Vim is a huge subject. I wrote a short intro book on that subject, but some of you though it was too short and asked me to write more. Which I did. And here’s one section that will make you…
Back in 2003-2004 I was approached by a specialist UK IT publication to write an article on the challenges to SaaS and this thing we call ‘cloud computing.’ I wrote, among other things, about the need for better backup procedures,…
There is a school of thought among VCs, angels, and founders that startups should try to make money as early as possible, not necessarily because they should learn to bootstrap (then it is a requirement), but in order to learn…
Amazon gets well-deserved praise for their customer support. Most of the time. Like any giant, it sometimes gets things wrong, but it tries really hard to create the right buying experience. I have been buying books and other stuff from…
Even though Google brags about hundreds of millions of active Android devices, it is not them who can rule the imagination and the purses of the masses embracing mobile devices. For a while, the exclusive license to tell people what…
Last week I wrote about the discrepancies I spotted between the number of the daily user installs and the differences between the total number of the user installs for two consecutive days. Those two values ought to match, but they…
No Unix-class system administrator or user will get far without learning the basics of Vim, the modern replacement for vi. Contrary to some misinformed opinions spread among users who are new to Unix-class systems, Vim is not difficult to learn….
Terms like cloud computing or cloud hosting seem to have as many definitions as there are marketers trying to convince other people to buy their clients’ and employers’ services. Apple has iCloud, Google has something new every quarter or so, Microsoft…
Last week I did a promotion for my Vim book on the Amazon Kindle publishing platform. It went very well (more on that tomorrow) and it reminded me how well Amazon is prepared to handle both sales and sales reporting….
