Archive for the 'technology' Category

Going back to 1999

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

So around 1999 I started working with Oracle and back in those days I was just doing Coldfusion development and using Oracle as a backend. I did this using the typical stack of software, Windows NT, IIS, oracle client, and Coldfusion. Well I soon moved on to the Java world and did a bunch of […]

Custom Linux Builder (and Money),

Friday, June 17th, 2005

The Custom Linux Market is starting to heating up. Back in October of 2003 when Cobind had its first prototype of its DiY tools I knew this was going to be big. So maybe its not the easiest thing to sell. Your target market is a bunch of Linux hackers that […]

Meta Filesystem (MetaFS)

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

This is a prototype I wrote of a filesystem that uses metadata stored in files to create dynamic directories, plus gives the user the ability to add any arbitrary attributes to files in the system.
It looks like this:

bmills:> ls location/
Pennsylvania/ Mexico/ California/ Pittsburgh/ Gibsonia/
bmills:> ls location/Pennsylvania
Topic/ […]

del.icio.us

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

I’m probably a little late in getting to this one since I just saw a tiny article about it in Newsweek but nevertheless it deserves a post. “delicious” (del.icio.us), is not only a creative URL but is a really cool “community bookmark” application. The basic idea is I can add my bookmarks to […]

Joining Timesys

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

In the recent weeks I’ve accepted an offer to go work at Timesys. They are local Pittsburgh company building custom linux distributions and tools for the embedded computer market. I know very little about the embedded space making this a very interesting job opportunity. But they are using Python alot