Daily Entries

I just thought I’d give my subscribers a heads up. This weekend I’ll be moving my blog, corporate website, and email server to a new server in a colocation facility. My install is tomorrow morning at 9am, so I’ll make the DNS changes Friday night. Hopefully by Monday morning, they’ll be more or less propogated.…

I stumbled across this link on del.icio.us earlier today called “Is Ethical Consulting Possible?“. It discusses an ethical concern for consultants. “The basic ethical challenge of consulting is that the acting in the client’s best interest is often in conflict with the consultant’s business goal of maximizing revenue and profit from the engagement. It is…

Well, last night I took the plunge and upgraded my blog engine to version 1.9 from version 1.5. This was only supposed to be an update from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0, but it seems that Phil Haack and his team decided to go crazy. After the upgrade, a bunch of things didn’t work, for example…

To celebrate the fact that today is the one year anniversary of hiring its first employee, Moon River Software is hiring again. If you’re interested, here are the details of the open position. If you have any questions, please get in touch via the email address on the job listing.

When I was first implementing SubText as my blog engine, I had run into problems with ReverseDOS and ended up ripping out the entire configuration for it. How much comment spam could I possibly get? It turns out a lot. So today I went back and set up my ReverseDOS configuration file. Hopefully that will…

Late last night, someone Digged my article on Software Startup Myths Debunked and it landed on the front page of both the Digg Technology section and the Digg homepage. My poor business class DSL connection is probably still crying. To help alleviate the pain, I went through my style sheets and removed some of the…

About two weeks ago, I published an article called “Startups for the rest of us” where I criticized Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator program as not being a viable option for the somewhat older crowd of developers and explained some of the downfalls of the program. It would appear that Paul read my article at some point…

I had a router go bad today on me around 7 am this morning. No real reason for it I don’t think, but my server was unavailable most of the day. Pretty soon, I’ll be moving the server into a colocation facility and won’t have to worry about router issues. More on that later.

I stumbled across this link to The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman on del.icio.us the other day and put it on my ‘toread’ list. The idea of a Personal MBA program is one that I started on my own months ago with what I was going to call “Mike’s Bookshelf”. His name is much cooler…

I just read a Wired news article that illustrates yet another case of blatant security stupidity. It turns out that some ATM’s used by a specific vendor were configured without changing the default passwords. This allows you to essentially reprogram the ATM machine using nothing more than the ATM screen and a copy of the…