (at least Jabber-based IM), so we can now start to see how that works.
I'm not going to press new folks to go join Facebook in order to try this out at this point, because I think it's time to deal with the LiveJournal integration. I'm going to try to do that in the next few weeks -- once that's done, you should be able to simply sign into CommYou with your LJ credentials, and it'll pick up your flist and stuff automatically.
But for folks who are already using CommYou: come play! The new functions are intensely experimental, but I've gotten it to the point where it's starting to feel right...
I'm not going to press new folks to go join Facebook in order to try this out at this point, because I think it's time to deal with the LiveJournal integration. I'm going to try to do that in the next few weeks -- once that's done, you should be able to simply sign into CommYou with your LJ credentials, and it'll pick up your flist and stuff automatically.
But for folks who are already using CommYou: come play! The new functions are intensely experimental, but I've gotten it to the point where it's starting to feel right...
Oops -- try that again tomorrow
Jul. 22nd, 2008 09:25 pmWell, that's embarassing. If I'm reading these symptoms and logs correctly, the new IM capabilities aren't working correctly in a realistic multi-user environment. I believe it's a dumb bug, and shouldn't be hard to fix, but it'll take until sometime tomorrow to get it all correct. My apologies for the false alarm -- I'll pass on word once it's fixed.
(Nothing like a release to show you where there is a hole in your automated test coverage. In this case, everything is fine unless you have multiple people listening to the same conversation, in which case things get routed wrong. Time for some new regression tests...)
(Nothing like a release to show you where there is a hole in your automated test coverage. In this case, everything is fine unless you have multiple people listening to the same conversation, in which case things get routed wrong. Time for some new regression tests...)
Oops -- try that again tomorrow
Jul. 22nd, 2008 09:25 pmWell, that's embarassing. If I'm reading these symptoms and logs correctly, the new IM capabilities aren't working correctly in a realistic multi-user environment. I believe it's a dumb bug, and shouldn't be hard to fix, but it'll take until sometime tomorrow to get it all correct. My apologies for the false alarm -- I'll pass on word once it's fixed.
(Nothing like a release to show you where there is a hole in your automated test coverage. In this case, everything is fine unless you have multiple people listening to the same conversation, in which case things get routed wrong. Time for some new regression tests...)
(Nothing like a release to show you where there is a hole in your automated test coverage. In this case, everything is fine unless you have multiple people listening to the same conversation, in which case things get routed wrong. Time for some new regression tests...)