@heckj- heckj: @johnderosa nope ... link?
- heckj: @johnderosa the beauty of open source is that you *can* do that. Even if you sinned :-)
- heckj: surprisingly pleased to find a gist of mine (http://gist.github.com/284927) has been forked 16 times
- heckj: Enjoying the riding, but found my bike prefs are way different than 10yrs ago when I bought this one. New bike parts in the future, at least
- heckj: Got my old bike fixed up, riding it to get groceries, exercise, and generally use the car even less.
- delicious links
- Hadoop Streaming August 31, 2010
- gist: 556508 - GitHub August 29, 2010
- ⚛ A Hudson/GitHub build process that works August 29, 2010
- High Scalability - High Scalability - Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns August 26, 2010
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. August 26, 2010
- 10 Common Hadoop-able Problems Webinar August 26, 2010
- InfoQ: Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources August 25, 2010
- InfoQ: DevOps Requires Visibility: Monitoring, Testing and Performance August 25, 2010
- Cloud Services August 25, 2010
- MapReduce with MongoDB and Python « myNoSQL August 25, 2010
Monthly Archives: August 2006
A subtle django performance hit
Wow – I’m really glad I learned about this performance hit on the Django list today. Turns out that in the process of attempting to give back from really nice error messages from the default AddManipulator’s in Django 0.95, it … Continue reading
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Is this real?
Good lord, I’ve got to wonder if this is real? Testimony that a guy was hired to “rig the elections” with voting machines? It sure sounds like legitimate testimony, but there hasn’t been anything in the major news outlets. You’d … Continue reading
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Seattle Mind Camp 3.0
Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 – coming this November…
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Michael – For the record
You had a good time putting one back at Zeitgeist. See – here you are with a few of your favorite thugs! (sorry it took so long to post)
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WORD
As seen on the Maven2 user’s mailing list: Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe And yes, that means I “get” to deal with VSS upon occasion.
How to write unmaintainable code
Ah, this is a brilliant bit of work: How to write unmaintainable code (and yes, it’s a commentary on what NOT to do when coding…)
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Converting from Django 0.91 to Django 0.95
In the 0.95 release code, the model valdiation logic can be a little shakey. In particular, I ran into this traceback today while doing a little code conversion: Traceback (most recent call last): File “manage.py”, line 11, in ? execute_manager(settings) … Continue reading
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The Peace War, by Vernor Vinge
I hadn’t read much of anything by Vernor Vinge until just recently, but man – I’ve sure been hearing the name about. When I was last in Queen Anne Avenue Books, I just went ahead and picked up a few … Continue reading
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teh suck for rails – software security
Wow – this is a beautifully detailed example of the security hole that existed in Rails version 1.1.4. I live more in the Django world, but I wouldn’t swear to anyone that similiar holes couldn’t be found there. Jeez, I … Continue reading
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The pacific northwest is good for MacOS X
Maybe it’s the weather, or the water, or .. hell, I dunno. But I think Chris has it pretty nailed when he called out the huge number of indie and professional mac programmers in the Seattle area in his WWDC … Continue reading
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