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Waiting for train

Don’t know how to adjust the light in iPhone – a bit to bright on the background!

Waiting for train

Don’t know how to adjust the light in iPhone – a bit to bright on the background!

Waiting for train

Don’t know how to adjust the light in iPhone – a bit to bright on the background!

Reflections on start-up life: Week 18

I woke up Tuesday morning last week to see that Twendly had suddenly gone “nuts”. Since our launch of Twendly we’ve been studiously ignoring it, not wanting to get distracted from the main goal — it taught us a lot but we didn’t want to waste more time on

Reflections on start-up life: Week 17

After a quiet month or so, I’ve been getting back into the networking and meeting with people again. Having completed the prototypes, both Alex and I focused on taking them out on the road and getting feedback. I think I met around 15–20 people last week that I

Part 2: Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day using RabbitMQ and Celery.

This is part two of my post on How to build a multi-threading processing queue. Set Static Execution Limits I suspect for many people this is now approaching the point where you have enough of a grip to be able to use this in anger in a lot of different

Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day hours using RabbitMQ and Celery.

As we move through the development cycle we now have many of the essential processing modules we need for Tribalytic, but we also have a few challenges we need to deal with as well: 1. We need to collect data faster than we can process it on a single processor.

Part 1: Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day using RabbitMQ and Celery.

This is part 1 — part 2 is over here. As we move through the development cycle we now have many of the essential processing modules we need for Tribalytic, but we also have a few challenges we need to deal with as well: 1. We need to collect data faster

Reflections on start-up life: Week 16

There is something about actually visualising output that feels like progress for me. Never mind that we’d spent 4 weeks crunching the numbers and doing all the “heavy lifting” to get to the point we could start working on the icing, but that last 2 days of effort where

Reflections on start-up life: Week 15

This last week get very close to a repeat of week four. The reasons were similar (scale of problem becoming clearer and a real challenge), but this time we decided to keep pushing through. The opportunity delivered by solving the engine problems are too great to ignore. It should be

Reflections on start-up life: Week 14

Well the first week with Alex back in China and us working remotely has passed remarkably smoothly. With Skype at hand, we can easily keep in touch and communicating which is great. We’ve also successfully split our work paths such that we can move on fairly independently from each

Reflections on start-up life: Week 13

As many of you know, Alex is from China and, visas being what they are, he’s now had to head back there. On the plus side I think this now makes us a multi-national company, on the downside we obviously have some additional challenges to do with distance. Of

AC/DC

At AC/DC concert in Melbourne tonight with Bruce

AC/DC

At AC/DC concert in Melbourne tonight with Bruce

AC/DC

At AC/DC concert in Melbourne tonight with Bruce

AC/DC

At AC/DC concert in Melbourne tonight with Bruce

Reflections on start-up life: Week 12

I’m not sure when the official “it’s been three months is” but this feels pretty close — 12 weeks in. Last week was a big one. After three months of trialling and experimenting with different ideas, we packed up our plans and put them on show to potential investors.

In Sydney, working hard

In Sydney, working hard

Alex and I are in Sydney for meetings this week. We’ve decided to knock off a bit early today and head out to Manly on the ferry.

In Sydney, working hard

Alex and I are in Sydney for meetings this week. We’ve decided to knock off a bit early today and head out to Manly on the ferry.

In Sydney, working hard

Alex and I are in Sydney for meetings this week. We’ve decided to knock off a bit early today and head out to Manly on the ferry.

In Sydney, working hard

Alex and I are in Sydney for meetings this week. We’ve decided to knock off a bit early today and head out to Manly on the ferry.

Reflections on start-up life: Week 11

It’s always great to look back at the goal from last week and realise you achieved it (refine and rework business pitch ready for Sydney). It’s not so great when you realise that’s the only thing you’ve done! I was reflecting this morning that even now,

Reflections on start-up life: Week 10

== This one was posted a week late — I sent it, but for some reason there was a Posterous fail and it didn’t end up on the blog. Only noticed it now! == Last week was very interrupted for a number of reasons — family events and then a HDD failure on

Docklands

We’ve headed in to the city today to take in some of the new deelipments in the docklands.

Docklands

We’ve headed in to the city today to take in some of the new deelipments in the docklands.