One of the blog’s I’ve been following (besides Bob’s here at Appistry) is Marc Andreessen’s from my old nemesis Netscape. I really have enjoyed some of the insights Marc has shared around startup’s, VC’s and most recently, Career Planning.
In his career planning post, he shares a couple of rules that really resonated with me and I think they are worth repeating. Marc’s career rules –
Some of my peers here at Appistry have been rubbing my nose with the filtering power of grep for filtering command line utilities on 'other' operating systems for some time now. So I'm VERY excited to have figured outhow touse Microsoft's PowerShell to filter error message from our command line logging tool. - The riddle of filters.
The PowerShell syntax that really threw me involved using SQL like search syntax to build a filter. I really thought that using 'like' or 'contain' attributes on a string compare would work great, but it didn't work that way… .
I just recently attended the Google Conference on Scalability in
Well, I'm still digging out from last weeks TechEd 2007 this week - I've followed up on all of the customers, vendors and press contacts and leads. I've gone through all of the twenty pounds of 'junk' - I mean, literature that we received in the 'better then average' backpack they gave out this year. And I've starting loading and reviewing the software that was handed out or announced this week…
Ah, the rush of doing a trade show!
While my newbie counterpart Jasen had his trade show baptism in
