In High School, I worked at Boston based “Brigham’s Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor” on Mill St in Arlington. My Grandmother worked at Brigham’s when it was Buttricks. The plant where the Ice Cream is made is connected to the restaurant I worked at by underground tunnels. It was the freshest Ice Cream anywhere since it practically just came off the “belt”.
They had an interesting flash page for the site and it was very interactive. However, last week, Hood legally bought Brigham’s. Friends who still work there told me that all of the “recipes” and “brands” will stay the same. I doubt that, they fired the ice cream makers. Also, All of the other workers were fired including the webmaster…see below:
If you are redoing the website because of the buyout, at least keep the so-called branding for the homepage. Step 1 to Hood ruining that which the Boston area loves.
I know this isn’t about America and it’s independence from England, but there was a lot of things going on today.
Posted at: 7:38 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
I know that I am just about two years late on the twitter phenomenon, but I am starting on it. Now that I have found “TwitterFox” for Firefox and “Twitterberry” for my Blackberry, it makes it very easy to send my updates.
I don’t really remember to update all the time, but I will get there. I have only 8 updates total, but I was the same way with this blog. I would update every few weeks, then every few days. I have now been blogging at least once a day since December 01, 2006.
I hopefully will continue to update on a regular basis now that I have it on my Blackberry and Firefox.
Posted at: 11:48 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
The other day at work there one of the tables crashed on us in our development site and we were unable to access any of the data. I was going to just replace the data from our live site, but my co-worker Joe suggested that we figure out a solution in case it happens on live.
After looking up the documentation we realized that if you shut down the mysql server and go into the directory that the data is located, you can type in the following command, it will fix the table without touching the data.
Posted at: 10:58 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Except for the fact that the Mozilla website was down most of the day, Firefox 3 was released today and it is looking real nice. Most of my extensions were compatible and the rest will be updated hopefully soon.
The Boston Celtics are currently closing in on their 17th championship. I decided to spend the time with my parents and mainly my father instead of going into Boston which is what my original plan was.
* Update: The total for today is just shy of 4 million downloads.
Posted at: 11:26 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
For me, the right web hosting solution was Dreamhost, but you may want something different.
The following is a sponsored post. “Web Hosting Pal” is a website that helps you to determine which hosting company/plan is right for you. It gives you a list of web hosting companies that have been rating in the top 10 based on price and services. Once you click on a hosting company, “Web Hosting Pal” gives you more information about them. Tells you what services they offer with the advantages of each.
You want to look for a web hosting company that gives you the best options, not just the most options. Unlimited use of the company’s music library is useless unless you are building a site for an elementary school library and music is fun to have on the kids page. For someone like me, who builds web applications, paying for that wouldn’t be worth it. However, if they offered me unlimited domain hosting to my data limit is really helpful to me, so Dreamhost works. Also for me, One click install of Wordpress really helps on the different blogs I host for everyone else (not this one). I know, Dreamhost has had a few problems lately, but I am not running a high profile business off of them.
The only problem with “Web Hosting Pal”, is they haven’t updated their top 10 since October of 2005, so I’m not sure how accurate their prices are. Check out “Web Hosting Pal” and also look at Dreamhost because I really enjoy them.
Posted at: 11:36 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
While at work the other day, our SVN server decided that it wanted to shut down randomly. Well, nothing is completely random, but I don’t know why it shut down. However, I have not found an easy way to restart it. The only way that I have figured out to accomplish this is to restart our entire server and restart it. Luckily our SVN is on our development server and it won’t cause any problems, but it is time consuming wait for it to load back up. I was hoping that I could set it up as a service so I could do something like: /sbin/service subversion restart or /sbin/service svn restart.
If anyone has any incite on this matter, it would be awesome.
Posted at: 11:33 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Those who like Amanda Congdon, granted I was introduced near the end of “Rocket Boom”, will be excited to know that she is back with vlogging (Video Blogging). She is working on “Sometimes Daily” which is randomness again, but hopefully it will catch on.
The vlog will begin on Monday, May 5 (Cinco De Mayo)….Enjoy!
Posted at: 11:50 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Have you ever wondered how many servers Facebook has? How do they deal with the 26 million user visits each day. Om Malik gave me the answer. According to someone inside Facebook, the company has a total over 10,000 servers. There are 1,800 servers specifically for MySQL that is maintained my two DBAs (Database Administrators). I guess if my web application goes well, I will need to get a lot of servers. That seems a little much, but I guess they know what they are doing.
At my work, we have a bunch of servers as well…and by a bunch, I mean chop of a few zeros from Facebook’s total. Sources say that Facebook will be buying $9 million worth more of servers to add onto their $7 million they spend already.
Posted at: 11:52 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Last Saturday I was at the Red Sox game when I dropped by BlackBerry into my beer. (Smithwick’s Ale) My phone still worked, but I couldn’t see the screen. After a day of drying out, the screen never showed back up and it is quite important when making calls. I had insurance on the phone and got a new one from the company. I figured all of my numbers and settings were gone, but the new phone came with BlackBerry Desktop Manager which allowed me to transfer all of my files, contacts and messages to my other phone. It made my life so much easier.
