One of the things I really love about how we roll at work are server farms. I love that term, “server farm.” It’s very silly. All it means is several servers that are meant to work together. Just another way of thinking about computers. You could have one computer in Texas, another in New Jersey, and another in Ontario setup to be a server farm. It wouldn’t be very good (the distance between servers would make the performance poor), but it could easily be a fully functioning server farm.
The way we do server farms, however, is very different. We just use one server and call it a “farm.” That sounds even sillier. How can one computer be like four computers? Well, easy. You just have four computer’s worth of processors, four computer’s worth of disks, and four computer’s worth of memory in one physical case. You end up with one very beefy machine that you can optimize just like a many individual computers. Pretty cool.
Well, at least I think it’s cool.
BrewControl 1.0 is done and waiting final approval for the app store. It is one sexy app, but still a bit immature. Gotta refine just a couple points before I can be happy and move onto bigger additional features. I’ve got ideas, baby, I’ve got ideas.
My new project now seems to be trying to get the news out. It’s kinda interesting in that I actually enjoy telling folk about the app. It’s not hard or unnatural. This is what I was looking for.
Incidentally, you can follow @BrewControl on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BrewControl or visit the website at http://brewcontrolapp.com And I’ll have that link to the app store as soon as it’s available.
This is not a cat-in-bag situation, but I definitely want to start getting the word out a bit early. I’m wrapping up an iPhone app for coffee folk out there called BrewControl. The basic idea is to let the iPhone handle all the numeric aspects of coffee. Well, at least as much as it can.
Right now, the app does coffee-to-water ratio calculations, as well as brew timing. It can keep track of different brew types and their associated ratios and timer settings (countdown vs stopwatch, duration of timer, etc.). I’m trying to get a couple of my coffee heroes to test it for me, we’ll just see how that goes.
In the meantime, I will be putting the final layer of spit-polish on and send it out to Apple. I expect it to be in the store in the next two weeks.