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I think a "code plan" is the equivalent of a "business plan". Neither have much value. A working product is execution of the code plan. A working business is the execution of the b…

I think the problem is that MS used to sell everyone Windows for $300 and Office for $300. Then everyone had to buy them again at work. I'm not sure how they can make this up licen…

I have used AWS on 2 projects now. On the first project, we used 2 small instances as web servers, 1 small instance as a database master, and another as a slave. The slave machine …

Which Amazon Web Services products are you using and what is your setup? Do you scale your EC2 instances horizontally or do you find you can handle most bottlenecks by moving to a …

I think before the advent of personal computing, a bit of extra complexity was ok. Life was pretty simple. You had a car, a stereo, a tv with a button for each channel, a stove/ove…

Really brilliant article

Good stuff! I'll be moving to Canberra in January and I was a bit worried that there was very little of this sort of thing. If you're still meeting in 2 months, count me in.