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Edward J. Yoon: PageRank with Apache Hama
The dataset contains 5,716,808 pages and 130,160,392 links and is unzipped ~1gb large. [oracle@bda03 hama-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT]$ hadoop dfs -ls edward Found 1 items -rw-r--r-- 3 oracle hadoop 1058414409...
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Adrian Sutton: Brawling on a Plane
From Straights Times:A flier aboard Sunday’s Swiss airline flight – a 57-year-old Chinese man [...] felt disturbed during his meal when the passenger in front of him reclined his chair.[...]“The older...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Should I work for free?
Jessica Hische’s flowchart for determining whether or not you should work for free for somebody. In summary, if it’s for a legitimate business: no. Otherwise, it depends. Mostly reasonable advice...
View ArticleDejan Bosanac: Messaging Anti-Patterns: Part 3
OK, after basic anti-patterns discussed in part 1 and 2 of this series, it’s time to discuss a bit more sophisticated messaging anti-patterns and how to write better messaging-oriented applications....
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Bryan Pendleton: Kramnik-Aronian, Istanbul Olympiad round 6
Absolutely gorgeous astonishing superb play from Kramnik; move 23 rends open Black's queenside and Kramnik roars in and lays waste. Wander over to Chess King's site and watch the former world champion...
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Matt Raible: We bought a boat!
I've always enjoyed whitewater rafting. I think the first time I did it was in college and I immediately fell in love. Through the years, I've been on many trips with family and friends. However, it...
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Bryan Pendleton: 2nd/1st RNZIR farewell
This is one of the most powerful and moving funeral videos you will ever see: video here.
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Yoav Shapira: On this birthday, I feel lucky
Today is my birthday. I'm feeling luckier and more blessed than usual, which is saying a lot, since I'm often fairly happy with my lot in life. On this birthday, I want to thank my family and friends....
View ArticleIsabel Drost: FrOSCon - Git Goodies
In his talk on Git Goodies Sebastian Harl introduced not only some of the lesser known git tooling but also gave a brief introduction as to how git organises its database. Starting with an explanation...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Once a Chump, Always a Chump
The first time I ever presented at an “International Tech Conference” was ApacheCon 2006 in Austin TX. Even though there were probably only ~200 people in the world who knew what Solr was at that...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Lucene/Solr 4.0-ALPHA – What’s In A Name?
Lucene & Solr 4.0-ALPHA were released on July 3, 2012. This is a huge milestone for the project, and the culmination of an idea that was spawned 2 years ago with the creation of the 4x branch. I’ve...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Buck the Nonexistent Photo Guild
One of the constant messages in photoblog circles is “Don’t work for free!” There are a bunch of arguments for this, from the formal to the informal, but they all pretty much boil down to the fear that...
View ArticleJames Duncan: WordPress goes high resolution
Matt Mullenweg announces that WordPress now serves up double-density images where possible. “ Since we create all images dynamically on the fly, what we do is if you’ve uploaded a higher resolution...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-05
Estonia introduces coding classes to 8-year-olds ‘ProgreTiiger education will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7 or 8 for Estonians. The compsci education will...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Upgrades: SPDY, IPv6, FreeBSD, Jekyll
Upgrades: FreeBSD on Cloud Servers: This site is now being served from a Rackspace Open Cloud Server running FreeBSD 9. This includes using a PF firewall, ZFS root, etc. HTTPS: The site now supports...
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Bryan Pendleton: Pulphead: a very short review
One of the books I read this summer was John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead. It's another one of those books that is cheaper in its paperback edition than on the Kindle; I read the paperback edition....
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David Reid: Round One Results
It appears that the enormous number of objections (over 240 against with only one in favour) to the proposal to erect a monitoring mast at Newmiln caused Ecotricity to revert to plan B. They have...
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David Reid: C5 Packages & db.xml
Until I started looking at the code it wasn’t apparent how a package should add tables to the database when being installed in Concrete5. As with much in C5 the answer is simple, but not easily found...
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David Reid: C5 Installing an Attribute Type
If you have an attribute type in a package you need to do a little additional work in the install routine to get it registered fully with the system. /* We install the attribute... */...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Stump The Chump? Win A Prize!
One month from today we’ll be kicking off Apache Lucene Eurocon in Barcelona, and I will once again be in the hot seat for a session of Stump The Chump. During the session, moderator and former “Chump”...
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