Rethinking the Cloud Nov 28, 2011

For months I've been thinking that a "cloud-server" is just an overpriced version of a VPS.

Don't get me wrong, I get the platform - as a software engineer. As a business owner - I even get all the benefits - elasticity, reliability, scalability, flexibility and all the other "bilities". On the other hand...

See, a regular VPS also runs "virtually" - just like the cloud. It's isolated from the host-machine failures - just like the cloud. The latest VPS-software (say, vSphere) can even do load-balancing, shadowing and real-time switching between physical hosts in case of a hardware failure - just like the cloud.

So, what's the difference then?

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Trying Rails & Mac, confessions of a .NET developer Nov 12, 2011

I run Windows on my MacBook.

Windows - because I'm a .NET developer and our startup is mainly Microsoft-based. And, to be honest, I like Windows 7. Finally, a decent OS from Microsoft.

And MacBook - because it's simply the best hardware you can get for it. The unibody design is awesome, the keyboard & touchpad are great, the 17" screen is fabulous... I love my Mac. I'm practically an Apple fanboy.

The only thing I don't like about my Mac - is Mac OS X.

It just didn't suit me from the very beginning. That blurry font-rendering, that mouse acceleration you can't disable... Also, I'm a gaming junkie and, let's say, Mac is not the most popular gaming platform.

But let's try a Mac for a change

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