Find a need and fulfill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. ~A. G. Gaston
I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But I never went into business to make money. I went... so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before. ~Amar Bose
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~Walt Disney
It always looks impossible until it's done. ~Nelson Mandela
Software being "Done" is like lawn being "Mowed". ~Jim Benson
If you’re creating a company, it’s important to limit the number of miracles in series. Start with something that’s the most doable and then expand from there. ~Elon Musk
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ~Mark Twain
Everybody told me no at first, including my wife. I turned the nos into yeses and the disadvantages into advantages. ~John H. Johnson
The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up. ~Mae C. Jemison
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. ~Ruby Dee
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. ~Amelia Earhart
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. ~Quincy Jones
What an adventure… WindyCityRails 2015 achieved record attendance. Feedback has been amazing. Thank you speakers, sponsors, and attendees for making everything happen so well!
Here’s a 2-minute video recap of WindyCityRails 2015:
WindyCityRails is on track to sell out this year. You could be part of the group that achieves the goal. Use discount code CHICAGORUBY for $50 off before 9/5/2015. Register now.
Something we should know about putting an “@” in the first character position on Twitter…
Limited Visibility
When you start a tweet with a Twitter handle (with the “@” in the first character position) Twitter interprets that as a message to another Twitter user. Only people who follow both the sender and receiver will see the message in their stream.
Parallella is a single-board computer roughly the size of a credit card or Raspberry Pi. It runs Linux. It has 18 processor cores, two ARM and sixteen RISC. You can buy this device online for about $150.00.
The Madison+ Ruby organizers invited me to present Parallella at the conference earlier today. Video and slides appear below.
Experimenting with Parallella? Then you might need a way to protect it. The original acrylic cases are no longer available. Fortunately, 3D printing offers a solid alternative.