Sol Young

So I got to thinking the other day about all the peeps on Twitter who have slick, short, names. Most I follow on Twitter follow this convention (ev, al3x, jack, biz, dick, iofy, to name a few). It’s not just a status symbol on the service, but also a matter of resource utilization.
I switched from solyoung to sol. Easier to remember and less to [...]

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Cart sent me a link to Matt Tucker’s latest blog entry over at Jive Software, ”XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services.” Matt is right. Cloud architectures and large systems are moving away from the current HTTP / web services integration.
Monstrous servers and clusters banging on each other, effectively pulling web pages in order to deliver another web [...]

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Saw this and had to share the love. Enjoy! (click the link)
 

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Submitted an application to get back in and finish the Comp-Sci degree.  It’s a required step towards the ultimate goal of an MBA at Wharton or Stanford.

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The recent debates about Twitter’s performance has me thinking about iofy this weekend…
Way back when I started at iofy we had the challenge of creating PC and PocketPC applications that played secure audiobook content, displayed table of contents meta data and bookmarked. The applications needed to be under 200k, run on a 200MHz processor and [...]

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Last night Gala and I hit the slopes for the first time this season. There’s a tiny hill about 40 minutes from here. It’s a little learning hill with plenty of fun to be had. Being raised on Alpine in the Sierras in California spoiled me, but I love anything frozen. [...]

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A quick note: All photographs on solyoung.com, unless advertising for another site or service, were taken by myself or someone I know while I was with them. What you see here and in the Flickr feed(s) are where I/we’ve been.

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