Dive into the archives.
- Wrigley on Ice
Tomorrow at 10AM Pacific, I’ll be glued to the set, watching the Blackhawks battle the hated Red Wings. I’m pretty excited to watch this game though I did try everything possible to get back to Chicago for it. By not going though, I’m able to watch with the kids and that’ll be much, much better.
- Bridges to the Future
Kevin Matheny has written a really excellent piece at BusinessWeek, extolling the virtues of agile software development. I think it can be one of the toughest battles within a large organization but if you win and are allowed to be flexible, the benefits are easily more than any struggles you’ll have.
What this means for managing [...]
- Hadoop 0.19 Overview
It’s been out for a month or so but Cloudera gives a great overview of the changes.
The things I’m most interested in are the ability to append to files in the HDFS, chaining MapReduce jobs and the inclusion of Hive.
- Lists to Check Out
At the end of every year, plenty of time is spent reviewing what has already happened. Here are couple of lists that are worth your time…
30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
2nd Annual Winter/Holiday Beer Roundup
- Dynamic DNS
When I worked at CollabNet many moons ago, I used a laptop for my normal development but also used a desktop as a server for builds and testing things locally.
Since I worked from home, both were behind a router but I didn’t want to pony up money for a static IP so you [...]
- Getting Down to the Metal
Rails Metal looks pretty darn awesome. It allows you to specify specific URI paths which will bypass the normal Rails stack, shaving precious milliseconds off your responses and not making the Baby Jesus cry.
As a byproduct with a simple config item, you can start using Rack::Cache which is a very good HTTP cache that [...]
- Scoble on Twitter vs. FriendFeed
Robert Scoble posts about why he thinks Twitter is for some people while FriendFeed is not. Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever ready anything more arrogant or pandering. I’ve followed Scoble’s blog since his days before joining UserLand but I can’t recall anything like this.
Personally I haven’t found the need for FriendFeed. [...]
- Boing Boing’s Nonfiction book list
Boing Boing has put together a great list of nonfiction books to help with your holiday shopping. I’ve pretty much just sent the link out to all my family members that usually get me books for Christmas.
- Hadoop’ing at My Desk
Last week, I started scrounging around the office for some unused PC’s. Unfortunately, they were more than just a few because of all the things going on at the Times. I grabbed three, put them on my desk and spent the rest of a day installing Ubuntu on them. Everything went really [...]
