Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends and readers!

For a project at work I’ve been working a lot with web services, creating a new one and tweaking an existing one. That work got me to thinking that not only can you have brittle code, but you can have brittle web services as well. [...]

I talked briefly on Twitter about me getting a new phone to replace my beat-up Blackberry. Instead of a new iPhone 3GS, I decided to get the HTC Dream, more commonly known as the G-1 to my American readers. My carrier is Rogers Wireless, so no switching required *or* extending of my term. [...]

I talked about this briefly on Twitter but I am wondering if we are at the edge of an upcoming “singularity” for technologies dealing with really large data sets. Things like CouchDB, Tokyo Cabinet, Cassandra and some other non-RDBM’s datastores that I’m sure I’m forgetting about are starting to filter down from the experimental [...]

Yes, my waffling continues. But this time it is NOT with respect to what editor to use, as the one true editor has been configured in such a way to make my life easier. I have a personal project that I have been waffling about building in Python (first as a Django app, [...]

I received an email this evening that you can now purchase my book through Amazon.com's Marketplace! Awesome news. Check out the link http://tinyurl.com/p5o79u and be sure to add your feedback to the page if you've bought a copy.
(Edit: hrm, link doesn't show up on front page but shows up if you click on the [...]