Archive for December, 2007

33 Steps to Moving Abroad [Checklist]

Can You Afford to Move Abroad? (Prerequisites)
* Ensure you have at least the first 3-5 months of living expenses ready (or in a very secure pipeline if you are a freelancer).
* If you’re a freelancer, make sure the market is healthy enough at the moment to sustain your current income levels for the length of […]

5 Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln

Being a startup CEO is not unlike being a great political leader. The challenges you’ll face are different, but in both realms you’ll have the chance to rise above obstacles or crumble in the face of them.
The following lessons from Lincoln will hopefully help you along your journey.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. […]

AppJet: Rocket Fuel for Web Apps

AppJet is a new hosted application framework that’s part code editor, part persistent storage repository, part hosted application company. It roles all of these components into one, providing a complete end-to-end solution for would-be app developers.
Via the AppJet Introduction page:

An AppJet app is a server-side JavaScript program that runs when a request is made […]

Current State of The Hydra Project

Here is the first peek of what we’re working on (click for a full-size screenshot):
mockup of the default theme for hydraproject
I’d like to give a special shoutout to a designer buddy for his work on this!
Google Group Discussion List
If you want to stay up to date with the latest Hydra Project news or just talk […]

Hydra Project on TorrentFreak

The Hydra Project received some major coverage today from TorrentFreak and via its page on Digg.
The Hydra Project is a distributed, private BitTorrent tracker framework with goals of user privacy, anonymity, survivability & distributed ratio maintainability.
The initial development of it was motivated, in part, by a high-profile takedown of a very well-known and beloved private […]