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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I did a quick talk at Austin on Rails last night about my experience using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx for doing full-text search on CheapTweet. We did a series of short talks last night so this is only a 10 minute overview. Hope some of you will find it helpful.
Quick ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I gave a talk last night (3/24/2009) at Austin on Rails about building a new (yet-to-be-released) application called TweetReach using tools that are somewhat off the beaten path. These included Sinatra, Tokyo Cabinet and my new Twitter API library: Grackle (which I'll talk about in more detail in a future ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
I attended the Lone Star Ruby Conference (LSRC), held here in Austin over the past two days. As this was my first conference on the topic, I thought I would share some observations. First, a vigorous caveat emptor... I'm a former Java guy still relatively new to the Ruby world. ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Inspired by conversations with some smart people at a recent Semantic Web Austin event, I've undertaken to restart my education on semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, Microformats, etc. When I wear my web developer hat, I'm definitely an advocate of clean semantic markup that correctly describes the structure of ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
With apologies to Tyler Cohen...
Normalization is a kind of ethical system for data.
This is from a great post on the always fascinating High Scalability about how you sometimes just have to let go and de-normalize.
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
I started playing with Erlang last year. Mostly that meant reading the Joe Armstrong book, looking at ejabberd and writing a little code. Sadly, I've not had the chance to go much beyond the "playing" stage. Anyway, I've got a soft spot for functional languages like Erlang since my Programming ...
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