October 2010
17 posts
RT @creationix: Good read to understand why blocking I/O is so expensive: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does-w …
Superman's Fortress of Solitude in Mexico →
Photograph by Javier Trueba This is certainly old news to the geologists in our midst, but I couldn’t believe my eyes watching this BBC video clip of Professor Iain Stewart exploring the…
Backbone.js →
Backbone.js. As should be expected for a DocumentCloud project, Backbone is a concise, elegant and educational take on the JavaScript MVC pattern. Depends on Underscore.js and plays well with…
Blog: How to Setup Dependencies Aware Maven... →
Lypie, proposé par Bertille
Lypie, proposé par Bertille →
Lypie, proposé par Bertille
Google pulls an Asimov, announces self-driving... →
“So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun nonchalantly announced on the company’s blog earlier this afternoon.
Thrun, who is the…
"Last I heard Google's search index was... →
“Last I heard Google’s search index was sharded by document rather than by term.”. Fascinating comment by jasonwatkinspdx on Hacker News.
[from nicolassteinmetz] JazzRecord is ActiveRecord... →
ActiveRecord is a popular object-relational mapping layer for Ruby that provides an easy means for dealing with database tables, complex relationships between data models, and error validation. It’s…
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Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech... →
Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or Sun Microsystems. But Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running them part of its core…
newsycombinator: IE6 effect in HTML5... →
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Microsoft, Adobe execs discuss Apple, potential... →
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and other company top brass recently held a meeting with those in charge of Adobe to discuss a number of topics, including a partnership or even a merger to…
RT @rhauch: @al3x Maybe the JDK 7 release date keeps changing because java.util.Date is mutable?
London: AWS Tech Summit for Developers and... →
We’re inviting all developers and architects to join us for a special event in London focussing on development, testing and architectural best practices in the cloud.
When and where?
Tuesday 9th…
Golden Hammer →