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Re: Network Isolation Options for Machines in Windows Azure Virtual Networks

boomkap — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:56:43 -0000

Good article that speaks to network isolation for Windows VM's in Azure. How about Linux VM's as part of the IaaS offerings in Azure?

Re: British Kid Spends Over $2,500 In Five Minute iPad App Spending Spree

boomkap — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:06:53 -0000

Every in app purchase should require some sort of captcha or pass code to prevent kids from doing this. In addition there should be a daily limit set by the app store towards any sort of purchase. Once that is triggered, the account holder needs to log in to increase the limit or verify the purchase.
I am not surprised this happened to this family. Most kids are on an iPad these days - learning, interacting or playing games. This is just the reality of the generation the kinds are growing up in.

Re: Yahoo work-from-home policy sparks debate

boomkap — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:00:33 -0000

Work from home is a policy driven decision. She is the leader of the Company and is making the call that employees need to show up for work in the office and not telecommute. As far as the employees go, its a personal choice whether they want to work there anymore or not. She played her hand. Now only time will tell whether her decision was right or wrong. In my opinion, you strive to build a team with A listers. A players will get the job done. There are enough tools today to collaborate virtually. With a Skype call/IM you can communicate with anyone regardless of location. Some of the great open source projects have come about with everyone being remote. So we know it's not that working from home is not productive. She just thinks its better for Yahoo now to get everyone together to invigorate the company.

Re: Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance

boomkap — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:29:30 -0000

Great article. Developers who choose Mongo should be mindful that they should expect data loss using Mongo. If critical data is being written to MongoDB, think again.

For the author. You should know by now that what sells the most is not necessarily the best. This applies to every industry (including software engineering). How many solutions have enterprises bought into only to realize that they either do not work or are fundamentally flawed. Perception is reality and it's hard to rationalize why something is they way it is.
Heck, a wide variety of people remember events that never occurred or something they saw on TV that never actually happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

We have all lived through the MS Windows days when we lost data due to the infamous blue screen of death or a virus. Did that stop those same users from ever using the system again, we all know the answer to that. They started to shift behavior over time and sometimes that's just what it takes.

Keep the investigative engineeralism going.

Re: Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance

boomkap — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:57:34 -0000

What a lame argument for MongoDB. What Emin is pointing out is the big Gotcha with using Mongo. If you ask the average developer that uses MongoDB why they chose it, they will probably say speed. But when you ask them whether they knew that data loss is pretty much guaranteed with MongoDB, they will be caught by surprise. Having said that it is important to understand the consequence of a design choice and make that consciously. Having said that, MongoDB has a wide variety of applicability and I would use it for caching data.

Re: Webapp Runner – Apache Tomcat as a Dependency

boomkap — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:06:21 -0000

This works great. Only issue I have seen using this deployment method is Tomcat does not respond to SIGTERM that is sent by Heroku and any registered ServletContextListener's contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent ctx) method is never called.

Re: Heroku and Java - from newbie to beginner, part 2 - Software Ramblings

boomkap — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:01:08 -0000

Does not work with Tomcat as well on Heroku.

Re: You Are Here

boomkap — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:22:26 -0000

short covering is what it looks like to me...

Re: You Are Here

boomkap — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:50:17 -0000

No sustained rally from my reading. This mkt is going down, unless we have a huge blowoff selloff day. Purely on a technical analysis reading, previous DOW bottom will be retested.

Re: You Are Here

boomkap — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:36:20 -0000

All intl mkts were up, hence the Gap up. US mkt is the last mkt to open because of the timezone.

Re: You Are Here

boomkap — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:13:35 -0000

Love it when the bears take a market up by covering... yummy... Poor bull's fall for the trap.

Re: Triple-Bullish Energy ERX Looks Good

boomkap — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:26:27 -0000

Thanks for asking.
Typically I tend to get active on the boards at key turning points in the market :). Everyday reading/posting is just too much noise for me and clouds my judgement.

Re: Triple-Bullish Energy ERX Looks Good

boomkap — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:58:22 -0000

SELL SELL SELL!!!

Re: Many ETFs Suggesting Support Here

boomkap — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:03:59 -0000

Well I would draw that trendline somewhat different. My second bottom would be the one connected to the Feb/Mar bottom rather than the May one. In that case, the trendline has been violated and who knows what's to follow.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/gas_wimps.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:31:16 -0000

So are we going to see some more bull liquidation towards the close today? If i was long, I would certainly lighten ahead of the long weekend.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:13:51 -0000

Agreed. However I do not like divergences on the indexes :)

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:50:12 -0000

Enjoy...

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:45:05 -0000

When you are short, never put on a party hat. You got to watch like a hawk. The only time to sip the maritini's is when you actually book profits.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:19:34 -0000

Not this quickly. We need to at least crack support by 3% for that level to be now considered resistance.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:51:01 -0000

So what are you doing - covering your shorts?

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:47:57 -0000

GOOG needs to close the Gap 525 - 475. Overall tech is still stronger than the DOW & S&P. Bulls seem to still be holding on to their positions in tech. Do not like this divergence too much.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:45:58 -0000

This will crack, in the coming days. No doubt here. Price/Volume action point to prior lows being tested.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/a_break_below_1383_on_sp_500_would_be_big_news.htm

boomkap — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:03:24 -0000

Should break support based on recent price/volume action. Nasdaq is still strong technically. So we have some divergence between DOW, S&P & the Nasdaq.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/modern_workplace_appliances_inspired_by_star_trek.htm

boomkap — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:17:14 -0000

That's more like 4 weeks. A 10% drop for a stock like GOOG, come on that's way too much time.

Re: http://slopeofhope.com/2008/05/modern_workplace_appliances_inspired_by_star_trek.htm

boomkap — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:01:43 -0000

Before my Jun puts expire.