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Comic strips and contextual advertising
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Linkdump: Coop, HBase performance and a bit of Warcraft
Riptano is to Cassandra what Cloudera is to Hadoop or Percona to MySQL. Mmmkey?
A great, insightful post from Pingdom (as usual) allows us to take a peek behind the doors at largest web sites in the world, just by reading selected stuff from their respective developer blogs. Yahoo decreased ...Google’s Map/Reduce patent and impact on Hadoop: none expected
From the GigaOm analysis:
Fortunately, for them, it seems unlikely that Google will take to the courts to enforce its new intellectual property. A big reason is that “map” and “reduce” functions have been part of parallel programming for decades, and vendors with deep pockets certainly could make arguments that ...
Google: sorry, but Lisp/Ruby/Erlang not on the menu
Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational – at least for me). So, there: I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to ...Java going down, Python way up, and more …
According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is ...
memcached vs tugela vs memcachedb
This presentation was planned for an older Wurbe event, but as this never quite happened in the last 4 months I am publishing it now, before it becomes totally obsolete.
SEO eye for the Tapestry guy
One of my previous customers has a Jakarta Tapestry [3.0.x] based site. The site is subscription-based, but it also has a public area – if you browse each and every link you should be able to view few thousand of [dynamically generated] pages. No SEO* consulting was involved in ...
JCS: the good, the bad and the undocumented
Java Caching System is one of the mainstream opensource and free Java caches*, along with OSCache, EHCache and JbossCache. Choosing JCS may be the subject of an article by itself, since this API has a vastly undeserved reputation of being a buggy, slow cache. Exactly this reputation has motivated the ...
XML descriptors in PHP frameworks – considered harmful
No, I am not a seasoned PHP programmer and I do not intend to become one. But we do live in a harsh economy where all IT projects are worth considering, thus my occasional incursions in the world of of PHP-driven websites.
I am not new to PHP either ...(Undocumented?) HTTP-based REST API in Jira
While the REST API is mentioned in the Top 10 Reasons to use Jira, I can hardly see any reference to such an external API in the documentation (I mean, besides XML-RPC and upcoming SOAP support) and even Google can’t clear the issue. But I can confirm you ...