Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Running Hadoop on Windows

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a an open source Apache project written in Java and designed to provide users with two things: a distributed file system (HDFS) and a method for distributed computation. It's based on Google's published Google File System and MapReduce concept which discuss how to build a framework ...

Surprisingly basic Rails performance tips - and the people that don’t love them

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Antonio Cangiano offers up 10 Ruby on Rails Performance tips, some of which are really just good practice in any web application and aren't specific to Rails. This includes gems like: don’t be afraid of using the cool features provided by your database, even if they are not directly supported by ...