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.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sybase JDBC Drivers Ignore Your Database Selection

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A very common strategy in doing database-driven functional tests is for each user to have their own database instance on a shared test machi...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Oracle + Sun : A Java Perspective

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Smarter people than I have written about this , but having worked at several of the major players here (a summer at Oracle proper, 12 months...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

My Ideal Social Network

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I'm relatively plugged in. I blog (you're soaking in it now!); I have a FriendFeed ; I tweet (and those of you who need to know who...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Rise Of The Appliances

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I've posted before [1] on my desire for someone to sell me an AMQP Appliance , and while nobody has yet (probably the fact that 1.0 is i...

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Google Launches VC Arm

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This has been all over teh interwebs. It's not actually that unusual for a large, cash-rich technology firm to have its own VC arm: In...

Sunday, March 29, 2009

From The Economist Entrepreneurship Special Report

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In the March 14 2009 Economist Special Report on Entrepreneurship , one choice snippet to cut out (emphasis added by yours truly): The Eu...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Recruiter Tip #1: Don't Block Your Phone Number

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(Part of a series I'm starting on how to be a better technical recruiter). One of the things that's most annoying about dealing wi...

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