Palm Cancels the Folio

Posted by Michael Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:27:00 GMT

This was predicable and a little funny:

“To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering out next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one”

Read the blog post here.

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Looking for a CSS/HTML designer

Posted by Michael Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:22:00 GMT

We’re looking for a stellar HTML/CSS designer to help out with a new service we’re building.

Please email mike@imapenguin.com for more info.

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You're working too hard when

Posted by Michael Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:31:00 GMT

You know you’re working too hard when you don’t have time for lunch with friends, neighbors, countrymen…

Slow down, eat something. Laugh.

You only get 75 years or so here so make it count.

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BlueRoads Only Supported on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Posted by Michael Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:47:00 GMT

A number of hardware and software vendors use BlueRoads for their partner management functions.

I got a signup from a vendor today (who I’ll not name), and promptly got a “BlueRoads is Only Supported on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0” on login.

First of all, no Firefox support is just stupid. Second, we only have one Windows box, it’s Vista, and it has IE 7. You know, IE 7, the newest version of Internet Explorer.

Get with the program BlueRoads!

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Marketing Department Got You Down?

Posted by Michael Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:39:00 GMT

Is your marketing department letting you down, or do you make average products for average people?

Make a change.

Make something that people WANT to talk about.

It doesn’t matter what it is.

If it’s really good, you wont have to market it.

When was the last time you saw a Google ad on prime time TV?

Think they need it? They don’t.

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Imapenguin is looking for freelance Rails developers and designers

Posted by Michael Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:14:00 GMT

We’ve got some new projects in the works and are looking for Rails developers and website designers. You must be willing to work on your own and be very flexible on compensation packages. Yes, there will be equity involved :-)

Send resumes and any work examples to mike@imapenguin.com

Clever, inventive cover letters (or emails) will be considered first. If you just email us your resume, it’s going to the bottom of the pile. We want to see creative potential.

Good written English skills are required.

Good luck!

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What does answering that cell phone call say about you?

Posted by Michael Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:57:00 GMT

You’re having lunch with someone and their cell phone rings.

If they pick it up, they’re saying that a cell phone call is more important than the face to face with you.

Now, there are exceptions to this rule, but they’re obvious. Servers crashing might be a good excuse.

Do everyone a favor and make the in person meetings your priority.

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Upgrading Imaweblog

Posted by Michael Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:10:00 GMT

I just upgraded typo on Imaweblog. Let me know if you get any errors :-)

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Ruby makes me smile

Posted by Michael Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:21:25 GMT

It’s not often that computer work makes me smile. I needed to download 6 files today. This is what made me smile:

[1,2,3,4,5,6].each do |number|
    system("wget http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/\
        pub/centos/5.0/isos/i386/\
        CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-#{number}of6.iso")
end

Ahh. Ruby, where the simple things are simple.

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Imapenguin Announces Custom Appliance Interfaces

Posted by Michael Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:53 GMT

You spent endless nights building your appliance, now you need a way to manage it.

Now you can get web based appliance control with features like:

  • RESTFul API’s baked right in
  • Control over any appliance function
  • Authentication integration
  • Packaged in tgz, rpm, or deb formats
  • Installation and integration functions
  • Automatic upgrades

And yes, they are in Ruby on Rails.

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