Jens nails it:
Regarding attempting to write desktop apps with Java:
compared to any decent Mac app, the results look like a Soviet tractor built on a Monday.
@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