My soup

Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:55:56 GMT

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...

Photographer Uses Soda Can Camera to Capture 6 Month Long Exposure

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:45:07 GMT

Gear Diary

Shared by schvin
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...

Guest blog post from Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO of Aptela We posted a case study today on...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:08:00 GMT

Couchio

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...

Harold

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:50:42 GMT

Abstruse Goose

summer dog days http://flic.kr/p/8mh1ga

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:27:51 GMT

summer dog days http://flic.kr/p/8mh1ga

summer dog days

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:27:48 GMT

summer dog days

Alaska's Mt. Mckinley

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:25:25 GMT

Uploads from Nate Kay

Nate Kay posted a photo:

Taken from the pilot's seat at FL250.

STM, CouchDB, and pushing 5500 docs/sec

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:02:00 GMT

dosync

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...

The Georgetown Metropolis

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:48 GMT

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Montrose Park

not something i usually get to pass on the freeway . . . http://flic.kr/p/8m43NA

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:42 GMT

not something i usually get to pass on the freeway . . . http://flic.kr/p/8m43NA

not something i usually get to pass on the freeway . . .

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:37:19 GMT

not something i usually get to pass on the freeway . . .

RT @Couchio: Check out our new case study on the TweetMy311 app by @mheadd ww...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:57:50 GMT

RT @Couchio: Check out our new case study on the TweetMy311 app by @mheadd www.couch.io/... as well as his guest blog post at http ...

And it all gets expensive fast.

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:35:25 GMT

Indexed

How To Sell Apps?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:21:58 GMT

ongoing by Tim Bray

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

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:46:09 GMT

Information Is Beautiful

Shared by schvin
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...

1996

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT

xkcd.com

[c2k10] Preparation - Portable Systems (Part 2)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:29:54 GMT

OpenBSD Journal

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can't knock that! "We're actually a hiking club with a software development problem."

Tadpole UltraSPARC

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...

iphone firmwares

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:51:08 GMT

http://www.iphoneheat.com/2009/03/download-iphone-firmware-files-all-at-one-place/

easy to forget how much a quick tune-up helps smooth out your summer bicycle ...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:50:00 GMT

easy to forget how much a quick tune-up helps smooth out your summer bicycle rides. newish lighter mavics via craigslist, tires, and brakes.

weird, "green cleaning" flourescent light lit late at cupid cleaners... what'...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:08:56 GMT

weird, "green cleaning" flourescent light lit late at cupid cleaners... what's green about that?

July 2010: The End of the Beginning for DNSSEC

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:07:00 GMT

CircleID

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...

RT @CalBike: Car-free living from a community invisible to mainstream bike ad...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:46:39 GMT

RT @CalBike: Car-free living from a community invisible to mainstream bike advocacy. Don't miss the really inspiring video. http://bit.l ...

RT @symmetricalism: pet peeve of the day: designers/programmers too lazy to d...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:12:57 GMT

RT @symmetricalism: pet peeve of the day: designers/programmers too lazy to do (... == 1 ? "" : "s") and end up displaying something lik ...

Velocity: TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:04 GMT

High Performance Web Sites

Shared by schvin
thanks warren.

John Rauser (Amazon) was my favorite speaker at Velocity. His keynote on Creating Cultural Change was great. I recommend you watch the video.

John did another session that was longer and more technical entitled TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance. Unfortunately this wasn’t scheduled in the videotape room. But yesterday Mike Bailey contacted me saying he ...

white stripes wednesday

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:35:53 GMT

white stripes wednesday

Photo

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:19:42 GMT

Razors on her tongue, a body full of oxygen

All welcome ZFS v15 in FreeBSD

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:01:00 GMT

Planet FreeBSD

As announced before, ZFS v15 was successfuly imported into FreeBSD! For a time there was an option of importing just v15 or proceeding directly to v16 but the community has decided to first import the older version for reasons of stability and compatib...

Colorado

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:35:59 GMT

Uploads from Nate Kay

Nate Kay posted a photo:

While driving just north of Denver around sunset, I saw this and stopped next to the interstate and snapped a few shots. Looks great large.

boolean hair logic

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:15:47 GMT

Toothpaste For Dinner

willpower paradox, an interesting article. thanks, sRp. http://www.scientific...

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:46:05 GMT

willpower paradox, an interesting article. thanks, sRp. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-willpower-paradox

all tuckered out http://flic.kr/p/8h6DvP

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:26:48 GMT

all tuckered out http://flic.kr/p/8h6DvP

all tuckered out

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:26:45 GMT

all tuckered out

Are we expensive?

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:00:23 GMT

GRIFFIN MARKET Daily Menu

Are We expensive?

I would like you, our friends and customers, to know hard facts and numbers. We compared our products to similar products same sizes at Safeway.

Here are some examples of products that are carried at Safeway based on prices obtained from Safeway.com:

- Vodka pasta Sauce 24 oz. Safeway price $9.89 our price $7.50
- Balsamic Vinegar from Modena 8.5 oz. Safeway price 15.39$ our...

It’s Faster Because It’s C

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:23:47 GMT

Canned Platypus

I was recently drawn into another discussion about a claim that project Foo was faster than project Bar because Foo is written in C (or maybe C++) and Bar is written in Java. In my experience, as a long-time kernel programmer and as someone who often codes in C even when there are almost certainly better choices, such claims are practically always false. The speed at which a particular piece ...

charlie is driving / first half mile, four wheel slide / no arrest made yet

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:15:49 GMT

charlie is driving / first half mile, four wheel slide / no arrest made yet

Cisco releases new tablet called Cisco Home Energy Controller for smart home market

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:48:03 GMT

Asterisk VoIP News

Tablets or just gadgets in the broad sense that do our work is finally coming close to being a reality especially with the Cisco tablet that has been released recently. Seated at just one single area of the house, the tablet provides the user with complete control of all the other utility items in the house.

Named the Cisco Home Energy Controller, the tablet is an even more specialized...

Dear apple, what the Dock?

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:16:34 GMT

Retina Technology Blog

Apple’s new iPhone4 has created quite a stir, even though consumers are paying slightly more for the same phone with a slightly better display, dual (improved) cameras, and flash. I’m sure by now you know about the antenna problems and the lame way that apple chose to fix it, but I wanted one of these wonderful gadgets, so I signed up on the reservation list and finally got my email...

Thanks buddy.

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:40:14 GMT

certified bullshit technician.

Thanks buddy.

pitbull pie at lost dog cafe may be the best pizza ever.

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:51:42 GMT

pitbull pie at lost dog cafe may be the best pizza ever.

RT @jeisensc: Are You Still Using Your Real Credit Card Online? You Shouldn’...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:50:12 GMT

RT @jeisensc: Are You Still Using Your Real Credit Card Online? You Shouldn’t. http://j.mp/cSQ9MW #fb