Kalv, since you and Boris refuse to charge me for RSS Hero :-), I would like to buy you lunch anywhere in Gastown, Yaletown or downtown Vancouver before Christmas or in Mid January 2012. Text me at 6oh47297924 or email me roland AT rolandtanglao.com
For the two of you besides Boris and Richard who subscribed to my Google Reader Shared items, I have switched to RSS Hero (made by Kalv with vision by Boris, thanks guys! Where I do pay? I don't want ads, I want to pay now). WARNING: RSS Hero is alpha software for thrill seekers only :-) but the ride has been smooth so far and is going to be great!
More shaky backlight video from the fantastic combo of the E75, Qik and 3.5G. this time mobile and web related pontifications from Boris Mann of Bootup Labs (and fellow co-founder of Bryght). Check out the video after the jump or read my stream of consciousness pseudo-transcript :-) !
Bryght - the first hosted Drupal, first Drupal as a service, 5 years ago
Bryght partnership with Workhabit - 50 servers, Cisco routers, pre cloud, we had DOS
attacks and Workhabit's awesome Gary, Aaron and Jonathan fixed the routers
DOS cannot be fixed completely but it can be minimized through various means including taking out the DOS IP addresses at the router level, taking your site down is not a solution, shows
that real hosting companies need to own their infrastructure or have DNS separated
Bryght didn't use Drush, we used python for lots of historical reasons
To upgrade 1000 Drupal sites e.g. from Drupal 5.1 to Drupal 5.2 sites I ran hmupdate.py (or was it hmupgrade.py? it's fuzzy now!) in a for loop over the 1000
Bryght Drupal web sites
Aegir has commoditized Bryght (former Bryght guy, Adrian Rossouw,
developed Aegir; Adrian rocks)
The entire Bryght Drupal as a service is available in a box i.e. commoditized
The awesome Emma Jane Hogbin has advocated a web infrastructure e.g. a Drupal cloud for every town
A Drupal cloud for every town is a way to attract businesses because
you can spin up a free (government pays for it, far better than bogus tax breaks) scalable, modern, SEO optimised website for a business or non profit
in 5 minutes
Dreamweaver doesn't cut it - Technologists have failed because there
is still no Dreamweaver for 21st century but wordpress.com is close and Acquia Gardens when it's 1.0 will be even closer
Does Qik have a business model? Yes bundling with handset
Schmap is annoying and irrelevant
Iphone 4.0 is highly relevant :-)
Apple Gaming network is huge - Could Tiny Speck use it for Glitch? Yes! How
porous will Apple make it? i.e. will it play nice with other social networking sites? probably not in the near term but maybe in the long term
iAds - based on HTML5! Big ! Will make HTML5 "the voice of the new web
dev generation"
Multi-tasking - it doesn't matter, it comes down to UX; area where
Nokia is lost (except possibly Maemo! go Maemo go! p.s. I hate the
name Meego much prefer Maemo!)
User Experience of multi-tasking is what's important and having to
install a 3rd party task manager to make Symbian multi-tasking work is a really,
really bad user experience
Yet another shout-out to Jan Ole Suhr for the awesome Gravity Twitter App - best mobile Twitter app on ony platform, only available on Symbian for the moment
Took Boris "83 clicks" to pay for Gravity, sad but true :-) ! Nokia,
please fix!
Maemo potential is so much greater than Apple iPhone and Symbian
because it's Linux and because it's truly open from the get go rather
than openness being bolted on like Symbian :-) !
May 15, 2009 was my last day of work for Raincity Studios and with it of course my involvement with Bryght ended as well. It's been a great ride! Thanks to all the Bryght Gals, Guys, customers, investors, friends and of course the folks at Raincity Studios. I am certain that the "Bryght Children" will in their own way (in a small "Fairchild children" way, haha!) continue to make their mark (e.g. Rilli, Bootup Labs, and I predict many many more). My next post will be about my new job but for now a few random thoughts and reflections (apologies to the great people I have omitted!):
I'll never forget moving day into the first Bryght offices at 525 Seymour with the folks at EQO (also gone).
Bryght Light developed by Adrian and the rest of the Bryght team was and is a Drupal milestone. I can't to see what the fine folks at Lullabot and Acquia and WorkHabit and the other fine folks doing Drupal hosting come up with. Not to mention what happens with Development Seed, Adrian and the other folks developing Aegir. Aegir definitely ups the proverbial Drupal hosting 'ante'.
Speaking of WorkHabit, I will always be impressed by their VPS hosting partnership with Bryght. As far as I know Bryght VPS was the only Drupal-centric VPS hosting from a Canadian company, one of the few in the world and probably the first. Nobody did it better. Thanks to Richard, Gary of WorkHabit, incredible system engineers and sysadmins: Narayan Newton and Ben Holt. Learned some great lessons:i.e. always iterate, automate and listen to the market!
Herewith some random Bryght photos to end it off in a visual style! Ciao Tschüß!
Chuff'ed to be on the #5 on the Now Public Vancouver list with Rebecca, Tris and whole bunch of fine folks including the blog father Darren, and Kris and Boris. Let's rock it as Tris said! More fun, more media, more insight, more, more, more! See you at BarCamp Vancouver tomorrow!
