Category Archives: code
Processing… Processing
Like most people I’ve been bitten by the “social networks take up all my blogging time” bug. But in reality, I think that’s OK. I once read someone who said SMS is becoming the polite way of conversing, as opposed … Continue reading
Posted in code, visualization
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Skinned Programming Paradigms
Here’s a free thought for you. How much of people choice in programming languages is really syntax dependent? For example, I dislike Java (I hate it for other reasons) simply because of the verbosity of ‘System.out.println’ and don’t really understand … Continue reading
Posted in code, frustration, inspiration
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Cloudera’s Hadoop Education
A while back, after Cloudera released their lectures and VMware image for Hadoop, I watched the training sessions and worked through some of the initial exercises. I must say I was a little disappointed by the videos but I believe … Continue reading
Posted in code, mapreduce, opensource, python
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CouchDB Performance – Too much TCP
It’s been a while since I ran my CouchDB performance test, but many of the comments I received suggested that updating my codebase should yield some significant performance improvements. Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t have spare cycles to invest … Continue reading
A simple twitter library in python
I’ve been working on a project built on Google App Engine and I’m relying on twitter to mediate some of the interaction with my end users. What I find great about the growing prevalence of social interfaces is that I … Continue reading
Posted in code, python
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CouchDB Performance or Use a File
If this is the first post you’ve read from my blog you should probably go check some others and assert for yourself that I’m a big fan of couchDB. Even if it wasn’t easy to be impressed by Damon Katz’s, … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb, python
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Could a couchdb guru explain this, please?
I’m in the process of trying to build (and benchmarking) a couchdb project and I decided to use some word count & frequency samples as data. Since “word count” and “grep” are the quintessential map/reduce examples I thought this would … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb, frustration
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How to build Couchdb on Dreamhost
As you know from many of my entries I’m a big fan of couchdb, and if you’re interested you should really be following janl, jchris and lethain as they push this technology forward. As you might also guess from my … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb
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Building CouchDB
This is a quick technical post for posterity, if you’re not interested I won’t be offended if you leave now. I’m working to try to get couchdb on my hosting provider, Dreamhost. They’ve been a great service for me so … Continue reading
twitterline
I’ve been using a lot of python, jQuery and web services recently and thought it was time to pull together those skills into a public app. Like most developers, I often “scratch my own itch” and write code to solve … Continue reading
Posted in code, python, twitter, visualization
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