--- title: links for 2010-03-04 date: 2010-03-05T01:02:15Z modified: 2010-03-05T01:02:15Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/03/04/links-for-2010-03-04/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 3497 categories: - Links timestamp: 2010-03-05T01:02:15Z tags: - Links --- - [Announcing the Drawn-to-Scale Platform! | Road to Failure](http://www.roadtofailure.com/2010/02/15/announcing-the-drawn-to-scale-platform/) large scale data analytics, indexing and search…as a service. spoke with Bradford a week or two ago, and as i told him, this is an interesting proposition. as more folks realize the need for big data processing, the value of such services only goes up. (tags: [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [databases](http://delicious.com/sogrady/databases) [hadoop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hadoop) [scalability](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scalability) [scaling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaling) [hbase](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hbase) [drawntoscale](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drawntoscale)) - [pmuellr: prior art](http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2010/02/prior-art.html) serving as a fact witness in a patent trial (tags: [patents](http://delicious.com/sogrady/patents) [priorart](http://delicious.com/sogrady/priorart) [technology](http://delicious.com/sogrady/technology) [software](http://delicious.com/sogrady/software) [pmuellr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pmuellr) [factwitness](http://delicious.com/sogrady/factwitness)) - [Introducing WordPress.com User Accounts & Auto-Login to IntenseDebate « IntenseDebate – Official Blog](http://blog.intensedebate.com/2010/03/03/wordpress-auto-login/) this makes IntenseDebate significantly more interesting to me. unfortunately, however, i haven't had any luck configuring the self-hosted WordPress plugin using a WordPress.com identity. (tags: [wordpress](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wordpress) [intensedebate](http://delicious.com/sogrady/intensedebate) [comments](http://delicious.com/sogrady/comments) [automattic](http://delicious.com/sogrady/automattic) [wordpress.com](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wordpress.com)) - [I’ve Joined Automattic](http://themeshaper.com/ian-stewart-joined-automattic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThemeShaper+%28ThemeShaper%29&utm_content=Twitter) the focus on hiring around themes is very welcome. it's been difficult to parse the volume for a while now. (tags: [automattic](http://delicious.com/sogrady/automattic) [wordpress](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wordpress) [themes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/themes) [hiring](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hiring)) - [Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King « MyNoSQL](http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/407159447/cassandra-twitter-an-interview-with-ryan-king) details on Twitter's migration from MySQL to Cassandra (tags: [twitter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/twitter) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [cassandra](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cassandra) [scalability](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scalability)) - [Canned Platypus » Blog Archive » Getting Silly About NoSQL](http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2713) a rebuttal to Forbes' anti-NoSQL rant (tags: [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [dennisforbes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dennisforbes) [sql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sql) [scaling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaling) [scalability](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scalability) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [rdbms](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rdbms)) - [Dennis Forbes on Software and Technology – Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie](http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/Getting_Real_about_NoSQL_and_the_SQL_Isnt_Scalable_Lie) what is essentially an anti-NoSQL rant (tags: [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [dennisforbes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dennisforbes) [sql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sql) [scaling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaling) [scalability](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scalability) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [rdbms](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rdbms)) - [Cloudonomics.com](http://cloudonomics.wordpress.com/) i haven't taken it apart yet, but clearly a lot of work went into the math of cloud computing. worth a read. (tags: [economics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/economics) [math](http://delicious.com/sogrady/math) [cloudcomputing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloudcomputing)) - [Partner with us | blog.infochimps.org](http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/01/26/partner-with-us/) a bit late with this, but if you're in the data space, the Infochimps guys want to talk to you (tags: [infochimps](http://delicious.com/sogrady/infochimps) [partnering](http://delicious.com/sogrady/partnering) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data)) - [Japan Says It Will Ignore A Ban On Bluefin Tuna](http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/japan-says-it-will-ignore-a-ban-on-bluefin-tuna/) this is sad news indeed. most of the data i've seen indicates a severe and accelerating decline in bluefin tuna populations. i personally will not eat bluefin, although it is perhaps the best tasting of the species. (tags: [bluefin](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bluefin) [tuna](http://delicious.com/sogrady/tuna) [fisheries](http://delicious.com/sogrady/fisheries) [japan](http://delicious.com/sogrady/japan) [extinction](http://delicious.com/sogrady/extinction)) - [NoSQL conference coming to Boston – O'Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/nosql-conference-coming-to-bos.html) i'll be at NoSQL Live next week: ping me if you'll be there as well (tags: [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [conferences](http://delicious.com/sogrady/conferences) [boston](http://delicious.com/sogrady/boston) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [trends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trends)) - [Asana – Lunascript](http://www.asana.com/luna) it shouldn't, but it still surprises me when firms – particularly small ones – eschew the advantages of existing languages in favor of a roll-your-own solution (tags: [asana](http://delicious.com/sogrady/asana) [lunascript](http://delicious.com/sogrady/lunascript) [development](http://delicious.com/sogrady/development) [languages](http://delicious.com/sogrady/languages) [programming](http://delicious.com/sogrady/programming)) - [Brand – Ubuntu Wiki](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand) pretty, as i've said before, is a feature, which is why i appreciate the attention to the aesthetics. approve or disapprove of the new designs, the direction is positive. i'll probably end up using the new theme, and the splash is very nice. (tags: [ubuntu](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ubuntu) [brand](http://delicious.com/sogrady/brand) [design](http://delicious.com/sogrady/design) [pretty](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pretty) [aesthetics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/aesthetics)) - [iPhone Development: Android SDK from an iPhone Developer's Perspective](http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/03/android-sdk-from-iphone-developer.html) just what it says. relatively positive review, overall. (tags: [android](http://delicious.com/sogrady/android) [sdk](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sdk) [review](http://delicious.com/sogrady/review) [iphone](http://delicious.com/sogrady/iphone) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile) [development](http://delicious.com/sogrady/development) [eclipse](http://delicious.com/sogrady/eclipse)) - [The Droid. : The dish](http://meadowparty.com/blog/?p=1238) a user review of the Droid from ESPN's Keith Law, a former BlackBerry user (tags: [droid](http://delicious.com/sogrady/droid) [review](http://delicious.com/sogrady/review) [keithlaw](http://delicious.com/sogrady/keithlaw) [android](http://delicious.com/sogrady/android) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile))