Category Archives: Design

Ensemble, Go, and MongoDB at Canonical

About 1 year after development started in Ensemble, today the stars finally aligned just the right way (review queue mostly empty, no other pressing needs, etc) for me to start writing the specification about the repository system we’ve been jointly … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture, C/C++, Cloud, Design, Go, PostgreSQL, Project, Python | 7 Comments

Cut the rope, a tablet is NOT a laptop

Back in 2009 I quickly talked about the obvious revolution in computing that was rolling in the form of mobile phone as computer, and mentioned as well the fact that touch-based interfaces were going to dominate the marketplace because of … Continue reading

Posted in Article, Design, Mobile, Puzzle | 3 Comments