Archive for March, 2008

Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I had a chance to attend an Edward Tufte class this past week and it truly was a pleasure. He has published a number of beautiful books on presentation and the visualization of data. So, it was quite a treat to sit in on a presentation by someone that teaches ...

Another Amazon EC2 Beowulf Cluster Joins The Grid

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Have you ever been working with a dataset, started crunching some numbers and said to yourself, "damn, I should distribute this across the cluster," only to realize that your cluster is already saturated with your last job and will be for the next day or two? If you answered yes, ...

FogBugz: One Hot Ride

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

So, a few months ago I came across a video by Fog Creek demonstrating the latest version of their project management software FogBugz. Wow. It looked great and appeared to have many of the features I had been searching for across the project management software terrain. It was not until a ...