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Getting ready for production

The secret project I’m working on is taking shape. And because of the looming deadline (Liftconference coming up fast), I had to give some thoughts on the hardware, I’m deploying this application on… I have been a Textdrive (affiliate link) customer since ever they existed. I have seen them grow from a small hosting company with only a couple of servers to being bought by Joyent (of which there will be talked more soon). Joyent/Textdrive has spent the last couple of months moving their complete hosting infrastructure from Dell Servers running FreeBSD to Sun Servers running OpenSolaris. They have told numerous tales about how much their hosting experience has improved. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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This is one crazy month

It seems like January has barely started, and already I’m more than waist deep in work: A not yet announced secret project, that I honestly started with today. Something I have never done before, and something that I’m both excited and scared about. You’ll read more about it, in the months to come. Another secret project, that you will (if all goes well) see at Lift Conference regular work A small Lotus Notes maintenance project (my first go at Notes 7.0 - and boy does the IDE still suck) Another potential project coming my way with a tight deadline Some rails mentoring and all the other ideas that I’m floating constantly - there’s one that I’d really like to make happen - and I have to make it happen soon, because of the elections in switzerland this fall. I have retreated to our flat in the mountains - thanks to my family who have let me go (and will let me go for a couple of days almost each week for the next few months). Without you I wouldn’t be able to pull this off. And I have started martial arts again: Thanks to Dannie Jost I started Aikikdo just before x-mas, and had my second lesson this week. After a long absence from the martial arts (I studied Karate for a couple of years) it’s wonderful to be doing something with my body again. And it’s absolutely fascinating to experience the smoothness and fluidity of it - in stark contrast to the movements and techniques of Karate. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer