Austin Mills: Code, Methodologies, Games, etc.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
Wondering, as I was, where the ‘Move Window’ option went to? Or the Restore/Size/Move/Maximize/Minimize options? Just shift-right-click on the app in the taskbar and you’ll get that menu.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2009
Benjamin Black has a great post up about why SLAs are pretty much worthless. I agree — SLAs are a minor nice-to-have item but the cost to your business of any downtime is going to be so much greater — maybe 10x or more — and all they do is refund the cost of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2009
Over at the EngineYard blog, they have a couple of posts on working with RoR apps at scale, on general scaling and on sharding your database. We’ve had to do a few of these things already for certain customers and will hopefully have to do more in the future, but I think one of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
Just got back from a nice ride over by the lake on Lime Creek Road — quite a fun ride, with lots of turns and some beautiful scenery along the way. And for all those who wanted to see some pics of the two of us on our bikes, check out the Flickr set.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
Strafe Left was a favorite comic series of mine that I always enjoyed seeing in PC Gamer. This one was one of my favorites, and (as the artist himself says in the comments on that post) was the reason that SL got booted from PC Gamer.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2008
I love that Austin’s mayor is the kind of guy who would lead a Thriller dance performance:
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
Firefly - The Complete Series — $17 for the complete set of one of the best SF series ever on TV.
You now have no excuse to:
Not own Firefly
Not have given Firefly to a friend
Not have given Firefly to complete stranger
That is all.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2008
“I was shot 14 times on my way to work today, including twice by police,” said one Algonquin-area resident. “That is unacceptable.” –from the Onion
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2008
I’ve shipped many things over the years, more often than not with UPS. I’ve had packages lost, packages damaged (including one that was run over by an airplane), and one package that was dropped so hard that it shattered the bookshelf speakers inside it. Each time, I’ve come away with it with at least an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008
In my day job I work on providing systems for remote monitoring and control of devices, and providing interfaces to and analysis of device data. When starting a project, there’s a great deal of flexibility as to what language you’re going to use, what front-end tools and architecture, etc. It gets you into the [...]