There are a lot of reasons to choose a specific technology. You can decide based on what skills you or the engineers around you have. You can decide on a new technology because it’s the right tool. But there are times when all other things are equal and the flip of a coin would suffice. And in my mind, that’s when it comes to choosing the right technology based on a roadmap.
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Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
Choosing a Product By Roadmap
18 Nov 2011 — ericGoogle Securing The Web One Discrete Monopolizing Push At A Time
4 Nov 2011 — ericContrary to speculation by some, Google’s decision for encrypting search data is motivated by the goal to make the web as a whole more secure and it’s not driven by economic interests. I think Google is silently forcing the internet to do what they should be doing on their own.
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Exploring AppleScript with Alfred Shortcuts
1 Sep 2011 — ericIf you have read my blog before, you’ll know that I am a big fan of Alfred (here). I love the shortcuts and the ability to make things quicker. One of the things I find myself doing quite frequently is looking for domains and their traffic counts on Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast. Read the rest of this entry »
Fixing CentOS Root Certificate Authority Issues
1 Jun 2011 — ericWhile trying to clone a repository from Github the other day on one of my EC2 servers and I ran into an SSL verification issue. As it turns out, Github renewed their SSL certificate (as people who are responsible about their web presence do when their certificate is about to expire). As a result, I couldn’t git clone over https. This presents a problem since all my deploys work using git clone over https.
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