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July 29 2010
Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0
The project I founded, Apache CouchDB, recently hit 1.0. I'm very proud :)
It's been a long time, but we finally produced a release that's complete, performs well and is rock solid.
Already CouchDB is on over 10 million machines. It's used by big respected websites (like the BBC) and groundbreaking organizations (Mozilla and Canonical). We run on most *nix, OS X, Windows, and even Android...
July 28 2010
Photographer Uses Soda Can Camera to Capture 6 Month Long Exposure
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way cool find, colin!
Just check out that image, called ‘Solargraph’. It is from the UK, taken of Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge. The lines are the travel of the sun over time, showing the motion of the earth relative to the sun, as well as periods where no sun at all was visible.
According to Wired, photographer Justin Quinnell made the images:
from the simplest of...
July 27 2010
Guest blog post from Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO of Aptela We posted a case study today on...
Guest blog post from Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO of Aptela
We posted a case study today on Aptela, the leading provider of business phone services for small business and mobile workers nationwide, and how they use CouchDB to scale their application. Their CTO Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya worked with us to write a guest blog for us to further explain their use of CouchDB. We really appreciate...
July 26 2010
July 24 2010
STM, CouchDB, and pushing 5500 docs/sec
The more I play around with Clojure and CouchDB the more they seem like they were made for each other. From my earlier post, you might have gotten the impression that CouchDB can't hold its own to MySQL or PostgreSQL in terms of raw write performance in an everyday scenario - calling into a web server, hitting the db, and returning a response. After noodling around some more I came to the...
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July 19 2010
How To Sell Apps?
I’ve been interested recently Android Market; it, and its peers as the App StoreOvi and (in a slightly different flavor Google Marketplace are all recent arrivals, trying to do a new thing. And I don’t think any of them are doing it very well.
(While I work organizationally right next door to the Market people, at themoment I’m not really close to their internal...
Cognitive Surplus visualized
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awesome, thanks warren.
I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.
He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.
Shocking proportion. Interestingly, when I sketched the diagram, my imagination had the...
July 18 2010
[c2k10] Preparation - Portable Systems (Part 2)
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can't knock that! "We're actually a hiking club with a software development problem."
This is the continuation and conclusion of the previous [c2k10] articleof the same title on portable systems and test environments.
Bob Beck (beck@) said, "We're actually a hiking club with asoftware development problem," so you can hopefully grasp howimportant it is to...
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July 16 2010
July 2010: The End of the Beginning for DNSSEC
July 15, 2010 (yesterday) marked the end of the beginning for DNSSEC, as the DNS root was cryptographically signed. For nearly two decades, security researchers, academics and Internet leaders have worked to develop and deploy Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC was developed to improve the overall security of the DNS, a need which was dramatized by the discovery of the...
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