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March 2009 - Posts

OnStartups.com - Underpants Gnomes?

If you are a startup I think you'd find www.onstartups.com very worth your time. They have a post relating most startup plans to those of the South Park "Underpants Gnomes" who's business plan is: Steal Underpants ? Make Profit Always Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:23 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Happy St. Patrick's Day - Cloud-based testing tools

Just ran into BrowserMob a cloud-based load testing tool based on Firefox and Amazon EC2 . It allows you to throw hundreds or thousands of "virtual users" at your web site simultaneously. Unlike most load testing tools however, it uses actual Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:16 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Operating Systems Don't Matter - I agree

Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch today wrote a piece entitled " Operating Systems Don't Matter ". As I wrote in the comments to that post, I was a partcipant in a concrete example of his thesis: Digital Research, Inc. DRI wrote and distributed Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 10:03 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Pascal/MT+, it was 30 years ago today

It was 30 years ago today that I started, in earnest, to build Pascal/MT [wikipedia link], the first source-code-to-binary Pascal compiler. In those days one could either use UCSD Pascal (a P-code compiler/interpreter) or Pascal/Z which compiled to Z80 Read More...
Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 4:46 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments