Once you’re a couple behind it’s over. They take a couple half hour downtimes a year for schema upgrades. Lesson: Keep up with upgrades. Lesson: You need a queue - start with one. You don’t need 99.999% availability yet as a startup. Typekit, in standard Lean Startup fashion, announced in a press release before there was anything to gauge interest, then a funding round, then 6 months later (of 4 people working full time) to get 1.0 out. Most possible outcomes mean your startup infrastructure will go away at some point. Look for "excuses" to build the infrastructure you need (business and technical). So technical debt is OK, just like normal debt; it’s incurred for agility but like financial must be dealt with promptly. The main chrome app needs to be running, but the tab windows can be detached from the main window and placed elsewhere on your desktop, much like Safari’s Site-Specific Browsers (SSB) and Fluid (Mac OS X application). In TCP there's something called the "window." And the window is essentially "advertised," is the jargon used. At the same time, Simon Stewart at ThoughtWorks developed a superior browser automation tool called WebDriver.
Chris, Peco, James and I were on the same flight, all went well and we ended up at Kabul for a meaty dinner to fortify us for the many iffy breakfasts and lunches to come. These same possibilities apply to the comparison of two record values for equality. Releasing a browser with a security flaw that was fixed months ago already is a pretty dismal start of Chrome’s security track record. The Free Java Devroom was run by Tom Marble who did a great job keeping things on track and on-time over the weekend. We also comb over the news, with the big NVIDIA / ARM deal falling through, costing around 1.25 billion dollars (insert Dr. Evil theme here) since it was done as a deposit for a successful transaction. You want battle tested, well understood infrastructure here. He does say in that case, leverage existing infrastructure unless it’s very bad, then spend effort on making it better instead of focusing on new product ideas.
He cites Small Batch Inc., which did a "How to start a company" conference first thing, forcing incorporation and bank accounts and liability insurance and all that, and then Wikirank, which was not "the product" but an excuse to get everyone working together and learn new tech and run a site as a throwaway before diving into a product. John Tyman was born in England and after service in the British army and study at Oxford University he moved to Canada in 1959, first to McGill University in Montreal and then to Brandon, Manitoba, where he established the Department of Geography in 1962. His particular academic interest then was historical and cultural geography, and his doctoral thesis at Oxford examined processes at work in pioneer settlement, on the Prairies in general and Western Manitoba in particular. Below 800 Calories a day, resistance training may work but you’re on your own because no scientist has tread there yet. The different is that there is a system and framework that allows average people to produce above-average work (yet still command only an average salary). Having an encrypted system to keep your passwords is a good idea and allows you to use a different password for each item.
In preparing the notes to accompany the text I have made much use of: Guaman Poma; New Chronicle and Good Government, reflecting conditions in South America following the Spanish conquest. He notes the three kinds of startups - venture funded, bootstrapped, and big company internal. As a result I took an incredible number of notes. Ok, so the fun part about being in the Java Ecosystem is that it’s always trying new things, and the interesting new "thing" that seems to be happening is the ability to offload your "JIT" (Just In Time) compilation into the Cloud! "Instead of you building a tiny beautiful cloud castle in the corner that gets ignored." Ouch! 2 - Your time is valuable, Don’t waste it. Now it’s time for the first session! I’m here with Chris, Larry, and Victor from Bazaarvoice and our new friends Kevin, Bob, and Morgan from Powerreviews which is now Bazaarvoice’s West Coast office; Peco is here with Charlie from Opnet, and James is here… Mentor Graphics. Our old friends from National Instruments Robert, Eric, and Matt are here too. Sadly he’s not going to talk about big company internal startups, but heck, we did that already at National Instruments so fair enough!
