Nice location, but don’t try using the free internet access.
As soon as you launch any application requiring sustained bandwidth (rss news reader, online game, etc.), it cuts off your access of a period of time.
At least this is how it has been functioning for the 2 days I have been here.
Totally lame.
While on the road, I attended a single session during the Ruby SIG at SD Forum.
It was Jason Hoffman’s excellent presentation on Scaling with Rails.
A couple key philosophies reinforced during the session:
Key technologies this event is leading me to investigate include:
I have long believed that monster multi-proc boxes, dedicated to a single task, are usually overkill. The focus should be on memory and IO. Jason confirmed this with real world examples.
Who knew power would be one of the bigger issues?
Anyway, check out his presentation and upcoming seminars here.
Apple Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Boot Camp will be a feature in “Leopard,” Apple’s next major release of Mac OS X, that will be previewed at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in August.
