I am the technology products seller mentioned in the article. I have a BS in Comp Sci. from the University of Maine, 95', and have been a Software Engineer at several.com's until I wrote the code that is running my website (http://www.teckwave.com/#showMostViewed), eBay Store (http://stores.ebay.com/TECKWAVE), Amazon, and Google Base accounts.
It's written in Java using the Google Web Toolkit for the website and several Web Service API's for integration with the various marketplaces, distributors, and warehouses. It runs on Amazon's EC2 compute cloud and uses S3 for image hosting.
My intention from the start was to create a scalable software platform to make selling online easy, and I think I've about done it. Buy.com coming into eBay and getting their backroom deal has accelerated my plans. No hard feelings though, business is business.
If anyone's interested in helping me scale this platform please email me... tlibby *at* TECKWAVE.com
Evidently they had SOME backups... the site is up but some user pages got corrupted. A fix is mentioned in the forum.
From MySpace forums:
"MadBadgerWrote: Power cut in LA hit the MySpace servers......
Servers don't like lack of power.....
Servers being nasty.....
We don't like servers....
Tom attempting to fix servers with big hammer"
That $25,000 worth of insurace that comes with the purchase of most "Surge Protectors" will really come in handy now.;)
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I am the technology products seller mentioned in the article. I have a BS in Comp Sci. from the University of Maine, 95', and have been a Software Engineer at several .com's until I wrote the code that is running my website (http://www.teckwave.com/#showMostViewed), eBay Store (http://stores.ebay.com/TECKWAVE), Amazon, and Google Base accounts.
It's written in Java using the Google Web Toolkit for the website and several Web Service API's for integration with the various marketplaces, distributors, and warehouses. It runs on Amazon's EC2 compute cloud and uses S3 for image hosting.
My intention from the start was to create a scalable software platform to make selling online easy, and I think I've about done it. Buy.com coming into eBay and getting their backroom deal has accelerated my plans. No hard feelings though, business is business.
If anyone's interested in helping me scale this platform please email me... tlibby *at* TECKWAVE.com
Ignore them at your peril.
WTF has happened to my profile?
;)
Evidently they had SOME backups... the site is up but some user pages got corrupted. A fix is mentioned in the forum.
From MySpace forums:
"MadBadgerWrote: Power cut in LA hit the MySpace servers...... Servers don't like lack of power..... Servers being nasty..... We don't like servers.... Tom attempting to fix servers with big hammer"
That $25,000 worth of insurace that comes with the purchase of most "Surge Protectors" will really come in handy now.