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Posts from March 2008

About me

Chris Pirillo wrote a post that reminded me that my blog needs an about page. So I promptly put one together. Since it was done at about 1am, while procrastinating on packing for my Alps trip, it’s a bit rambly. But that’s what gives it character. I’m going off the grid for a week. Be [...]


Ustream is bringing our economy down

Check this out. There are currently 2500 people viewing Chris Pirillo’s ustream right now. He’s sitting there typing on his computer, checking his email, and making occasional comments. That’s 2500 people, at an average salary of say $30/hour, wasting a collective $1250 per minute, or $75,000 every hour on watching Chris and or chatting about [...]


The next high level language

When we used low level languages like assembly, we had to care about how the computer performed every step of our operations. With the advent of mid level languages like C, we no longer cared about registers, but we still had to know how memory was managed. With the higher level languages (Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, [...]


Calacanis is on ustream, and I don’t care

I stopped by twitter to have a look at what was happening and noticed a tweet by Jason Calacanis. He is now on ustream, broadcasting live. There are 95 people in the chatroom watching Jason talk about ustreaming and thinking about how to pipe in a bunch of video feeds and run his own little [...]


Make plans on your phone

Planypus Mobile is now available at http://m.planyp.us - simply log in with your Planypus account from your mobile phone (Opera Mini recommended) and get access to all your plans!


Seth Godin says: don’t bother with resumes

I really enjoyed Seth’s Blog on resumes, a well timed complement to my own blog on why you should blog. I didn’t go so far as Seth to suggest throwing out your resume (few employers are progressive enough for this, and it certainly would fail in any large company), but I think he’s definitely on [...]


Posted
13 March 2008 @ 7pm

Tagged
rails, ruby

webcrawler bot detection

def self.bot_agent_list
[ "panscient", "larbin", "dummy", "Teoma", "alexa",
"froogle", "inktomi", "looksmart", "URL_Spider_SQL",
"Firefly", "NationalDirectory", "Ask Jeeves", "TECNOSEEK",
"InfoSeek", "WebFindBot", "crawler", "girafobot", "Scooter",
"Baidu", "bot", "Google", "SiteUptime", "Slurp",
[...]


Elastic Server - Try it with no signup!

CohesiveFT’s Elastic Server On Demand is now open for public use without registration! We launched automatic guest accounts last week which give you the ability to play around with building Elastic Servers without signing up! Like what you see? Sign up for a free account to continue exploring beyond the 3 server guest limit.Have fun!


5 reasons you should blog

This article is for the naysayers out there who still think blogging is a joke or for people with too much time on their hands. It’s also for those people on the fence who are thinking of blogging but don’t know what to say or how to start. Here’s some motivation…some things I have personally [...]


The Future of Virtualization

Take a peek over at the CohesiveFT Elastic Server blog for a cool riff on the history and future of virtualized computing.
…you can attain true server agility because you are doing “Zero to Virtual”; building from component libraries straight to virtual servers in any VM format, with no initial physical footprint. The big win [...]


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