I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
My hosting provider, DreamHost,
is very reasonably priced, has lots of features, and
friendly/knowledgeable tech support. They have also just experienced a
massive denial-of-service attack that took down their entire network
infrastructure for pretty much all of Monday. This was annoying.
For this
guy it was really annoying.
Update: more reactions to the DH outage.
So, George Bush has started using “Right Now” in his campaign materials.
No, wait, wasn’t there something about ‘oil
companies and old men’ in that video?
Most MOOs run off in a corner of a unix system, as a single process.
They re-invent their own programming languages, which are often not
very expressive or powerful, their own object oriented database
systems, their own multiuser support, and essentially everything
you’d find on a unix system. Mooix
turns this on its head, and rather than trying to reinvent unix
inside a MOO, it turns the unix system into the MOO. It uses
every unix strength possible to the advantage of the MOO; its
multiuser nature, preemptive multitasking, disk caching, device
abstraction, numerous
programming languages, editors, libraries, etc. With Mooix, unix is the MOO.
Action
Comics #1 (which you will no doubt recall is the debut of Superman)
can now be read online, in its entirety. Not exactly “mint” condition,
but the timeless hero’s story transcends creases and dog-ears. (Part of
a three-year-old web
project on the Man Of Steel at UVa.)
And hey, there’s a coloring contest! Oh, wait: “All entries
must be in by midnight, Monday, June 6, 1938.” Damn.
“In my version of Friendster, you’d have to pick me up from the
airport—or at least lend me money—before I’d let you in.”
Ze Frank takes on social
networking software. (QuickTime, a couple minutes long)