Notes by Patrice Neff

Introducing Avout: Distributed State in Clojure

Nov 30, 2011 - clojure.com - Today we are releasing Avout, which brings Clojure's in-memory model of state to distributed application development by providing a distributed implementation of Clojure's Multiversion Concurrency

mnot’s blog: Linking in JSON

Nov 30, 2011 - mnot.net - Friday, 25 November 2011 To be a full-fledged format on the Web, you need to support links -- something sorely missing in JSON, which many have noticed lately. In fact, too many; everybody seems to be

xtend - Java replacement by the Eclipse team

Nov 7, 2011 - eclipse.org - A language made for Java developers. Java is a great platform and also the language has some nice features. Xtend is not meant to replace Java all together but to be a convenient alternative in

Mneme: Scalable Duplicate Filtering Service - igvita.com

Nov 4, 2011 - igvita.com - Detecting and dealing with duplicates is a common problem: sometimes we want to avoid performing an operation based on this knowledge, and at other times, like in a case of a database,

Storm

Sep 21, 2011 - github.com - Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime

Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial

Aug 25, 2011 - lists.canonical.org

Learn to code

Aug 22, 2011 - codecademy.com - Codecademy Learning with Codecademy will put you on the path to building great websites, games, and apps. Keep tabs on your friends' progress and make sure you're learning more - faster! Start

Introduction to Databases - Stanford University

Aug 16, 2011 - db-class.org - A bold experiment in distributed education, "Introduction to Databases" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. Students will have access to lecture videos,

Spritebaker - Ridiculous easy Base64 encoding for Designers

Jul 20, 2011 - stylebaker.com - A free tool for designers and web developers. It parses your css and returns a copy with all external media "baked" right into it as Base64 encoded datasets. The number of time consuming http-requests

Google-Wide Profiling

Jul 4, 2011 - G OOGLE -W IDE P ROFILING (GWP), A CONTINUOUS PROFILING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DATA CENTERS , PROVIDES PERFORMANCE INSIGHTS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS . W ITH NEGLIGIBLE OVERHEAD , GWP PROVIDES STABLE ,