Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are going through a big data revolution, so will baseball. Hadoop, with its ability to manage massive data sets, is about to change the game of baseball. MORE >>

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. If You Liked This Post. MORE >>

I just read a blog post entitled “ You can do it alone ” as well as the ensuing discussion on Hacker News. Paul Graham says: You can certainly start a business without a cofounder. What’s hard to do, empirically, is to start one that gets really big. But I digress). was like the US-East (N. Virginia) AWS data center for IndexTank. MORE >>

I was programming a Ruby on Rails app today when I came across a strange bug. After installing the VCR Gem my RSpec tests began failing after the first one was run. The result was that every I updated my spec, I was forced to run the standard rake db:test:prepare command to get things working. file: DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation. MORE >>

Summary: At long last, Lean Startup has become a global movement. While more an more of us are talking about Lean Startup, far fewer are talking about how tedious, frustrating, and tough it is in practice. In this post I share what my personal experience has been like – and it hasn’t followed the Lean Startup script. The rest is legend. MORE >>