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Pyblosxom - main site
Still alive and kicking after all these years.
blog  blogging  design  python 
february 2012 by mcroydon
The Basho Blog: Secondary Indexes in Riak
It's great to see secondary indexes landed.
basho  blog  nosql  riak 
september 2011 by mcroydon
Code as Craft
You should be instrumenting your deploys.
blog  development  etsy  programming  softwaredevelopment 
december 2010 by mcroydon
tidypub - publish classy
Inspiring from a "do something simple well" point of view.
text  tools  publishing  blog  sharing 
december 2010 by mcroydon
Buzz Kill : LOL: The Life of Leo
"I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves."
analysis  attention  blogging  blog  facebook  blogs  social  news  microblogging  media  google  social_media  socialmedia  socialnetworking  twitter  web  leolaporte  googlebuzz  echochamber  criticism  blog  buzz  social.media 
august 2010 by mcroydon
How to encode all of your videos, quickly and cheaply! | PiCloud Blog
Using ffmpeg and picloud to parallelize your encoding. It requires knowing your input formats pretty well though.
and  blog  article  cloud  convert  howto  code  cloud-computing  ffmpeg  encoding  encode  development  programming  server  python  transcoding  video  videos  web  media  webdevelopment  webdev  picloud 
july 2010 by mcroydon
What Is Google Editions? - Culture - The Atlantic
Ebooks are definitely poised for a tipping point.
blog  books  cloud  google  header  toread  ebooks 
july 2010 by mcroydon
Table of Contents | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
Really well written and clearly presented. This looks like a great resource for folks looking to learn them some Erlang.
blog  book  books  computer  computers  dev  free  faq  erlang  ebook  documentation  development  functional  guide  language  languages  learning  programming  tutorials  tutorial  toread  resource  reference  functionalprogramming 
may 2010 by mcroydon
New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
Some of these are already old and tired while others are fresh and amusing.
article  code  blog  coding  dev  development  geek  jargon  humor  programmer  programming  software  softwaredevelopment  jokes  nerd  slang  vocabulary 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Frequently Asked Question #75
<lj-cut>: file under obscure cultural references.
blog  blogs  coding  faq  good  docs  help  hobbies  how-to  tags  reference  markup  livejournal  imported  howto  html  tutorial  tech  tools  cut  journal  ljcut  lj 
april 2010 by mcroydon
Designing for iPad: Reality Check
A really thorough look at what works, what doesn't and what's lame when developing for the iPad.
3d  apple  ai  application  article  blog  check  design  dev  development  digital  interactiondesign  ia  interface  iphone  ipad  reference  mobile  toread  tips  typography  webdesign  webapps  ux  ui  interfacedesign 
april 2010 by mcroydon
VMware: the new Redis home
Wow and congrats. Redis seems to be this year's Open Source poster child.
blog  couchdb  news  database  opensource  redis  toread  vmware 
march 2010 by mcroydon
Lineland
Scroll through for lots and lots of HBase internals.
blog  distributed  hadoop  hbase  nosql  mapreduce  programming  systems  storage  reference 
march 2010 by mcroydon
Let's Discuss the Matter Further » Ubuntu Python: raise an exception, import 190 modules
Ouch. I was planning to take a look at Ubuntu One at some point but this makes me want to uninstall it right now.
python  design  linux  blog  ubuntu  ideas  exceptions  import  site  wtf  apport 
february 2010 by mcroydon
Less Talk, More Code: Usage stats and Redis
A similar approach to how I've seen Hive and other data-warehousing-oriented frameworks solve hit aggregation by date. Using redis no less.
python  blog  rails  stats  messaging  queue  amqp  logging  redis  rabbitmq 
february 2010 by mcroydon
northtemple - On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing
This is exactly why the iPad is a game changer. Welcome to the future, folks.
design  blog  history  apple  technology  interesting  iphone  computing  computers  interface  culture  future  communication  essay  genius  change  ipad 
february 2010 by mcroydon
Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero
Yeah, I've been a hero and still am on occasion. I'm trying hard not to be though, which should count for something.
programming  software  blog  work  management  productivity  blogs  jobs  career  lifehacks  projectmanagement  employment  leadership  life  hero  alexpayne 
january 2010 by mcroydon
Welcome to Cartography 2.0
"Cartography 2.0 is a free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps."
design  mapping  maps  toread  blog  tutorial  free  gis  visualization  book  geo  books  map  online  web2.0  education  interface  guide  3d  geography  animation  academia  interactive  cartography  articles  academic  webmapping  animated  axismaps  cartographie 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Official Google Blog: Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed ...
Gives you more hints about what the browser (Chrome) is doing than similar tools. It's not universal but what makes Chrome render slow may also affect other Webkit-based browsers and if you're lucky, browsers in general.
google  tools  blog  javascript  performance  browser  tool  webapp  debugging  read  chrome  debugger  extension  watch  speed  firebug  optimisation  speedtracer  gwt  applicaion  tracer  toinvestigate 
december 2009 by mcroydon
The CV Inn
Really good looking LaTeX-based CV templates with tutorials and commentary.
blog  latex  templates  job  application  resume  cv  curriculum  via:pskomoroch 
november 2009 by mcroydon
The Soulmen | We Got It! › Ulysses 2.0
I don't quite get the full screen thing, but this looks like a really powerful wordsmithing app.
software  tools  apple  mac  blog  cool  text  osx  app  latex  application  apps  inspiration  writing  tool  editor  macintosh  download  blogging  publishing  macosx  creativity  editing  office  organization  word  ulysses  texteditor  brainstorming  schreiben 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Journal of Eivind Uggedal: NoSQL East 2009 - Summary of Day 1
Some interesting bits and more of the same but I really like the dark-launch approach that Scribe allows.
data  database  toread  blog  scalability  internet  distributed  article  hadoop  scaling  db  cloud  couchdb  conference  papers  keyvalue  nosql  links  cassandra  2009  mongodb  dynomite  riak 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Geeking with Greg: Advice from Google on large distributed systems
With links to slides from LADIS '09. This includes a refresh and update about how GFS, MapReduce, etc are working in Google's fault-filled environment.
programming  google  blog  scalability  storage  performance  architecture  distributed  advice  scaling  infrastructure  systems  datacenters 
october 2009 by mcroydon
High-end Varnish-tuning « Kristian's web log
Tuning advice for when the whack-a-mole approach stops working.
reference  blog  server  network  sysadmin  performance  article  http  tips  cache  proxy  tuning  revsys  varnish 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Open source collaboration done right
There should be way more anecdotes like this in the open source world than there are.
web  linux  opensource  blog  collaboration  bug  qa  sociology 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Nokia in Trouble? How Fast Can a Mobile Device Giant React? | MEOW! Blog
I believe that Nokia are already well ahead of this timeline but it's an interesting look at the potential challenges in front of them.
mobile  development  business  nokia  apple  blog  technology  iphone  management  analysis  culture  future  strategy  ux  economics  market  industry  mobility 
october 2009 by mcroydon
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