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Entries from December 2007

SimpleDB aka why Relations are so 90’s

December 31st, 2007

I’m not really going to rant against relational databases, but this is more thinking about why technologies like CouchDB and SimpleDB are useful.
Some quick reference note:

Amazon SimpleDB and CouchDB compared
Eventual Consistency Is Not That Scarry
Falling Walls - VC view

Many things can be said about databases but it’s the problem space that they are trying to [...]

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Programming for kids?

December 10th, 2007

Just got done reading Jason Fry’s WSJ article about TV shows for kids, where he discusses Magic School Bus (From PET to Net).  The really thought provoking part is his remising about the commodore PET.  We all wrote programs like this when we were kids.
10 PRINT ‘JASON IS GREAT’20 GOTO 10RUN
My personal favorite on [...]

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Bad Metrics for Trends in Programming Languages

December 6th, 2007

Was reading a posting about Trends in web development according to Google one section got me me thinking.  Their trends show end user behavior as it relates to popularity.   However, when I think about language popularity I think in terms of programs written or lines of code produced…   The Google trend I think is a [...]

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Web Crawler…

December 5th, 2007

Thought for the day..week.. month…  I need a good web spider… 

grub - used by wikia (C)
heritrix - used by internet archive (java)
websphinx - random edu project (java)
larbin - (C++) pretty good and simple, best starting point.

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Ski Instructor Orientation

December 4th, 2007

A few years ago I spent a winter taking EMT classes to become an EMT…  One idea at the time was to hang out being ski patrol, but the hours that ski patrol works is not “family friendly”.  Getting out to the mountain way early to help setup and then late to help take down, [...]

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