I rolled up to YCombinator HQ about 2 hours before the event. I noticed a couple other stragglers that showed up early as well and we awkwardly stood around on opposite sides of the street. After about an hour of reading a book on my iPad I finally encroached on...

Apart from the SEO implication of adding WWW to your site requests, CloudFlare seems like a pretty cool tool.  A free CDN seems too good to be true.  I like new and shiny things so I was chomping at the bit when Dreamhost said they have one-click CloudFlare support.  Most...

I recently had the great fortune to visit YCombinator for their “Work at a Startup” event. I lived in the bay during the first dotcom bubble before returning to lower California. I always enjoy going back and tapping into tech energy. From the plane ride, to billboards, to bar chatter,...

One of the trickier things when working in a small team with no IT department and no SCM is how to promote code to your Dev/Staging/Production environments.  On one of our projects we use a private Github repository and have an EC2 instance running Fedora so I was looking for...