@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: February 2008
images only
for the next week, I’ll only be posting images to my flickr feed …
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Spring
Spring BBum has much better pictures of Crocus‘ though.
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To the spammer using my email address…
To the spammer who is forging emails using my email address: I wish upon you a painful, itching, blistering pox of your nether regions, Coprolalia upon your lips so that the world may hear from your lips what I think … Continue reading
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Bill Gates Touts Free Developer Kits for Students – too little, too late?
Megan McCarthy writes Bill Gates Touts Free Developer Kits, Global Progress in Stanford Speech | Epicenter from Wired.com in which she links to the press release from Microsoft: “Microsoft founder Bill Gates talked about the future of technology and the … Continue reading
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getting ReviewBoard running
I made some notes on getting Review Board up and running. I thought they might be useful for someone else wishing to do the same… I implemented review board on a virtual machine, with the VM running Ubuntu Gutsy. I … Continue reading
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Politics – Causcasing in Seattle
Until I moved to Seattle seven years ago, I had no idea what a caucas system was. I participated in the caucus for the last election, and today was the caucus for the primaries in the ’08 presidential election. Caucasing … Continue reading
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Starting in with ReviewBoard
I’ve been meaning to dive into the project ReviewBoard since I first heard about it, many months ago. I had first heard of a similar critter – Google’s internal tool called Mondrian. I was pretty darn excited about that tool … Continue reading
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Django on Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
I slapped together a virtual machine to try out an instance of ReviewBoard. It’s been a little while since I fiddled with Ubuntu, so I grabbed the latest server release(7.10) and set it up. Then I settled in to get … Continue reading
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One of those interesting differences between python and ruby…
In fiddling with ruby, I noticed that the method names can be really interesting – rails (maybe others too, dunno) has some methods that look like: object.stop? which is typically used to return a boolean indicating wether or not “stop” … Continue reading
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Jake Shimabukuro
I’m heading to see Jake Shimabukuro at Jazz Alley tonight. I’ve seen Jake play two other times, and this guy is just amazing. If you ever get a chance to hear this guy spin out some tunes, go listen. While … Continue reading
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