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Joe sent me yet another good link, to an article on GigaOm: Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation. It pretty much describes the way I work.
I recall when I was 16, my first IT job… I went to work because I wanted to play with routers and servers but I just couldn’t afford to buy [...]

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My colleague Joe Ammond pointed out a great post on the RightScale blog discussing the Animoto application’s ability to scale dynamically using Amazon cloud services. I’m impressed by what they’ve accomplished, and the article is worth reading. Especially interesting is their use of queues to control how many server instances are required.
What Animoto CTO Stevie [...]

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Wow, it’s been an eventful afternoon. Nothing of lasting impact, but a strange collection of improbable events.
I spent the day at Savvis’ office in Herndon. This is my first time traveling since I fell ill late last year, so it’s a bit of an event for me. But the office, hotel, my meetings, etc, went [...]

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