Standout Jobs Launching at DEMO 08 – Live Broadcast Today!
I’m here in Sunny California, at the beautiful Marriott Desert Springs Resort where the DEMO conference is being held this year. Yup, Standout Jobs was selected to present at DEMO! It’s been a long...
View ArticleEscaping the Tyrrany of Voicemail with PhoneTag
Today’s TechCrunch article, Think Before You Voicemail, struck a nerve with me. I’ve very often felt the same way for the exact same reasons Michael outlined: It takes much longer to listen to a...
View ArticleDeclaring Email Bankruptcy
My friends, please let it be known that today, I am declaring Email Bankruptcy. I first heard about this concept when Lawrence Lessig declared email bankruptcy in 2004. Fast forward to today, and I...
View ArticleSpeaking in Waterloo on October 4th
I’ll be speaking in Waterloo on Saturday October 4th, at the IMPACT Expo(se) Event as part of Entrepreneur Week, organized by the fine folks at Communitech. I’ll be speaking at about 12:30pm. I don’t...
View ArticleImpact Expo(se)
I had a really great time speaking at the Impact Expo(se) event last Saturday. Thanks to Iain and Lisa from Communitech for inviting me, and thanks to the entire Communitech and Impact teams for...
View ArticleStandout Jobs has been Acquired!
It’s been a long journey since Ben, Austin, and I started Standout Jobs — unbelievably it’s already been three and a half years. But today, we’re happy to announce that Standout Jobs has been acquired....
View ArticleStandout Jobs Acquisition Followup
I’m coming out of blogging hiatus to provide an update on the Standout Jobs acquisition, which I wrote about a few months ago. At that time we could not yet name the acquirer. Today, the veil has been...
View ArticleResurrection
Well hello out there. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and a lot has changed since I last posted nearly two and a half years ago. For one, I no longer live in Montreal, and I am now a freelance...
View ArticleHeroku’s log-runtime-metrics Can Crash Your Rails App
Update 2: I was wrong about log-runtime-metrics! Turns out the culprit was a concurrency bug inside a Gem. Read how I fixed it here. Update 1: Hacker News discussion here. TLDR: As of April 25, 2013,...
View ArticleBeware of the Zombie (Process) Apocalypse
Or: How to Debug 503′s, H12′s, and H13′s on Heroku TLDR: I was wrong about log-runtime-entries! Turns out my unexplained dyno crashes were caused by a Gem that was misbehaving in its process forking...
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