Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Puppet
Adam Jacobs is a Founder of HJK Solutions which helps startups build stable, scalable, and repeatable infrastructures utilizing open-source tools
one of the tools they use is Puppet.
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AboutPuppet
“Rather than approaching server management by automating current techniques, Puppet reframes the problem by providing a language to express the relationships between servers, the services they provide, and the […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
wikipedia, google and wisdom of crowds are counter intuitive to mammalian brains
some quotes from the long tail on wikipedia, google and wisdom of crowds
Wikipedia-
Like a biological system, it evolves, selecting for traits that help it stay one step ahead of predators and pathogens in its ecosystem.
Paul Graham about google -
“The web naturally has a certain grain, and Google is aligned with. That’s why their success […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Why Chris Anderson is an architect like Linus Torvalds
When I mention “the long tail” to some people - they roll their eyes and go “oh yeah - that book”. When you ask further you realize that they liked the book but think that it was all focused about amazon. This is understandable - since a lot of this book focuses on this […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Why “getData() throws SQLException” is completely pointless
I was working on some java code and as usual oracle was throwing a cryptic error saying “table not found” but not specifying the table name. Its not my code and the code is in a complete mess - I wanted a quick fix, so in the method that is calling preparedStatement.execute() I wrapped […]
