Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
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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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Neil McAllister at Fatal Exception, inspired by the recent announcement that some flash data will be exposed to search engines asks the very intriguing question, "Is the Web still the Web?" The reason for asking is the proliferation of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as the aforementioned Flash, Silverlight, ...
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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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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Cesar Torres analyzed the new Facebook profile design yesterday as did TechCrunch. Both come to the same conclusion: Facebook is trying to become a web operating system. Both cite the use of a Mac OSX-style menu design (a weak indicator of an "OS" in my opinion) but Cesar goes farther ...
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