Monthly Archives: June 2009

Understanding CIDR notation

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Karl

Good guides for those that need a quick dive: Wikipedia: CIDR notation. Terse. Without understanding of IP addressing and subnets worthless. So the following give a better big picture: Cisco: IP Addressing and Subnetting for New Users MediaWiki’s guide to … Continue reading →

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Pain kept me away too

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Karl

Great to hear an acupuncture treatment helped Susie get back to her guitar. Arthritis in the hands is scary. Part of me is thankful my pain stems only from the back. Past few weeks I’ve been getting to my garage … Continue reading →

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Getting Lisp

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Karl

At work props go to Michael Bevilacqua-Linn and his great brown bag on Clojure. I think it helped a few of us not only get exposed to Clojure, but Lisp as well. Here are some great starting points for the … Continue reading →

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Blogging dying due to.. Twitter?

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Karl

Jaffe Juice: Blogging is dying and Twitter is to blame Chris Pirillo: Are Personal Home Pages and Blogs Dying? ProBlogger: Blogging vs Twitter Sysan Mernit: Thought-blogging versus twitter/lifestream/community Linux.com: Abandoiung your blog for Twitter As for me, I’m keeping the … Continue reading →

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Links for picking up Python FAST

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Karl

hetland.org: Instant Hacking – very fast introduction to the language and even programming in general. Dive Into Python – Experienced programmer in other languages should choose this. My favorite introduction to Python. The Official Python Tutorial – more thorough starter … Continue reading →

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Reading about Domain-Driven Design

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Karl

InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture – how guardian.co.uk employed DDD in the development of its new CMS and Web management framework. Wikipedia: Domain-Driven Design Related: Comment: On colour-modelling techniques and Archetypal Domain Shape BBC – Radio Labs: How … Continue reading →

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Hive, Hadoop at Facebook, Yahoo

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Karl

Engineering@Facebook: Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop Yahoo! Developer Blog: Announcing the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop

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Drupal, Alfresco and CMIS – some reading and viewing for today

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Karl

Dries Buytaert: Drupal and Alfresco Jeff Potts: Screencast: Alfresco-Drupal CMIS Integration Demo Jared Ottleys: Using Alfresco to manage blog content

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Blogging Apps *are* the new Hello World

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Karl

Read: Ken Robertson: Blogging apps are the new Hello World Example: Disqus: A Django Primer – Creating a Simple Blog Application Example: Sapphire Steel: How To Create a Ruby On Rails Blog – Part One Example: Writing Blogging Software for … Continue reading →

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Reading up on Python for utility scripts

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Karl

Red Hat Magazine: Python for Bash scripters: A well-kept secret IBM Developerworks: Using Python to create UNIX command line tools PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook – Python

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