Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Fannie Mae Employee Attempts Network Armageddon

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Yet again, Thanks to El Reg . A few quick points here: If you don't have an air-gapped (or WORM) backup/archival solution, you're...

Monday, January 26, 2009

More on London vs. Valley

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Just a quick follow up on this morning's epic rant about London and Funding . Read this from the Futurist: "Why Government Is Set...

Want a London Tech Sector? Invest In Startups

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I've written previously about moves to set up a London TechHub , and I've spoken disparagingly (some might say "ranted") a...

Thursday, January 22, 2009

I Use Product X, AMQP Is Irrelevant To Me

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As I've gotten more involved with the greater AMQP community, and as I've talked more and more about it with people who already ...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Extprot: A Very Cool Idea

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Another thing that I ran across today is the release of Extprot . Very quick rundown: Packed binary encoding of message data (a la Thrift, G...

Great Rundown On Key-Value Stores

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In the event that you're interested in the general area of key-value stores (Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB), you should read this article by ...

Friday, January 16, 2009

Open Source: It's All About The Community

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I wanted to take a look at an open source project/product yesterday evening (I'm not going to name them for obvious reasons). In order f...

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