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Theron Conrey writes about using: BitTorrent Sync as Geo-Replication for Storage We got a chance to talk about this idea at Linuxcon. I'm not entirely convinced there aren't some problem edge cases with this solution, but I think it will be hard to tell as long as the BitTorrent sync library is proprietary. I did come up with a special case of Theron's idea that I believe could work well. The special case uses the optimization that t..
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Theron Conrey writes about using: BitTorrent Sync as Geo-Replication for Storage We got a chance to talk about this idea at Linuxcon. I'm not entirely convinced there aren't some problem edge cases with this solution, but I think it will be hard to tell as long as the BitTorrent sync library is proprietary. I did come up with a special case of Theron's idea that I believe could work well. The special case uses the optimization that t..
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Slices are used everywhere in my code. If I am working with data from MongoDB, it is stored in a slice. If I need to keep track of a collection of problems after running an operation, it is stored in a slice. If you don’t understand how slices work yet or have been avoiding them like I did when I started, read these two posts to learn more. https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2013/08/understanding-slices-in-go-programming.html https..
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Hi All, I wrote this a while back for myself and finally got around to polishing it enough to release into the store. It’s a really basic app which will connect to your flurry account and show you new users and number of sessions while your out and about! http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store/app/flurrystats/94d9ad3c-61d2-4ce6-8a61-60b4b8b1fe87
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An Ant Hill is a masterpiece of nature. Hidden from the human eye it grows intricate, complex and deep. It’s a beautiful structure crafted by one of the most humble creatures. But in the world of Colosseum’s and Eiffel’s tower it is generally overlooked. How do we define creativity in such a context? Is creativity … Continue reading Creativity: Taj Mahals and Ant-Hills
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I’m here in New Orleans hacking up a storm and getting to meet fellow gluster users IRL. John Mark Walker started off with a great “State of the GlusterFS union” style talk. Today Louis (semiosis) gave a great talk about running glusterfs on amazon. It was highly pragmatic and he explained how he chose the number of bricks per host. The talk will be posted online shortly. Marco Ceppi from Canonical gave a talk about juju and glust....
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I’m here in New Orleans hacking up a storm and getting to meet fellow gluster users IRL. John Mark Walker started off with a great “State of the GlusterFS union” style talk. Today Louis (semiosis) gave a great talk about running glusterfs on amazon. It was highly pragmatic and he explained how he chose the number of bricks per host. The talk will be posted online shortly. Marco Ceppi from Canonical gave a talk about juju and glust....
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SoundCloud has a service-oriented architecture, which allows us to use different languages for different services. With concurrency and…
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Just over a decade ago, the dotcom bubble burst, and for the next 3-4 years, the IT industry (and IT job market) was in a slump. During the last presentation I did for Game On 2.0 on August 29th, one of the audience members asked me what the dotcom bubble actually was. I supplied the standard Web answer of “overspending in the IT market” and “mismanagement of IT resources” (or something like that).
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Just over a decade ago, the dotcom bubble burst, and for the next 3-4 years, the IT industry (and IT job market) was in a slump. During the last presentation I did for Game On 2.0 on August 29th, one of the audience members asked me what the dotcom bubble actually was. I supplied the standard Web answer of “overspending in the IT market” and “mismanagement of IT resources” (or something like that).
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I have been working with some of the above products at work for the past couple of weeks and I just cam
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SoundCloud has a service-oriented architecture, which allows us to use different languages for different services. With concurrency and…
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Today is an interesting and perhaps historic day in the domain industry. GoDaddy has acquired Afternic and SmartName from Name Media . Name Media is probably best known for the BuyDomains brand. They own one of the largest portfolios of domain names in the world at nearly 1 million domains . GoDaddy is the largest player on the consumer side of the domain market by a wide margin. However, they aren't the biggest player and/or have....
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Today is an interesting and perhaps historic day in the domain industry. GoDaddy has acquired Afternic and SmartName from Name Media . Name Media is probably best known for the BuyDomains brand. They own one of the largest portfolios of domain names in the world at nearly 1 million domains . GoDaddy is the largest player on the consumer side of the domain market by a wide margin. However, they aren't the biggest player and/or have....
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Today is an interesting and perhaps historic day in the domain industry. GoDaddy has acquired Afternic and SmartName from Name Media . Name Media is probably best known for the BuyDomains brand. They own one of the largest portfolios of domain names in the world at nearly 1 million domains . GoDaddy is the largest player on the consumer side of the domain market by a wide margin. However, they aren't the biggest player and/or have....
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Every so often I like to take a break from the whole technology gamut and read something else. Preferably, something exceptional like Coronado High from The Atavist. Telling the fascinating origin story of what grew from a few California kids running drugs to a multi-million dollar narcotics empire, Coronado High is much more than a fantastically-written, gripping tale of a bygone era. I wouldn’t dream of spoiling it for you though: thi..
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Every once in a while, Letters of Note posts something great, a letter I just have to share. This is one such letter. For me , the last one was a speech William Safire wrote for President Nixon in preparation for a disaster during the moon landing; perhaps the best speech I have ever read. Permalink.
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Last week I acquired access to the Instapaper beta prior to its launch alongside iOS 7. I chronicled that story in I Finally Understand Bias . Since then, I have put off writing about the beta for a number of reasons: as a beta, the onus would have been on me to explain every single aspect of the new design or include numerous screenshots. Unlike the Federico Viticcis of the world, I did not find that prospect particularly appealing. Mor..
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Every once in a while I come across an application that is so comically insecure that I feel the urge to blog about it. The application in question is a .NET application to manage care homes and provide a Medical Administration Record for residents. Staff login to the app using a username and passwo...
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Every once in a while I come across an application that is so comically insecure that I feel the urge to blog about it. The application in question is a .NET application to manage care homes and provide a Medical Administration Record for residents. Staff login to the app using a username and passwo...
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Last week, amidst the frenzy preluding Apple’s impending iPhone event, I posted an article titled Instapaper 5 . I did not have early access to a beta or any insight as to the direction Betaworks planned on taking the service; instead, I merely wished to put forth a possible launch strategy for the upcoming update and outline a number of improvements I had been considering. I posted the article with minor expectations, thinking it would ..
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Yesterday, Apple lifted the press embargo on both iPhone and iOS 7 reviews in conjunction with the operating system’s release to the general public. Like most of the internet, I got little to no work done once the reviews and new apps started rolling out. I did, however, succeed in pulling together this list and brief overview of the best reviews I came across throughout the day, for your reading pleasure. Permalink.
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This post is about the Twitter change from Ruby to Java, some years ago, fact that, sadly, is still being used by some people to say that Ruby sucks and Java is the best language in the world.
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Repository: @knadh/xmlutils.py GitHub release page: v1.0.0 Full Changelog : https://github.com/knadh/xmlutils.py/compare/v0.94.0...v1.0.0
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After hacking away on Monday and Tuesday and meeting fellow nerds IRL, I’ve landed even more changes to puppet-gluster . My git master branch now sits at 47 commits. $ git clone https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster.git Cloning into 'puppet-gluster'... remote: Counting objects: 317, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (144/144), done. remote: Total 317 (delta 187), reused 275 (delta 148) Receiving o....
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After hacking away on Monday and Tuesday and meeting fellow nerds IRL, I’ve landed even more changes to puppet-gluster . My git master branch now sits at 47 commits. $ git clone https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster.git Cloning into 'puppet-gluster'... remote: Counting objects: 317, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (144/144), done. remote: Total 317 (delta 187), reused 275 (delta 148) Receiving o....
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Early yesterday evening I saw co-editors Alexia Tsotsis and Eric Eldon post an apology for an alleged inappropriate presentation made at TechCrunch Disrupt. Dismissing the short article as a response to yet another activist blowing an innocuous joke way out of proportion though, I paid it little attention until coming across Gawker’s coverage of the event later that evening. Like an article taken directly from The Onion’s homepage, I re..
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Continuing on from yesterday , I’ve met even more interesting people. I chatted with Dianne Mueller about some interesting ideas for gluster+ openshift . More to come on that front soon. Hung out with Jono Bacon and talked a bit about puppet-gluster on Ubuntu . If there is interest in the community for this, please let me know. Thanks to John Mark Walker and RedHat for sponsoring me and introducing me to many of these folks. Hello to..
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Continuing on from yesterday , I’ve met even more interesting people. I chatted with Dianne Mueller about some interesting ideas for gluster+ openshift . More to come on that front soon. Hung out with Jono Bacon and talked a bit about puppet-gluster on Ubuntu . If there is interest in the community for this, please let me know. Thanks to John Mark Walker and RedHat for sponsoring me and introducing me to many of these folks. Hello to..
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I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks. I’ve met gluster hacker Theron Conrey , and my host John Mark Walker , Fedora and Raspberry Pi experts Spot and Ruth Suehle , and many others too. The hotel is very nice. The bathroom sink has two taps of course, but both of them are hot. The New Orleans heat is probably the cause of this. I’m hacking at full speed to get som..
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I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks. I’ve met gluster hacker Theron Conrey , and my host John Mark Walker , Fedora and Raspberry Pi experts Spot and Ruth Suehle , and many others too. The hotel is very nice. The bathroom sink has two taps of course, but both of them are hot. The New Orleans heat is probably the cause of this. I’m hacking at full speed to get som..
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My introduction to this article, and the piece I personally found more interesting, was the response Casey Liss wrote . As I read both articles, I thought of something Patrick McKenzie said quite some time ago in Don’t Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice : “You radically overestimate the average skill of the competition because of the crowd you hang around with.” While Patrick said that in reference to the perception of ..
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When Matt Gemmell publishes his novel, I will buy it regardless of the genre. With talent like this, how could I afford to miss it? Permalink.
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Craig Hockenberry making a very apropos comparison between the Mercedes-Benz S-Class line and Apple’s iPhone 5S. Perhaps just as interesting as his thoughts on the iPhone, however, were his thoughts on this particular vehicular product line, however brief. I always find a writer traditionally steeped in technology taking a step in to the world of cars disproportionately fascinating. That meticulous nature, attention to detail, and, most i..
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Just before the iPhone event last week, I linked to an excellent piece by Ben Thompson titled Thinking About iPhone Pricing . A day after the event, he posted another article, Two Minutes, Fifty-Six Seconds , this time explaining Apple’s reasoning behind pricing the 5C at $549. I really enjoyed both articles; Ben Thompson’s intelligence, insight, and storytelling ability is only rivaled by a few. Permalink.
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In order to smoke test web applications, I like to run-to-end smoke tests that start the web server and drives a web browser to interact with the application. Here is how this may look: public class BookingWebTest { private DataSource dataSource; private Server server; @Before public void createServer() throws Exception { dataSource = DataSources.getTestDataSource(); new EnvEntry("jdbc/applicationDs", dataSource); server = new Server(0); se..
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