Paul’s Journal

Kevin Burton doesn’t have enough money for server(s). So, for fund raising, he is offering you the privilege of testing his product, if you pay $20.

I think this has a few major problems, that whole paying for servers idea. First off, you can’t buy that many severs, unless lots of people pay you $20. Second, if your service needs so many servers now before it is public, I think you should rethink your service. If you can’t launch a service on a few machines or even a single machine, I have little faith in your service scaling out.

Since I want to see if anyone is crazy enough to pay for a beta, I am offering an AMAZING DEAL. Buy me things off my Amazon wish list, and I will give you the privilege of testing Apache HTTPD 2.1.8-BETA. If enough people buy me stuff, I might think about working on a 2.1.9-BETA. Look at my list, you don’t even need to spend $20 like some of the competing betas. And when this is all over, you will even get the source code.

Testing Flock. I am missing the point

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Okay. Dragging Images around is kinda cool. Still missing the point on how they will make money. Just using Yahoo as a default search engine can’t make you really rich. The (forced) use of technorati tags is lame. They should insert it into my blog software. Let me make links, and don’t use hard coded ones without nofollow, which just increase Technorati’s PageRank.

Technorati Tags: tags-suck

I am looking for suggestions & experiences for forum / bulletin board software.

Wikipedia has a cute comparison of many different boards.

Nothing really seems to stand out. I looked at many of their home pages, but all of the active projects have had security issues fixed in their recent releases. Not comforting.

Of course, most of them are in PHP, and I would welcome boards in any language, but mostly I want something that is secure, that I don’t have to worry about.

Currently PunBB seems the best. Any other good ones out there?

Computerworld:

According to Rasmussen, Google’s design philosophy centres on end user loyalty not money, going beyond the browser’s lowest common denominator, to develop simple Web applications that are as dynamic as native applications, and to launch early and often to learn from users.

The real question is, if you have enough end user loyaltly, can you convert that into money? I think the answer is yes, at least on average. Make enough cool things, not all of them will be profitable, but enough will.

• Javascript sucks. Don’t use it to build your enterprise application.
• DJB sucks. Maybe he is a cool guy, but these days, I expect better quality apps.

Oh. I see the connection. Both of these stopped being cool, in like, 1998.

Programing itself isn’t hard, it just happens to deal with hard problems more often than other tasks.

I don’t personally think multi-threaded programing is inherently hard, but put a hard problem on top of a multi-threaded program, and it is still hard. I think that many people associate the disasters found in many multi-threaded programs with the hard problems they are trying to solve. Transference of hardness. Thoughts?

Great article over at the Register about Web 2.0. I really like the 2nd page, where he talks about the idiots trying to build a global operating system aka Web 2.0 on top of non-reliable services like Flickr.

So, I found this cool quote over on the web 2.0 con website. Well. What can I say, the curve balls do make life interesting….