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Author Archives: paulschreiber
Finding Forrester (he’s not at JCCSF)
One of my favourite scenes from Finding Forrester is when Jamal corrects Professor Crawford: Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball. Jamal: “Further” Prof. Robert Crawford: What? Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don’t… Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached “farther” than basketball. “Farther” relates to distance, …
Spammer fail
Dogs don’t buy dog food
A customer is someone who buys software. A user is someone who uses software. When it comes to enterprise software, these stop being the same person. This is why enterprise software is so bad.
Data. It’s not sexy. It works.
Engineers Without Borders is running a terrific ad in Engineering Dimensions. I can’t make this any better.
Pac-Man ate my RAID
[>………………..] recovery = 2.5% (3836544/152247936) finish=35.1min speed=70370K/sec [>………………..] recovery = 3.0% (4642752/152247936) finish=37.5min speed=65481K/sec [===>……………..] recovery = 15.2% (23276800/152247936) finish=32.2min speed=66725K/sec [===>……………..] recovery = 18.4% (28154624/152247936) finish=28.9min speed=71392K/sec [====>…………….] recovery = 21.5% (32802560/152247936) finish=28.6min speed=69451K/sec [=====>……………] recovery = 28.3% (43166336/152247936) finish=33.4min speed=54268K/sec [======>…………..] recovery = 33.6% (51163008/152247936) finish=25.9min speed=64964K/sec [================>….] recovery = 84.7% (129098432/152247936) finish=7.9min …
Excel is not a database
The New Organizing Institute Education Fund, in conjunction with the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation released the 2nd Annual Survey of Civic Engagement Technology. The report is full of interesting information on how nonprofits (mis)(ab)use technology to manage their organizations. APIs Page 9 of the report discusses data integration: Data Integration Many of the data …
Inspired by Cory Booker
The closing plenary of the Personal Democracy Forum — an hour long — was a great discussion between Cory Booker, Arianna Huffington, RNC tech chair Saul Anuzis, PDF founder Andrew Rasiej, NYT Times tech writer Nick Bilton and Tim O’Reilly. Cory Booker was by far the highlight. This man is inspiring. “The biggest thing we’re …
rake task for extracting database contents
This is the inverse of db:fixtures:load. I modified the version I found to take the FIXTURES environment variable as a parameter. Saved as gist 440058. # extract_fixtures.rake # by Paul Schreiber <paulschreiber at gmail.com> # 15 June 2010 # # I got this from Peter Gulezian <http://metoca.net/> # Looks like another version is here # …
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Why I don’t like Salsa labs, reason #1
They don’t support Safari or Chrome: Here’s what goes wrong: