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.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Big Banks: Embrace Entrepreneurial Techies

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After I had been made redundant by Investment Bank A, and before starting at Big Bank B, I interviewed with a Large Teutonic Bank's cap...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

You can has tweets

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Now that my tenure at Big Bank B is drawing to a close (more of which anon when I actually have interesting technical bits to discuss), I...

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Best Multi-OS AuthN Solution?

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Dear Lazyweb, I'm going to be building a heterogenous network consisting of Linux workstations and servers, Mac workstations and laptop...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

What Type of Software Engineer Do You Aspire To Be?

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This is the opening part in a series of blog posts I'm writing in helping my nephew, who's in secondary (high to the North Americans...

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Want to know what a really fast MOM system has to handle?

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Take a look at what you have to be able to consume if you want to consume live market data from major exchange feeds: April 2009 Capacity St...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Monty Bites The Hand That Fed Him: Part 2

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(Take a look at Part One of my Monty-Watch for some background as to what I think about the situation). So Monty Widenius and Peter Zaitse...

Friday, May 15, 2009

How Many Times Can Monty Sell MySQL?

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UPDATE 2009-05-27 : Monty's spoken to Matt Aslett, and I've responded . COMMENTARY UPDATE 2009-05-27 : If you're just reading t...

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