The Cult of Gary

I’m going to be at Linuxfest Northwest today. I’m currently sitting in a Starbucks as I’m about two hours early. I expected much longer lineups at the border. Sitting at Starbucks is definitely preferable to sitting at the border or being late
I’ve been having ongoing issues with my Blackberry Curve when roaming in the US. [...]

Part of the application I’m working on right now can take advantage of grid (as in chunking up jobs and distributing them to work nodes). I’ve spent my day getting EC2 and Sun Grid Engine to work together. It was a long and hard battle, but I prevailed.
The crux of the problem is DNS. Out [...]

That’s my patio this morning. It’s April 19th. That’s just not right. We’ve already had one patio party this year (and it was warm enough to be outside at 9:00PM). I don’t know what the current temperature is, but it feels like the snow isn’t going to melt this morning.

It looks like Amazon is responding to AppEngine with fire and motion. There were two more announcements this morning that I think are big:

Premium Support for the Web Services. I’m not currently in the market for support (we’re not live at this point and I haven’t run into any problems the forums or google couldn’t solve), but [...]

I’m starting to work on some perl code for my current gig. In the past, I’ve set up my own CPAN mirror and added my code to make installing perl modules a snap.
This time around, I’ve standardized on using puppet for automation. I was really hoping to use RPM’s for software installations, since this is integrated very nicely into [...]

I’ve been thinking about what AppEngine is. I’ve read some of the docs and watched some of the youtube videos. I agree with Don MacAskill’s impressions. Google has taken a very laser-focused approach.
Valleywag thinks that if Youtube was built on AppEngine, it would have been easier to integrate into the Google family. The problem is that you can’t build [...]