Macbook Air Multiple Monitor Support
The Macbook Air is indeed an “insanely great” device. I have slammed this thing around, physically and virtually, from the bicycle messenger bag situation described in my buying decision post, all the way to running multiple virtual machines and multiple monitors! This machine, of course if you’re using lean, clean, powerful, and intelligent built software, [...]
The Non-Microsoft Realm, Collecting Rubies Part I
Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic [...]
WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free
I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video [...]
Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles
This is a follow up to the previous blog entry I wrote pertaining to Windows Azure Roles. I wanted to cover the bases on the various technical aspects of creating a Windows Azure Web Role & Worker Role in Visual Studio 2010. Without interruption let’s just dive right in. Start Visual Studio 2010 and initiate a new [...]
How to hold a Professional Focus Group that Produces Quantifiable Results
As part of our recent enterprise level research for a yet-to-be named ground breaking product, we conducted a focus group this week that featured a few of the industry’s top experts. The amount of preparation time involved prior to the day long event far exceeded the actual event and in hindsight could have been shortened. [...]
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Why did it take until 1946 for the first computer to be invented? All of the elements were in place by 1918. It’s not because there weren’t companies capable of creating the computer. In fact in the late 1800’s over 1000 electrical apparatus companies were formed to build electric devices. 6 elements of knowledge need [...]
