July 2009
23 posts
Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day! →
Today, July 31, 2009, is the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! There’s a rather nice definition of the term sysadmin on the page, so if you’ve ever wondered who the target…
Jul 31st
Getting Good IO from Moody EBS →
Tips for getting better I/O from Amazon EBS
Jul 30th
Basecamp, now with more vroom. →
Some of you may have noticed over the past week or so that Basecamp has felt a bit zippier. Good news: it wasn’t your imagination. Let’s set the stage. Below, I’ve included a chart showing our…
Jul 28th
Sun's JRuby Team Jumps Ship to Engine Yard →
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Jul 28th
CodeSOD: What Fundamental Underpinning? →
Sascha was at wit’s end. “It’s a fundamental underpinning of the web! Server-side code cannot interact with the user’s web browser and tell it to close the window. You have to do it in…
Jul 27th
Home - MongoDB - 10gen Confluence →
mongodb - another couchdb type storage system
Jul 26th
How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 →
LinuxScribe tips a piece up at Linux.com with inside details on the design and construction of the Apollo 11 code. There are some analogies to open source development but they are slim. MIT drafted…
Jul 21st
How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead... →
Jul 21st
Rails 2.3.3: Touching, faster JSON, bug fixes →
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Jul 20th
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from... →
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Jul 17th
Stack Overflow Architecture →
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Jul 16th
Announcing the Quiltivate.com Quilt Builder →
Jul 15th
Carsonified » 23 Essential HTML 5 Resources →
Jul 15th
We Choose the Moon →
Live re-creation of the Apollo moon mission 40 years ago.
Jul 13th
Coding Horror: How Not to Advertise on the... →
‘Evony, thanks for showing us what it means to take advertising on the internet to the absolute rock bottom … then dig a sub-basement under that, and keep on digging until you reach the white-hot molten core of the Earth.’
Jul 11th
Merchant Account Lessons Learned →
Jul 11th
Wal-Mart's Twitter Account Comes with a 3,379-word... →
Only lawyers, EULA collectors and legal obsessives will find this funny, but it cracked me up: care to access the 140-character pearls of wisdom streaming forth from Wal-Mart’s Twitter…
Jul 9th
up and running with cassandra :: snax →
a hybrid non-relational database in the same class as Google’s BigTable - used by Twitter
Jul 7th
New algorithm guesses SSNs →
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Jul 7th
CouchDBX — The one-click CouchDB Package for the... →
CouchDB package for OS X
Jul 7th
NSA To Build 20 Acre Data Center In Utah →
Hugh Pickens writes “The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that the National Security Agency will be building a one million square foot data center at Utah’s Camp Williams. The NSA’s heavily automated…
Jul 2nd
The Program Accelerator →
As a postgrad in the late ’80s, Neil Bowers made some extra book money by acting as a helper in the computing lab. At the time, undergrads were all working on a grindingly slow VAX-11/780, and Neil…
Jul 2nd
Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced →
Django, but still cool.
Jul 2nd