Lacking any good examples of how to use python’s couchdb module, I’ve managed to make pretty impressive progress (for me) on a 4th of July holiday.
I’ll try to recreated it here for others although I know it’ll be incomplete.
Consider it a syntactical example;
import couchdb
s = couchdb.Server(’http://localhost:5984/’) ##why can’t it default to this?
db = s['stock_values']
ids [...]
So I’ve been learning some python and love it! It’s highly functional and most of the libraries are “good enough”.
This morning I recently discovered a bug I introduced when testing… not a bug in the class, but a bug in the way Python works against expectations (even if they are just my own).
Let’s say I [...]
Google recently hosted their I/O conference and, during that, a Google Fellow named Jeff Dean illuminated some of their operational measurements;
A single search query touches 700 to 1,000 machines in less then 0.25 seconds.
They currently have 36 data centers containing over 800,000 servers
with 40 servers/rack.
That’s about 555 racks per datacenter and if a standard 19″ [...]
Working at a large technology company I’m familiar with the “graying” of IT. While often public perspective on “technology” is skewed by the Kevin Rose’s of the world in enterprise situations it’s often much different.
It’s not uncommon to start a job as the only “new hire” around, surrounded by people who’ve been working in their [...]
Every so often, an article on “the elevator pitch” comes along where you’re supposed to present your product in 30 seconds or less… five sentences or less… two eye blinks or less….
I don’t want to add specific examples, because I don’t want to single out any one example, but you’ve certainly seen this advice multiple [...]
I hope those who know me wouldn’t peg me as an alarmist. So take my title with a grain of salt but also, because of that same optimism, with a sense of sobriety.
I’ve followed “cloud computing” for a while (before it was called that), most often in the context of Amazon. From my position, it’s [...]
6 weeks! Wow, yes it’s really been that long since I started reading Programming Collective Intelligence and last posted here.
A lot has happened during that time, my wife got a new job and because of that we moved. We’re both happy about the chance to “evolve” and I think it’s going to enable a lot [...]
Lauren shares two fun twitter tools, which I don’t want to re-describe here but I thought I’d share since visualizations are so much fun!
I’m a big fan of O’Reilly books, as I’m sure most of you are. They’re great technical resources for me and have cute animals my wife can really enjoy!
A friend of mine got Programming Collective Intelligence and recomended it to me, so my mother-in-law gave it to me for my birthday (yay, I’m old!). I’m [...]
Every athlete dreams of two things… (1) making it to “the big dance” and (2) having that magical moment forever immortalized… with an advertising contract.
Admit it, it’s true. Tiger has his own Gatorade now and Anna Kournikova, who apparently needs no subtitle (watch the commercial) is back in a K-Swiss campaign (which I won’t dignify [...]
