Uploaded pictures of my place

I've decided its finally time for everyone to see where I spend all my time. Below are some pics of my apartment, which I'm sharing with two other guys. The three of us are working on a summer startup (blog here). Most of the time we're coding in the office, although I took these pics @ 3AM so Shay was already asleep ;) That crazy kid gets up at 6 every morning to work out. Wow, that's like 45 mins from now.


So here are the pics:

Main living area


The office


Another shot of the office, with our projector up

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BluWiki's back online!!!!

BluWiki.org, my most popular site, is now online. I can't tell you how much of a relief this is. I couldn't help but feel like I've been disappointing all of BluWiki's users with all of this downtime.

This is what I've been staring at the last couple weeks:



BluWiki's daily visitor traffic. Notice the drop when BluWiki's server failed. :(

I can only hope I didn't loose everyone's trust and that they return to the site, now that its back online!

Special thanks to this guy, who helped me recover the database.

Arrived at BarCampBoston

Got into Boston today, and the weather really sucks. It was 80 degrees in DC, here its 50 & rainy.

The BarCamp conference is a lot more serious than I had expected. The thing is huge, and occupies about ~15 rooms on 3 floors. I was surprised by the variety of participant's ages & backgrounds. I get the impression that the people here really know what they're talking about - many seem to be experts in their fields.

It's was also much more conferency than I expected, which was a bummer. I was imagining a bunch of geeks sitting around on the floor hacking away on code - kind of like Supper Happy Dev House (shdh.org).

Oh well, there were some great talks. I especially liked the Cool Tools talk, where everyone just talked about their favorite online app. Another great talk was "drop your pants" where participants would describe their startup project and get feedback from the rest of the group. I definitely recommend both for future barcamps.