Archive Posts for: July 27, 2010

This seems to be the itext class to use for line wrapping and determining how many lines of text resulted.

ColumnText This seems to be the itext class to use for line wrapping and determining how many lines of text resulted. (tags: library publishing reference)

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Interesting article and comments looking at scalable key-store data stores like Riak, HBase, and Cassandra.

Blog of Data » Blog Archive » Riak and Cassandra and HBase, oh my! Interesting article and comments looking at scalable key-store data stores like Riak, HBase, and Cassandra. (tags: architecture database scaling)

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Handy memory optimization in Java image handling

Java 2D – Image width/height without loading file into JVM? Handy memory optimization (tags: java programming imaging)

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Running Hadoop MapReduce With Cassandra NoSQL

Running Hadoop MapReduce With Cassandra NoSQL « All Things Hadoop (tags: database architecture scaling)

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links for 2010-07-11

Logo Design, Web Design and Copywriting by the World's Best Creative Team | crowdSPRING Similar to Logoworks. Covered by the "On the Media" radio program on 11 July 2010. (tags: business design graphics web web2.0) Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site | Royal Pingdom Interesting list of the software technologies that Facebook [...]

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links for 2010-07-07

Welcome to the Shared Digital Future | www.hathitrust.org A way to access scanned books without going through Google (tags: books library metadata reference) Padraig O'Sullivan – Building a Small Cassandra Cluster for Testing and Development Handy little howto for setting up Cassandra (tags: database tutorial)

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