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Get one, before it’s too late !
Posted 20 December, 2007 by Mike Pittaro in Business, Web
The difference between bits and atoms is never more apparent than when a something made of atoms is in short supply. Back in July, we had to do some digging to find a Wii for our OSCon giveaway.
Since then, the Nintendo supply shortages have persisted. It’s almost impossible to find a Wii in stock, on a store shelf now, unless you are willing to buy some form of ‘Bundle’ that pushes the normal US $250 price up to over US $500. Nintendo has frowned on the bundling practice.
But, just in time for last minute shoppers, CanCost has…… Wii’s !
In stock, ready to ship, for US $189.00, a 50% saving off retail, and well below the going price on eBay or the bundles. But, hurry, today is probably the last chance to order in time for December 24th delivery.
If you didn’t budget for any last minute shopping, don’t worry, you can recoup the money in no time with a Sundae Station.
Does a REST API on the Web even matter ?
Posted 17 December, 2007 by Mike Pittaro in REST Services
Bill notes the Amazon SimpleDB ‘REST’ API isn’t really REST. Over on REST discuss, others note the same thing. In fact, there’s already a Rail’s proxy that provides an alternative, RESTful interface.
Hopefully, the commentary will convince Amazon to revisit the the API, and bring it into alignment with the rest of [...]
Alan Greenspan-speak
Posted 12 December, 2007 by Chris in misc
Interesting OpEd piece in the WSJ today by Alan Greenspan on the mortgage crisis.
The 100 word version:
The fall of communism opens up new labor markets who’s biggest export was deflation. Developing countries saved too much driving global long term interest rates to record lows, fueling a speculative bubble. Central banks raised short term [...]
Asterisk saves us thousands…
Posted 11 December, 2007 by Chris in Open Source, misc
Yesterday I got a vivid reminder of how much companies can save when they use Open Source.
SnapLogic might be different from a lot of small companies in that we’ve already got people scattered around the globe. But for any company with remote office and employees, our experiences surely apply.
Our headquarters are in San [...]
Software Freedom Law Center finding more cockroaches…
Posted 7 December, 2007 by Chris in GPL, Open Source
Saw the news today that the SFLC has filed suit against Verizon on behalf of its client BusyBox.
Its interesting that for years the SFLC never once filed suit trying to enforce the GPL, yet in a matter of three months has filed suit (on behalf of the same client, BusyBox) against Monsoon Multimedia, High Gain [...]