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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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, [...]