Meditation: Why Bother?
And just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life which simply will not go away. You can suppress it from your awareness for a...
View ArticleSummary of use cases for non-relational storage
To understand why NoSQL is important to you as an app developer, let’s consider the use cases for some of these features: Frequently-written, rarely read statistical data (for example, a web hit...
View ArticleRegular Expression to check for primes
perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' [number] via montreal.pm.org This is a nice trick to check if a number is prime using regular expressions, I am going to try and see how...
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SSMS Addins - Object Finder - DataScripter
via ssmsaddins.codeplex.com While searching yet again for the SQL to find a particular piece of text inside SQL server proc definitions I came across this cool Addin project that does exactly that and...
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Beginner's Guide to Linkers
via lurklurk.org Well written article on the role of Linkers, covers *nix and Windows systems. Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleHigh Scalability - High Scalability - Pomegranate - Storing Billions and...
Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It's targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in...
View ArticleScott Adams Blog: The Illusion of Winning 08/30/2010
Let's say that you and I decide to play pool. We agree to play eight-ball, best of five games. Our perception is that what follows is a contest to see who will do something called winning.But I don't...
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ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack - igvita.com
Berkeley Sockets (BSD) are the de facto API for all network communication. With roots from the early 1980's, it is the original implementation of the TCP/IP suite, and arguably one of the most widely...
View ArticleKeyboard shortcut for Sniping Tool
Windows Vista introduced the “Sniping Tool” which removed the need for me to install a third-party screen capture tool (Gadwin PrintScreen was the one that I was using). However I never really thought...
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Google Chrome - Extensions run in separate processes too
At some level I knew that extensions for Google Chrome ran in separate processes too, but I never really gave it a lot of thought till I was in process explorer today and saw a bunch of chrome.exe...
View ArticleGoogle Static Maps API - Google Code
The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL...
View ArticleSPTH 'Taking the redpill: Artificial Evolution in native x86 systems' (VX...
1.1.1. CoreWorld Artificial evolution for self-replicating computer codes has been introduced for the first time in 1990, when Steen Rasmussen created CoreWorld.[1] CoreWorld is a virtual machine which...
View ArticleMicrosoft shifting to HTML5 as primary cross-platform runtime
But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me. Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform...
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The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. « Steve Blank
When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a...
View ArticleIndiangeek featured as a resource for online computer science students
I got an email today that my primary website Indiangeek.net is being featured as a resource for students of online computer science courses. Check it out at...
View ArticleOracle to start charging for MySQL - Standard edition @ 2000 USD
MySQL Editions MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast growing web property, technology ISV or large enterprise, MySQL can cost-effectively help you deliver high...
View ArticleUbuntu Install Experience
Last week I decided to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my wife’s 4 year old laptop as a primary operating system. My last experience installing Linux as the primary operating system was from the early Red Hat...
View ArticleYouthful Arrogance
In 2000 when I had just started my master's degree I had already been programming in C/C++ and VB for some years prior, mostly simple LoB apps for my dad's business and some other telecom programs...
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Spoon Application Virtualization Technology
Spoon uses proprietary app virtualization technology to allow streamed apps to execute instantly in an isolated environment on any Windows desktop. Unlike hardware virtualization solutions such as...
View ArticleCalling a web service from SQL Server
Recently I had to call a web service from SQL Server for integrating with a phone system that only allowed interaction with third-party systems via a database. It seemed straightforward enough given...
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