--- title: links for 2009-11-05 date: 2009-11-06T01:03:19Z modified: 2009-11-06T01:03:19Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/05/links-for-2009-11-05/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 3116 categories: - Links timestamp: 2009-11-06T01:03:19Z tags: - Links --- - [Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)](http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/hadoop-pig-and-twitter-nosql-east-2009) from a Twitter employee, no less. (tags: [hadoop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hadoop) [pig](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pig) [twitter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/twitter) [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [mapreduce](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mapreduce) [bigdata](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bigdata) [statistics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/statistics) [analytics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/analytics)) - [Harald Welte's blog](http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/11/04/#20091104-android_mythbusters) someone doesn't like Android very much (tags: [android](http://delicious.com/sogrady/android) [haraldwelte](http://delicious.com/sogrady/haraldwelte) [linux](http://delicious.com/sogrady/linux) [kernel](http://delicious.com/sogrady/kernel) [criticism](http://delicious.com/sogrady/criticism) [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google)) - [litl webbook: some technical comments « Lucas Rocha](http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2009/11/04/litl-webbook-some-technical-comments/) the technologies that went into litl – lots of clutter, not surprisingly. javascript too. (tags: [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [web](http://delicious.com/sogrady/web) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile) [startup](http://delicious.com/sogrady/startup) [laptop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/laptop) [clutter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/clutter) [javascript](http://delicious.com/sogrady/javascript)) - [Personal data warehouse · Nat Friedman](http://nat.org/blog/2009/10/personal-data-warehouse/) i could not agree more. i want to be able to store, mine, and use my own data with reasonable performance and tools. democratization of BI, remember. (tags: [personal](http://delicious.com/sogrady/personal) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data) [warehouse](http://delicious.com/sogrady/warehouse) [backup](http://delicious.com/sogrady/backup) [ideas](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ideas) [projects](http://delicious.com/sogrady/projects)) - [Downeaster "Modified Express Trains" To Be Evaluated](http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineHeadlineNews/tabid/968/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3479/ItemId/9550/Default.aspx) yes please (tags: [downeaster](http://delicious.com/sogrady/downeaster) [train](http://delicious.com/sogrady/train) [rail](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rail) [travel](http://delicious.com/sogrady/travel) [portland](http://delicious.com/sogrady/portland) [maine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/maine)) - [EETimes.com – Qualcomm creates open source software group](http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900556&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS) good decision on their part. now let's see how they execute and engage. (tags: [qualcomm](http://delicious.com/sogrady/qualcomm) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile)) - [It’s Official. Google Wave to Get Its Own App Store (with potentially more than just apps)](http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/10/27/google-wave-app-store/) "“We’ll almost certainly build a store…So many developers have asked us to build a marketplace—and we might do a revenue-sharing arrangement.” – i told you people marketplaces were coming (tags: [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [wave](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wave) [appstore](http://delicious.com/sogrady/appstore) [businessmodels](http://delicious.com/sogrady/businessmodels) [marketplaces](http://delicious.com/sogrady/marketplaces)) - [The Scale-Out Blog: Replicating from MySQL to Drizzle and Beyond](http://scale-out-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/replicating-from-mysql-to-drizzle-and.html) "Drizzle is one of the really great pieces of technology to emerge from the MySQL diaspora–a lightweight, scalable, and pluggable database for web applications. I am therefore delighted that Marcus Erikkson has published a patch to Tungsten that allows replication from MySQL to Drizzle. He's also working on implementing Drizzle-to-Drizzle support, which will be very exciting." – very cool (tags: [tungsten](http://delicious.com/sogrady/tungsten) [replication](http://delicious.com/sogrady/replication) [drizzle](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drizzle) [scaleout](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaleout) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql)) - [Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts – Drizzle, InfiniDB, Column Oriented Storage](http://krow.livejournal.com/675706.html) a potential solution for column oriented storage, as described by Brian (tags: [brianaker](http://delicious.com/sogrady/brianaker) [drizzle](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drizzle) [infinidb](http://delicious.com/sogrady/infinidb) [columnoriented](http://delicious.com/sogrady/columnoriented) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql)) - [Heroku vs EngineYard Cloud vs Joyent – blog.eliotsykes.com](http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2009/10/30/heroku-vs-engineyard-cloud-vs-joyent/) interesting look at some of the specialized cloud hosting options from a user's perspective (tags: [heroku](http://delicious.com/sogrady/heroku) [engineyard](http://delicious.com/sogrady/engineyard) [joyent](http://delicious.com/sogrady/joyent) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [user](http://delicious.com/sogrady/user) [feedback](http://delicious.com/sogrady/feedback)) - [Google privacy controls: Most people won't care | The Open Road – CNET News](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10390456-16.html?tag=mncol;title) i concur: there is little evidence to suggest otherwise (tags: [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [privacy](http://delicious.com/sogrady/privacy) [concerns](http://delicious.com/sogrady/concerns) [mattasay](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mattasay)) - [Talking to DC « Adam Bosworth’s Weblog](http://adambosworth.net/2009/10/29/talking-to-dc/) Adam Bosworth on the standards process and its lessons. must read. (tags: [adambosworth](http://delicious.com/sogrady/adambosworth) [standards](http://delicious.com/sogrady/standards) [design](http://delicious.com/sogrady/design) [architecture](http://delicious.com/sogrady/architecture)) - [The Silent Number: Top things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala](http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/top-things-to-do-after-installing.html) very useful summary of post-installation tweaks, apps, and more for Ubuntu Karmic users (tags: [karmic](http://delicious.com/sogrady/karmic) [ubuntu](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ubuntu) [gnome](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gnome) [howto](http://delicious.com/sogrady/howto) [9.10](http://delicious.com/sogrady/9.10) [tutorial](http://delicious.com/sogrady/tutorial) [setup](http://delicious.com/sogrady/setup) [tips](http://delicious.com/sogrady/tips)) - [Windows Azure : Windows Azure Platform Launch Update](http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/10/29/windows-azure-platform-launch-update.aspx) an update on the Azure platform launch (tags: [windows](http://delicious.com/sogrady/windows) [azure](http://delicious.com/sogrady/azure) [microsoft](http://delicious.com/sogrady/microsoft) [cloudcomputing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloudcomputing)) - [NoSQL Misconceptions | Viget Extend](http://www.viget.com/extend/nosql-misconceptions/) just what it says (tags: [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [design](http://delicious.com/sogrady/design) [expectations](http://delicious.com/sogrady/expectations)) - [Guest Post: Yahoo's Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server](http://ostatic.com/blog/guest-post-yahoos-cloud-team-open-sources-traffic-server) interesting new contribution to open source: load balancing and more. (tags: [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [apache](http://delicious.com/sogrady/apache) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [yahoo](http://delicious.com/sogrady/yahoo) [traffic](http://delicious.com/sogrady/traffic) [trafficserver](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trafficserver) [loadbalancer](http://delicious.com/sogrady/loadbalancer)) - [How Thinking Goes Wrong](http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/sherm3.htm) love this piece. 25 things that lead us away from rational thought. (tags: [rational](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rational) [thought](http://delicious.com/sogrady/thought) [criticalthinking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/criticalthinking) [skepticism](http://delicious.com/sogrady/skepticism) [religion](http://delicious.com/sogrady/religion) [logic](http://delicious.com/sogrady/logic) [philosophy](http://delicious.com/sogrady/philosophy)) - [Collective Competency – The Underlying Trend Driving Open Source](http://blogs.gartner.com/brian_prentice/2009/10/25/collective-competency-the-underlying-trend-driving-open-source/) not sure that i love the term. my primary difficulty is that it attempts to apply a core business management concept on an endeavor that is, at best, only partially a business. much is lost in translation. is multi-entity collaboration transformative in terms of its shared asset ownership and investments? sure. is it a "collective competency?" i'm not sure. (tags: [collectivecompetency](http://delicious.com/sogrady/collectivecompetency) [gartner](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gartner) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource)) - [Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com](http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1424) heard this one before. if i get time, i'll comment, but until then read Dennis' take. (tags: [gartner](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gartner) [magicquadrant](http://delicious.com/sogrady/magicquadrant) [dennishowlett](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dennishowlett) [oversight](http://delicious.com/sogrady/oversight) [marketing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/marketing) [blogs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/blogs) [ethics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ethics)) - [Art Beat | 35 Years of Austin City Limits | Online NewsHour | PBS](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/tuesday-on-the-newshour-austin-city-limits.html) summary of the ACL shows, including Pearl Jam sets. awesome. (tags: [acl](http://delicious.com/sogrady/acl) [austincitylimits](http://delicious.com/sogrady/austincitylimits) [music](http://delicious.com/sogrady/music) [pearljam](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pearljam)) - [I like Unicorn because it's Unix](http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix) another must read piece from Ryan. as usual. (tags: [ryantomayko](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ryantomayko) [unix](http://delicious.com/sogrady/unix) [coding](http://delicious.com/sogrady/coding) [sockets](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sockets) [posix](http://delicious.com/sogrady/posix) [unicorn](http://delicious.com/sogrady/unicorn) [threads](http://delicious.com/sogrady/threads)) - [Git Magic](http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/book.html) good work on git and its capabilities (tags: [git](http://delicious.com/sogrady/git) [howto](http://delicious.com/sogrady/howto) [documentation](http://delicious.com/sogrady/documentation) [dscm](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dscm)) - [A Deluge is Underway; is Email Waterproof? :: Return Path Blog](http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2009/10/a-deluge-is-underway-is-email.php) a look at Raindrop and Wave. i'll have more on them shortly, but i think we need to think more broadly to understand where collaboration is going. (tags: [collaboration](http://delicious.com/sogrady/collaboration) [raindrop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/raindrop) [wave](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wave) [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [mozilla](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mozilla)) - [Avro: a Format for Big Data » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog](http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/11/02/avro-a-format-for-big-data/) Doug Cutting on a format for tackling big data (tags: [cloudera](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloudera) [dougcutting](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dougcutting) [avro](http://delicious.com/sogrady/avro) [bigdata](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bigdata) [megadata](http://delicious.com/sogrady/megadata) [hadoop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hadoop)) - [Flameeyes's Weblog : Distributions \*are\* the strength of Linux](http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/11/05/distributions-are-the-strength-of-linux) interesting take on diversity as a strength, rather than weakness, of the Linux community (tags: [ecosystems](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ecosystems) [linux](http://delicious.com/sogrady/linux) [distributions](http://delicious.com/sogrady/distributions) [diversity](http://delicious.com/sogrady/diversity))