July 2007
14 posts
Links for 2007-07-27 [del.icio.us]
uncov, uncovering web2
Still don’t get the strategy of developing a web2.0 company while bashing everyone at the same time.
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Twitter Malfunctions
I think Twitter is neat. The concept of aggregating brief messages from
multiple sources is simple but fun, useful, and technically interesting (well
to me anyway). But I have had
a couple strange malfunctions in the past couple days. The most disconcerting
was that SMS notifications were turned on in the middle of the night unleashing
a small torrent of messages on my phone, walking me up.
...
Links for 2007-07-19 [del.icio.us]
Tenerife Skunkworks Amazon S3: Now with locking, transactions and no delay between writing and reading
This sounds most excellent. Erlang + mnesia + s3.
Tenerife Skunkworks Amazon S3: Now with locking, transactions and no delay between writing and reading
This sounds like it is going in the direction I was thinking with my twitter/s3 posts. Very interesting.
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Erlang hacking
If you’ve been following my
tweets, you know that after about
6 months of trying to figure out a new side project, I’ve decided to teach
myself
Erlang.
In short, it will have you digging deep into your CS education to remember
languages like Prolog and ML. And after using languages like Python, the syntax
is well, ugly. And it certainly doesn’t read like prose, which...
Links for 2007-07-17 [del.icio.us]
Bubble in the desert
Pretty amazing blog about hiking the Sierra Crest trail. This is the west coast version of the Appalachian trail.
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Links for 2007-07-15 [del.icio.us]
BoConcept Home
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Links for 2007-07-12 [del.icio.us]
Zenoss : Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring
Homepage of ZABBIX :: An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution
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Links for 2007-07-11 [del.icio.us]
Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures
Wow Microsoft, hire this guy ASAP.
Delta Gunite: California
Shotcrete contractor in sacremento.
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Visual Studio SP1 takes forever to install
This is crazy.
This is my favorite part:
Because VS 2005 SP1 is so large, it takes a long time - typically around 10 minutes - to load the entire image into memory in order to generate a hash over the image.
Update: Now the patch is just sitting there saying “Time Remaining: 0 seconds.” I think Microsoft has lost their collective mind.
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Links for 2007-07-08 [del.icio.us]
Mnesia Reference Manual
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Links for 2007-07-07 [del.icio.us]
How to Write a Spelling Corrector
I think the list comprehension syntax in python is amazingly elegant.
Spell corrector (aka Google suggest) in Erlang (first iteration) | Federico Feroldi’s blog
here’s an erlang version. Oh man python list comprehensions have it all over Erlang. Guido is a genius.
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S3 Twitter: What is needed is quick hash append
I dug up couple interesting posts from ‘Al’ at Folknologist (sorry,
I can’t find Al’s full name on his blog).
First is a comment on the
circleshare blog regarding Twitter’s
database scaling issues:
The big problem is the inserts (if the backend is a db), every tweet has to be inserted. Thus even if you have a fast messaging (in memory) the write that...
Links for 2007-07-03 [del.icio.us]
The Chord/DHash Project - Overview
This looks pretty cool. I think google can only be stopped in a distributed fashion. A distributed file system is a start.
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Twitter on S3: S3 objects as lists
S3 as a data store was still on my mind as
I rolled out of the fog and into Marin on my bike ride today.
Let me take the thought experiment a bit further. Let’s
assume tweets could be reliably blocked and written to S3
objects. Just to put a number on it, let’s say 1000 tweets are
stored in one S3 object.
If every tweet in one object is by a different user, how does...