The role of a CTO is a topic that inspires many to ask so many questions.  What is the difference between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?  What to look for in a startup CTO?  There are literally hundreds of posts on[…]

In the past couple of weeks, several folks have asked me to share my bash profile.  I’m not sure why, maybe better bash profiles are high on everyone’s new year’s resolutions. 🙂 This post should also give my daughter a good chuckle and[…]

Is it possible to build a personal media network that allows you to collect, organize and stream video, pictures and music to all your devices – TV, phone, computer, game console? There seems to be a couple of key components: A media server[…]

At the forest floor, young seedling all look the same and struggle to get sun light. I’m starting to see more Venture Capitalist move down the time line and wait for opportunities with more mature entrepreneurs.

I have many things going on – keeping track of important information, managing life events, staying organized, coordinating communications and leveraging my trusted social network can be a very big challenges. Stress builds, my brain hurts and the many online services only[…]

My real excitement isn’t so much about the many cool Droid features or endless open application market place.

Google’s Android Tsunami is picking up momentum and support is swelling. Apple has prepared to fight and they’re going after Google now! Apple has organized a very careful first shot in this battle.

I simply must enter through the gates of hell and get some testing done – no way around it. Load testing through reduction – no data movement, data cleansing, backups or load generation needed. Know thy products performance and scalability.

Load testing is really hard to do, efficiently. It is expensive, has limited value and takes time to do – even Dilbert dodges load testing. So what are the challenges and are there practical ideas for quickly assessing your Production environment’s