Monthly Archives: March 2012

Storm: the Hadoop of Realtime Stream Procesing

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Karl

This presentation was great to get a peek at what Twitter’s Storm was about: YouTube: PyCon US 2012: Gabriel Grant: Related: Twitter Engineering: “A Storm is coming: more details and plans for release” GitHub: Storm

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Thought Provokers From Python’s Guido Van Rossum and Clojure’s Rich Hickey

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Karl

At Strange Loop 2011 Clojure’s Rich Hickey gave a presentation (video) on programming and simplicity that rankled some feathers and triggered a heated discussion at reddit. Duncan McGreggor, decided to contact Python’s Guido Van Rossum to interview him about his … Continue reading →

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The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Karl

Emily Badger in The Atlantic recently wrote about “The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer”. Technically Philly had a conversation with Philadelphia’s Adel Ebeid, Philadelphia’s first Chief Innovation Officer, back in November last year: “There’s this one side of … Continue reading →

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Tor.com re-watches “Total Recall”

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Karl

Tor.com gets at the philosophical core of “Total Recall” in ‘”If I’m Not Me, Then Who The Hell Am I?”: Total Recall’. I need to get around to reading some of Philip K. Dick’s stories.

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Talk: “The Web Browser is a Transitional Technology”

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Karl

Allen Wirfs-Brock, a Mozilla Research Fellow, at YOW 2011, defined what he considers the current era of computing, and some exciting elements of where we are and where we are going in his talk “The Web Browser is a Transitional … Continue reading →

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Al Sweigart: “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Karl

Author of “Invent with Python”, Al Sweigart, makes the case for teaching programming skills while enabling children to accomplish something, like making a game, not as an end in and of itself, in “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”. … Continue reading →

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TOC 2012 Keynote To Watch: “Is SEO Killing America?”

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

TOC 2012: Clay Johnson, “Is SEO Killing America?”: Related: Metafilter thread. The Information Diet

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A Short Bash Shell Scripting Guide To Bookmark

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

All about Linux: “Bash Shell Scripting”. A concise, quick to read and scan guide to shell scripting.

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Using EasyMock

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

Good refreshers: IBM developerWorks: Elliotte Rusty Harold: “Easier testing with EasyMock”. Mocking in Java: jMock vs. EasyMock.

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