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... and not a moment too soon. Meh, only been waiting for about 2 years.

Is Google finally showing some signs of becoming too big for itself?

Seems like my love affair with the wine industry is like the one between Jim and Pam in the Office. No matter how many times I reconsider, I can't help going back to it. (Must be the 14% alcohol) Anyway, after (more than) a few months of work, we're finally launching The Wine Shelf (www.thewineshelf.com). The Wine Shelf is the brainchild of Rod Haden - wine connoiseur, collector and marketing ...

The Joel Spolsky keynote was one of the most engaging, interesting and downright hilarious presentations I've heard this year. He really knows how to talk to the crowd. A few suggestions from Joel on creating great software: Make people happy Think about emotions Obsess over aesthetics Joel is right - developers don't necessarily want to think about beautifying their applications. Developers largely work on the middle-tier and supporting backends, and like everyone, ...

Second day here at the ZendCon 07, and no session better than Eli White's PHP Features You Didn't Know Existed to start off the day. PHP developers who've been coding for a number of years (some 10 years or more) were scoffing at the idea that Eli would present anything new or 'undiscovered'. But there wasn't a cough in the packed room as Eli presented rarely-used hidden gems ...

The first day of Zend Con was pretty interesting. I wasn't able to attend all the sessions, but the notable ones were Terry Chay's The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architecture (hilarious guy), Ben Ramsey's Give Your Site A Boost With memcache, and Eli White's High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques (standing room only). These types of sessions make conferences interesting and a learning ...

If you're seeing this, you're hitting the blog on the new Media Temple server. I finally decided to move over from Dreamhost after being fed up of slow load times, frequent outages, general quirkiness, etc. However, Dreamhost isn't as bad as everyone makes it sound. Here's why Dreamhost kicks ass: Great support! I mean REALLY GREAT support! I feel bad for their support team because of how many downtime ...

Y Combinator has been gaining some considerable airtime at your friendly techie blogs with their slew of new startups. Here's a couple that are interesting to note: Jamglue - "Remixing for the masses" is their slogan, which is great except that the 'masses' produce shitty whizh-swosh-pop-gurgle infused beats that they uploaded from their cellphones. Though the idea is very neat (read mad props), one must think about whether remixing ...