Monthly Archives: October 2007

Google Code for Educators – University of Washington: Problem Solving on Large Scale Clusters Five lectures designed to be used with Hadoop (tags: distributed google mapreduce lectures open courseware hadoop) Google Code for Educators – Google: Cluster Computing and MapReduce … Continue reading →

Suspend to RAM on the Dell D820, proprietary NVIDIA drivers under Ubuntu Gutsy Phew, the changes here were all I needed to get suspend working properly under Ubuntu (tags: ubuntu dell suspend fix)

mjt Mjt is an HTML templating engine that runs entirely in a web browser. It was built for the Freebase service, and is particularly useful with services that return JSON values and accept a callback= parameter. (tags: freebase javascript templating … Continue reading →

Tetris … the truth about the Semantic Web (My tags are semweb humour – not enough of that about) (tags: semweb humour)

Luis Villa’s Blog / evaluating a Free/Open Service Definition (rough draft) A rough draft of a framework for evaluating an Open Service Definition, if it were to be created (tags: open freedom definition service saas) Paul Miller on the Web … Continue reading →

Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective Describes implementation of a failt-tolerent database at Google, using Paxos algorithm (tags: google paxos distributed systems consensus) A Paxon Evaluation of P2 Some results for the performance of paxos in an overlay network … Continue reading →

aaronland.info – nytimes widgets Lots of juicy extracts of the NYT’s rich metadata (tags: rdf metadata new york times news)