http://jtoee.com Putting the >O< in technology Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_306" align="alignright" width="212" caption="Project Triangle"][/caption] Achieving efficiency in the software development process is one of the key motivators every team should strive for. Efficiency can be measured in a variety of ways. The most obvious measurements are cost, project timeline, and the feature set that can be implemented given the ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/leveraging-model-driven-development/ In the light of the plethora of gloomy headlines in the past few weeks I have started taking screenshots of some of the major web sites online, maybe just to have an archive of how the world ended one day :-) I started thinking there's got to be a way to ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/creating-browser-screenshots-on-the-server-side/ We've been trying to buy an appartment or a house in the area for a few months now, and after a few failed attempts (rejected offers, failed inspections, etc), it looks like we finally found something -- an entire house up in White Plains, NY. Aside from having to adapt ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/buying-a-house-in-ny/ According to Ars Technica, youtube has introduced full-length video content also. All this video is supported by advertisement. Youtube hasn't been successfully turning the site into money yet, maybe this is a sad attempt at that. Frankly, I think it completely waters down their brand (if they really have one, that ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/youtube-starts-offering-premium-content/ Now that we're all rescued (*cough*), let's focus back on things more fun than the recession. I posted earlier about the "video bubble", notably Hulu being a trendsetter which sparked a lot of interest and other companies pursuing similar ventures. And, might I add that my company did the user ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/hulu-you-trendsetter/ I guess I kind of shifted the focus of the recent posts from anything technology related to the financial mess we're in right now. But it's pretty fascinating to me how this house of cards could have been built and how it's now collapsing rather quickly. CDOs explained CDOs, or collateralized-debt-obligations, are ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/more-ranting/ [caption id="attachment_229" align="alignright" width="231" caption="Mock Economist Cover (thanks Jason)"][/caption] My predictions just became gloomier. I fully expect the Dow to go down as far as 6000-8000 points before it recovers. Interest rates will go down in the short term, I think the Fed might very well lower them at the end ... http://jtoee.com/2008/10/gloom/ There's nothing like getting to work early to be greeted with the total meltdown of the financial system. Lehman is bankrupt, Bank of America buys Merril, etc. What in the world is going on. Really? Bank of America is still doing alright, that's comforting. But it seems to me that the ... http://jtoee.com/2008/09/wtf/ It looks like VMWare ESX server is no longer the only freely available bare metal hypervisor (i.e. one that doesn't require a full-blown OS but runs directly on the hardware). I tried to play with ESX but was kind of put off by the particular enterprise hardware it required, there ... http://jtoee.com/2008/09/217/ Crap. First FireFox crashed, then, when restarting, it told me it needed to install updates. After hitting the ok button, it tries the update again, fails. Ad infinitum. WTF?? Do I have to use Chrome now afterall? ;) http://jtoee.com/2008/09/the-death-of-firefox/