NoSQL Alternatives: An Interview with Gigaspaces CTO Nati Shalom
Since the dawn of software development, the relational database has served as the de facto solution for handling most of our data persistence needs. With the advent of a new breed of large scale, high...
View ArticleQuick Script To Download Members Of Twitter List Using Ruby And Twitter Gem
// Use twitter gem to download members of ruby list, using cursors for multiple pages<code> #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'twitter' httpauth =...
View ArticleDaily Dose - Nero AG Hits MPEG-LA With Antitrust Lawsuit
The German tech company, Nero AG, is suing MPEG-LA on antitrust charges this week because of the organization's burgeoning patent pool which now encumbers almost every video codec available. People...
View ArticleDaily Dose - Twitter Tinkers With Redis
Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and Facebook). Apparently they're not satisfied with...
View ArticleDaily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction...
View ArticleDaily Dose - GWT 2.1.1 - Just in Time for the Holidays
LucidWorks Enterprise - A Free to Download, High-Grade Solr Development PlatformGPars 0.11 Speeds Up ActorsUsing Twitter to Predict the Stock MarketIf people tried to pay for other services like they...
View ArticleTwitter Friends Widget V2.0 - JQuery Plugin
A new version of my most popular jQuery plugin -Twitter Friends widget. This version aims to be better looking and easier to setup. Refer to Tutorial : <a...
View ArticleTwikural - My App Engine Project that Delivers You Daily Thirukural Poetry
tldr; https://github.com/vraa/twikural It all started when I asked the following question to my twitter friends: My idea was simple: to send out Thirukural poems everyday to the people that are signing...
View ArticleLet Me Suggest an Ecosystem Platform for Pinterest
Pinterest is being touted as a web ecosystem platform that may potentially rival FaceBook. To be a web ecosystem platform, an online website property publishes an API enabling an ecosystem of 3rd...
View ArticleUsing Igraph to Mine Graph Analysis
Social Network Site such as Facebook, Twitter becomes are integral part of people's life in. People interact with each other in different form of activities and a lot of information has been captured...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Klouchebag
It's been four years since our last economic bubble and eleven since our last technology bubble, so it's possible that another one is coming soon. Or not. Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose I...
View ArticleOn June 7th, Get to MEET Windows Azure on Twitter
Here’s a perhaps rather redundant event for you but it should be kind of fun: MEET Windows Azure on Twitter (+ Beer). The idea is to list people who have a twitter account and intend to follow the MEET...
View ArticleWordPress Web Hosting Performance
If you follow Paulund on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ then you would probably know that recently I’ve been researching about new web hosting companies. Preview Text: If you follow Paulund on Twitter,...
View Article40+ Resources for the Node.js Developer
I am preparing to give a Brown Bag session on Node.js. Here are some notes: Main WebSite http://www.nodejs.org/ Preview Text: From node.js on Openshift to node.js patterns and 3rd party modules,...
View ArticleWhen Amazon Abandoned Main Street for 'the Skyscrapers of Cloud'
In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep...
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