Topics

Topics I Cover

Personal

Sharing My Fitness Recipe (February 9, 2018)
The Marathon of Work and Life (June 4, 2017)
Sports, Sleep and Startups (June 4, 2017)
Relocating to the US (September 26, 2009)
Andrea Ayuso Morillo, Au Pair Vanished in Thin Air (February 21, 2008)
We are here to stay (February 14, 2008)
Being Phileas Fogg, Day 5 (September 8, 2007)
Being Phileas Fogg, Day 4 (September 8, 2007)
Being Phileas Fogg, Day 3 (September 8, 2007)
Being Phileas Fogg, Day 2 (September 8, 2007)
Being Phileas Fogg, Day 1 (September 2, 2007)
Day Off, Installing a Satellite Dish (August 27, 2007)
Silence (April 15, 2007)
Moved to hosted Wordpress (February 3, 2007)
First Entry (November 1, 2005)

Java

Java AIO (NIO.2) vs NodeJS (January 30, 2011)
Quick benchmark checkpoint on Java and NodeJS (January 23, 2011)
Facebook BigPipe in an Async Servlet (July 14, 2010)
Out of the Eclipse to Netbeans (August 20, 2009)
Painfully HTTP Java (February 11, 2009)
Are Java web frameworks ready for building frontends? (March 2, 2008)
Rails, Django, CodeIgniter, Symfony Performance Compared (February 17, 2007)
Taking the Rails to Django (June 20, 2006)
Java EE 5, still too complex (June 12, 2006)
Wicket and EJB3 (June 4, 2006)
Transactions in Rails (May 29, 2006)
Ruby on Rails and J2EE (January 5, 2006)
SOAP and RMI (November 3, 2005)

Architecture

The NodeJS Innovation Advantage (January 28, 2012)
The Cloud Search Open Source Landscape (January 9, 2012)
Composable and Concurrent (April 23, 2009)
On Language Polyglotism (April 22, 2009)
Enterprisey Architects (July 20, 2008)
Bad technology choices will chase you (February 24, 2008)
Stall by Incremental Releases (August 26, 2007)
Make your code obvious, or remove it (August 6, 2007)
Corporate Technologities: Keep the Power On! (February 13, 2007)
Failure and Success of Enterprise Architecture (February 9, 2007)
Enterprise Architecture: The Ends Don't Justify the Means (June 13, 2006)
Globus, something is not right (June 3, 2006)
SOA, can it scale? (January 9, 2006)
AJAX Performance (November 29, 2005)

Random

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose (May 29, 2010)
Why Video-On-Demand Streaming in Airlines Sucks (August 19, 2008)
Want to colonize Mars? (April 1, 2008)
Posh-Wannabes: Wannabe-A-Fly? (August 19, 2007)
NatWest Online Banking: Card Reader (August 7, 2007)
One thousand paintings (June 3, 2006)

Cloud

To SaaS or not to SaaS, a Utility-Based Decision (March 3, 2007)
Open APIs Attract Postini and Avaya to Google Apps (February 26, 2007)
Extremely Aggresive Pricing Makes Google Apps Premier Edition Sexy to Small and Medium Sized Businesses (February 22, 2007)
Microsoft's Guidance on SaaS (February 13, 2007)
The future of hosted software (September 8, 2006)
Web 2.0, The New Old? (August 21, 2006)
Pricing Models for Web 2.0 Software as Services (July 30, 2006)

Policy

Much Improvement Required in the UK Startup Ecosystem (November 26, 2013)
Snow blocks railway company websites (February 2, 2009)
Could the financial downturn be the end of Darwinism (October 11, 2008)
On Levying ISPs for DRM-Free Content (February 18, 2007)
Transport and Housing: Chicken and the Egg? (August 2, 2006)

Internet

Heads or Tails (April 7, 2009)
Can search be entertaining? (August 20, 2008)
Oops, Trying out Yahoo!'s OpenID V2 (January 19, 2008)
Google News Limited Comments, Not Cool, Not Evil, Just Careless (August 9, 2007)
Yahoo! ROBO: Research Online, Buy Offline (August 8, 2007)
The Semantic Desktop, The Semantic OS (May 1, 2007)
Increased Transparency Shows Value of YPN (February 26, 2007)
Locked out of Yahoo! Instant Messenger (February 11, 2007)
Feed aggregator: Pipes at Yahoo! (February 8, 2007)
Skype, Ebay and Google (February 7, 2007)
The B2B of Mashups: Mashboards (September 14, 2006)

Linux

Sayonara Linux Desktop (April 3, 2017)
Linux Desktop on a Dell XPS 13 (October 24, 2016)
Moving Blog to Home Server (February 3, 2008)
Will Nokia change Trolltech's Qt GPL licensing? (January 29, 2008)
Why Trolltech's Qt GPL license is hurting the Linux desktop (August 20, 2007)
Three Weeks of KDE, Too Much Configuration (August 20, 2007)
A week of KDE (killall evolution-data-server) (August 3, 2007)
Memory-lean nginx on a VPS (May 8, 2007)
Gnome Hack Idea: FreeMind, Tomboy and EDS (April 27, 2007)
Apple Cool and Insecure (February 3, 2007)

Mobile

Android Solves Rubik in 24 Seconds (May 9, 2010)
On Apple, Flash and Java (February 17, 2010)
what the iPhone is that Symbian isn't (May 13, 2008)
smart2go Free Mobile Maps Service Competes with Tom-Tom (February 9, 2007)

Internet

Brilliant Tech Video Ad (May 4, 2010)
Why facebook is just a game (May 2, 2008)
Sun Microsystems set to buy MySQL (January 16, 2008)
SUNW becomes JAVA (August 26, 2007)
Open LinkedIn Platform Should Focus on Privacy (August 21, 2007)
Measuring time spent at a site rather than hits (August 19, 2007)

Imps

Making XMPP Work for the Mobile Environment (August 9, 2009)
pywbxml revisited (January 14, 2009)
Getting libwbxml on MacPorts (January 13, 2009)
Twisted Web IMPS Echo Client (January 13, 2009)
Twisted Virtual Environment Goodness (January 13, 2009)
Will XMPP be the messaging middleware for the REST Web? (December 30, 2008)
Wireless Village Headed to the Deadpool (November 26, 2008)
AOL Opens Up AIM (March 5, 2008)

Http

Failing to Scale Out Push Web Services (February 23, 2012)
The Praxis of Event Loops (October 15, 2011)
Ahead with Node.JS and Google V8 (September 11, 2011)
Answering Jason on V8 governance and impact to NodeJS (February 6, 2011)
NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8 (February 6, 2011)
On Scaling node.js to Multiple Cores (July 10, 2010)
Nodes and Jetties (July 9, 2010)
Why node.js Matters (June 13, 2010)
The Linked-Atom Web (May 14, 2010)
A Web Linked by Atoms (March 27, 2009)

Util

Nifty Minidrive Storage Hack (February 28, 2015)
Convert Mailbox from Mail.app to Microsoft Outlook 2011 in Lion (November 9, 2012)
My Home Backup Strategy (December 9, 2011)
Markdown, An Open Document Workflow (October 15, 2011)
Railroad Diagrams from EBNF (October 10, 2011)

Sports

CooSpo H6 ANT+ and Bluetooh Heart Rate Monitor (April 29, 2017)
The Curious Case of the Elite Turbo Muin and Misuro B+ (April 16, 2017)
WaterRower vs Concept2 - A Power Study (April 15, 2017)
The benefits of rowing for runners and cyclists (April 14, 2017)
The Challenging Case of Training at Threshold (January 21, 2017)
Are lighter riders faster on Zwift? (January 3, 2017)
2016 Hever Castle Triathlon Race Report (September 25, 2016)
Rowing with the WaterRower in Zwift (December 29, 2015)
Zwift - A Virtual Reality Cycling Game (February 28, 2015)
Wahoo KICKR and CycleOps VirtualTraining (January 23, 2015)
Training and Pleurisy (December 28, 2014)
A Long Run in Marrakech (December 18, 2014)
Golden Cheetah on OS X Mavericks (April 27, 2014)

Autonomy

Autonomous Navigation (April 3, 2017)

Sports

Time Restricted Feeding for the Endurance Athlete (April 19, 2018)