Archive for May, 2011

Closing Automatic Blog Machine Tomorrow

Friday, May 20th, 2011

The initial launch of Automatic Blog Machine has exceeded my expectations so I’m very happy to have my first users who have been plugging away at the system and building their own personal blog networks. To the people that have signed up already: Thank You. I’m looking forward to personally helping make Automatic Blog Machine [...]

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Feature Creep – Knowing Where to Draw The Line

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Software is a very malleable thing. Technically nearly every idea we have can be implemented and added to a software product. Knowing when to say “No” and not add features is just as important as knowing when features are important and should be added. I enjoy using lean software. That is software which presents one [...]

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RIM Following In The Path Of Yahoo

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

It occurred to me yesterday when I was reading an essay by technology investor and author Paul Graham called What Happened to Yahoo that RIM seems to be making the same mistake. Yahoo was making a lot of money – so much in fact that they stopped trying to make more of it. They were [...]

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Automatic Blog Machine Launched!

Monday, May 9th, 2011

This event has been a long time in the making and now the day has finally arrived. Most readers of this blog would be interested in the technical details of the site. Automatic Blog Machine is a django application hosted on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. The project has evolved over several years various scripts that I [...]

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