Monthly Archives: June 2007

Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Scaling Google for Every User Some interesting insights into query rewriting based on statistical inference of likely goals (tags: google scaling search usability assistive personalisation) Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Lessons in Building Scalable Systems … Continue reading →

Interview: Dopplr Lead Developer, Matt Biddulph | acidlabs (tags: programming ruby dopplr travel)

Zope Testbrowser Documentation for testbrowser, a python based web testing framework. (tags: testing http html web python)

http://www.webtide.com/downloads/whitePaperAjaxJetty.html web 2.0 applications, specifically those using Ajax, present a traffic profile that cannot be scalably handled using synchronous servlets. This paper introduces the features that have been implemented in the Jetty 6 server to address them (tags: ajax article … Continue reading →

HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST) : Alan Dean Amazing diagram of the decision logic for an HTTP server (tags: http state diagram) New idea: Social Cameras! (Scripting News) Another great idea from Dave Winer (seriously!) (tags: social photography camera)

EC2 and S3 Slides from NextNet meeting Dan Creswell’s presentation (tags: amazon ec2 javaspaces) Designing and Building Parallel Programs Online exapansion of content contained in book of same name (tags: algorithms book distributed parallel programming) A Library of Parallel Algorithms … Continue reading →

Lorenzo Puccetti’s Blog: Why is javaspaces technology not as successful as it should be ? Great comments. Short answer: because it was coupled and overcomplicated by Jini; didn’t fit into the lucrative “enterprise” stack and conceptually is way out there … Continue reading →

Minimal Deductive Systems for RDF A proposal for reduced RDFS with just rdfs:domain, rdfs:range, rdfs:subClassOf, rdfs:subPropertyOf and rdf:type which means rules can be applied to a streaming data stream, if the schema is known, because each rule only refers to … Continue reading →