Finished upgrading Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 on main laptop… not too bad of an upgrade.

We’ve been able to get gridgain and grails running together at work recently. Its works out well, though some of the issues we ran into seem weird.  First, putting closures in gridstasks/jobs works...

I  have to say that after playing with Cassandra, a NoSQL datastore, I’m completely impressed with what it gives. Fast read and writes, scale unlike I’ve ever seen, and (fairly) easy to manage. Its...

I spent part of last week upset because I was forced to realize that some vegetarian food is processed with chemicals like hexane. I used to be a chemist, so I understand the process and end result...

Goldman Sachs gets sued by the SEC for fraud, regardless of many Goldman Sachs alumni are work for the government. And this comes up with out a hedge fund manager profited from the housing downturn...

A good diagram showing the insane number of servers google has in visual format.

A good post describing why Apple is killing the 3rd party tools to convert flash/.net/etc apps to iphone apps has been endorsed by Steve Jobs as ‘insightful’. Simply put, Apple is pulling plays fro...

Interesting post about still needing a data model when dealing with non-SQL based datastores. I remember watching a video about using Cassandra and when talking about designing with it, the speaker...

The more I play with Cassandra, the more it seems like an IDMS implementation for micros. Data keys point to files, which have structured methods to look up the data sets faster then in SQL, but th...

We are going to start using Cassandra at work, and in the process, needed to develop a grails plugin. Nothing was available and we wanted to make something generic; so we could use it in multiple p...