- Law of Success 2.0 -- a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller.
- Pioneer One -- crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent.
- DrasticTools -- PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and animated list. (via TomC on Delicious)
- GoogleCL -- command-line interface to Google services. At the moment the services are Picasa, …
Jun
21
2010
Jun
19
2010
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I am writing this blog post with Vim, my favorite editor,
instead of using the online editor offered by blogger. And I
am uploading this post to my Blogger account using Google
CL a tool that lets you use Google services from the
command line. I am a command line geek, and as soon as I saw the announcement, I installed it in my laptop. The mere fact that you are reading this blog post shows that it works. |
GoogleCL is an apparently simple application. If you install it
on Mac using macports you realize how many dependencies it has
and how much complexity it gives under the …
May
25
2010
What’s missing from WebM? VoltDB launches. The importance of profitability. And more.
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Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
# Simon Phipps examined what’s missing from WebM, from an open source perspective.
# Mike Stonebraker’s VoltDB officially launched its open source in-memory OLTP database.
# Jim Whitehurst argued that one of Red Hat’s most valuable contributions to open source is its profitability.
# Infobright appointed former Aleri CEO Don DeLoach as its new …
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Apr
27
2010
VMware and Salesforce.com launch VMforce. Red Hat provides Cloud Access. And more.
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to.”
# VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a platform for developing and deploying Java cloud applications.
# Red Hat Cloud Access enables enterprises to use their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription on Amazon Web Services.
# Canonical announced Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition, Desktop Edition and ISV support.
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Apr
16
2010
Oracle outlines MySQL plans. Datameer launches with Series A funding. And more.
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to.”
# Oracle confirmed InnoDB as the default MySQL storage engine, Hot Backup to become part of MySQL Enterprise and announced MySQL Cluster 7.1.
# Datameer launched Analytics Solution, which combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, and also closed a $2.5m Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.
# Infobright announced that it grew its customers base from 50 to …
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Apr
15
2010
Been asked a few times in the last few days about where my slides are from my MySQL keynote from *last* year.
Ooops.
Um, yeah. Sorry about that. Here’s a link to ‘The SmugMug Tale’ slides, and you can watch the video below:
Sorry for the extreme lag. I suck.
The important highlights go something like this:
- Use transactional replication. Without it, you’re dead in the water. You have no idea where a crashed slave was.
- Use a …
Mar
09
2010
After a good while (I can’t search my Twitter stream) on Chrome I’m switching back to Firefox as my primary browser, and actually uninstalled Chrome. Why? I was getting the “Oh snap” failure page all the time, even on Google’s own Youtube! The only support I was pointed to was this page, and when I followed the instructions there when I restarted Chrome everything was gone. The sentence “copy the relevant files from the “Backup User Data” folder to your new “User Data” folder.” is useless when you consider the folder has 50+ files to sort through and I wasn’t sure which one was causing my previous problems. So back to Firefox, and thanks to Xmarks all of my stuff is there. …
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Feb
19
2010
Topics for this podcast:
*Jacobsen v. Katzer and open source impact
*Intel, Nokia team up for MeeGo open source OS
*Open source continues in embedded space
*MongoDB and the advent of the NoSQL databases
*Copyrights, complexities, control and conflict
iTunes or direct download (21:48, 6.07 MB)
Feb
09
2010
Ken Jacobs departs Oracle. Linus loves his Nexus One. And more.
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to.”
# As Matt Asay noted, Ken Jacobs’ departure from Oracle is a significant loss for MySQL.
# Linus Toravlds gave the Nexus One his personal thumbs-up.
# Glyn Moody outlined the H.264 video standards debate.
# Oracle job cuts affect GNOME accessibility work but, as Joe Brockmeier pointed out, the blame lies with everyone.
# SourceForge project administrators …
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Feb
05
2010
Topics for this podcast:
*Matt Asay moves from Alfresco to Canonical
*GPL fade fuels heated discussion
*Apple’s iPad and its enterprise and open source impact
*Open source in data warehousing and storage
*Our perspective on Oracle’s plans for Sun open source
iTunes or direct download (32:50, 9.2 MB)