* A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
 * More Python and C# idioms: Finding the difference between two lists
 * To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start
 * Restructuring expert attention to revive the lost 
   art of personal customer service
 * Allman Brothers, Oct 14: Huntington or Nashville? 
   A parable about syndication and provenance.
 * Talking with Daniel Debow about using Rypple 
   to open the Johari Window
 * More visualization of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase

There are many opinions in the air about the impact that virtualization has on performance, so I thought a short blog would be good to explain (as best I can) virtual machine performance characteristics with pointers to relevant benchmarks and technical papers.

My background is that I was an early Product Manager working on VMware ESX Server (from version 1.5) and among other things ran product management for VMware for a few years. As a product management guy, I kept track of the output of the engineering performance group, and as a result had a reasonable high level (although never code level) understanding of the whys and wherefores of virtualization performance. Although I’m not as fresh on virtualization as I once was, I’ll try to do my best here. I also want to thank Steve Herrod at VMware, and Simon Crosby at Citrix for providing a technical sanity check on the blog contents, although I retain responsibility for any mistakes and oversights.

1. How much money do you have in the bank?
2. What is your net outflow per month?
3. What is the post-money valuation of your last round? 
4. What can you do that your competitors cannot?
5. What can your competitors do that you cannot?
6. Who are your investors?
7. Who is on your board of directors?
8. Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product?
9. Assume that you have $0 for marketing, how would you market the product?
10. What keeps you awake at night?

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   All PHP Demos (217)
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Links:

    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks
    * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176324/why-does-everyone-like-jquery-mor...
    * http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/mootools-vs-jquery-vs-prototype-vs-yui-v...

Clarification added 9 days ago:

Found a very nice presentation, dated Oct 2008 , by John Resig (Author of JQuery). Here is the URL.
http://www.slideshare.net/jeresig/javascript-library-overview-presentation

jQuery Google Charts 1.0

Copyright (c) 2008 Massimiliano Balestrieri
Examples and docs at: http://maxb.net/blog/
Licensed GPL licenses:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Basic usage:

var api = new jGCharts.Api(); 
jQuery('') 
.attr('src', api.make({data : [[153, 60, 52], [113, 70, 60], [120, 80, 40]]})) 
.appendTo("#bar1");

Html:



Basic scripts (use packed version in production):

 

As newsgathering continues to evolve, new ways of keeping track of current events are developing. Dave Winer joins Phil and Scott to discuss how Twitter and other social networking tools are changing the way that people read and react to the news. He talks about how he followed prior major news stories and why he now has started using social networking tools as a better way.

He then discusses his work with Twitter stats and reviews what can be learned from how Twitter works. He also reviews the possible future of these tools and assesses some of the ways that information is compiled and distributed and what might be different as time goes on.

The argument continues to this day. People who say Twitter is a conversational medium would agree with those who say Barger was the founder. I see Twitter as a publishing environment, a place to push links, a notification system. Oddly, I think Barger with his linkblog approach (which was the same as the early Scripting News or the News Page of the 24 Hours project) would agree.

Hi Jon-

In your talk with Philip Rosedale I was surprised that you never referred to your own Second Life experience ( http://jonudell.net/udell/2006-10-16-in-search-of-non-gratuitous-3d.html ) if only to reconcile the big benefits he attributed to Second Life meetings to your own experience.

Have you had sebsequent, more fruitful SL experiences?

-Michael

By Rudolf Ammann
Presented at Hypertext 2009
30 June 2009, Torino, Italy

Working from the online archival record, this paper aims to reconstruct the emergence at Jorn Barger’s initiative of the weblog community from a predecessor known as the NewsPage Network.

• Continuous Deployment (Timothy Fitz Blog Posting)
• Continuous Deployment at IMVU (Timothy Fitz Blog Posting)
• Timothy Fitz Homepage
• Lessons Learned (Eric Ries Blog)
• Steve Blank's Blog
• IMVU
• Lean Startup (Eric Ries Article)
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  I'm Michael Plasmeier otherwise known as ThePlaz. I am a senior at Haverford High School as well as a web developer and project manager with a focus on user experience and design. I am also a TV Show producer and host and an open source app maintainer. Next year, I will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). See Why MIT for more.

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