Archive for August, 2009

Keyboard Not Working in Xorg After Booting Ubuntu

19th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Keyboard Not Working in Xorg After Booting Ubuntu | Mats Lindh
I ran int this problem, and the fix described here worked like a charm.
(tags: linux)

Comprehensive guide for how to make your web apps secure.

18th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Guide Table of Contents – OWASP
Comprehensive guide for how to make your web apps secure.
(tags: programming web guide security)

How a Scala script can specify what JARs should be added to its CLASSPATH

17th August 2009 by eamonn 4 Comments

The reason the Scala programming language has such a name is that it is meant to be scalable, i.e. good for both small scripts and large software systems. I am already convinced that Scala is as good, if not better than Java for the large-scale development, but what about the small scale?
Well it turns [...]

Gluster is a distributed file system, open source but with commercial support option.

15th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Gluster – Home
a distributed file system, open source but with commercial support option.
(tags: scaling network)

Example of tilted text (Safari or Chrome)

11th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

V8 // ShaunInman.com
Example of tilted text (Safari or Chrome)
(tags: programming design javascript web css)

Riak is a “nosql” database, similar to CouchDB

8th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Riak – A Decentralized Database
Another nosql database, similar to CouchDB
(tags: architecture scaling database)

How Amazon builds and scales its systems

6th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
An excellent paper describing the Amazon's Dynamo system that is the model for the open-source Voldemort project. There are also some interesting insights into how Amazon generally builds and scales its systems.
(tags: programming design architecture database scaling technology network)

Announcing Goat Rodeo

4th August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Lift, Goat Rodeo and Such – David Pollak's Blog
The author of Lift expresses some interesting points of view about web application architecture and announces the Goat Rodeo project.
(tags: architecture web2.0 programming)

Single-tier web applications with static files and CouchDB

3rd August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Urbantastic – Tech Tuesday: The Fiddly Bits
An architectural approach that uses mostly static HTML and JSON, powered by CouchDB.
(tags: programming web2.0 javascript ajax web architecture database json scaling)

Biologically inspired attempt to overcome scalability problems of Linda

2nd August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

On the implementation of SwarmLinda
This and other SwarmLinda papers have a useful discussion of the scalability problems of Linda. The proposed solution however seems a bit dubious to me, though it would be cool if such biologically inspired mechanisms actually worked.
(tags: architecture scaling)

A Survey of Concurrency Constructs
(tags: architecture scaling programming)

links for 2009-08-01

1st August 2009 by eamonn No Comments

HadoopStreaming – Hadoop Wiki
Map-Reduce with shell scripts as mappers and reducers — implemented on top of Hadoop.
(tags: architecture scaling)

Last.fm – the Blog · Mapreduce Bash Script
Map-Reduce implemented as a bash script!
(tags: programming code linux architecture scaling)

Home – filemap – GitHub
A simple Map-Reduce framework in which the processing elements are executables operating on files. It [...]