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No post tomorrow: SOPA strike

In support of the Stop American Censorship movement against SOPA & PIPA, this site will go dark tomorrow. If you need a quick introduction to why these pieces of legislation are harmful to the...

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Best iPhone apps for New York City Transit

Being both a transit nerd and an iPhone user, I’ve tried out a bunch of iPhone apps to help me make the best of my New York City transit experience. There are 51 iPhone apps listed on the MTA’s...

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What’s it like to interview at Google?

I recently had the opportunity to interview at Google for a position in their New York office as a Technical Program Manager (TPM). I found out today that I didn’t make the cut. But in the process of...

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World IPv6 Launch Day: Where are the cloud providers?

IPv6, the next version of the Internet’s addressing scheme, is back — and this time it’s here to stay. Following up on last year’s World IPv6 Day, the Internet Society has organized World IPv6 Launch...

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HTML5: What kind of standard is this, anyway?

I haven’t written much HTML since 1996. Back in those wild west days before CSS existed, we used <font> tags and <table>-based layouts to control how websites were presented to end-users....

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Implementing Jetty Session Persistence in MongoDB

At SecondMarket, we’re moving towards a development model where not only are the deployments continuous but where deploys incur no downtime. Users should not notice if we take a portion of our servers...

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Setting up a DNS Server in Amazon EC2

I’ve written a new post for the SecondMarket Engineering blog about our experiences setting up our own DNS servers in Amazon EC2. You can read it at engineering.secondmarket.com.

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What Your CDN Won’t Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability

I was recently in San Diego giving a talk at LISA ’12 entitled “What Your CDN Won’t Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability“. The paper was based on work my colleague Blake Crosby...

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I’m joining Opscode!

Tomorrow I’ll be joining Opscode as a senior consultant for Chef. My job responsibilities will be diverse, encompassing training, evangelism, and also working on projects for customers large and small....

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Redux: Raspberry Pi as Cheap AirTunes Server

A couple of years ago I set up a Raspberry Pi as a cheap AirTunes server using Shairport. In the intervening time, I’ve also noticed a couple of defects with Shairport: high network utilization causes...

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