October 2007
22 posts
OOPSLA 2007 Podcast →
Oct 31st
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Really nice interview of Joe Armstrong on Erlang...
Part - I Part - II Must watch. The interviewer from Microsoft asks really dumb questions sometimes but there’s Eric Meijer to restore some sense. Eric Meijer is from Microsoft who works on C# and now F#
Oct 31st
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How does BlackBerry Push Email work?
My dad recently asked me as to what’s special about the Blackberry push-email service. I didn’t really have an answer back then. I was researching a bit about it tonight and finally came across a series of nice articles by a Singaporean blogger Paul Mah describing push-email and comparing BlackBerry Push with MSFT’s relatively new Direct Push technology. What is push-email? How...
Oct 30th
FreeDocumentaries.org →
Oct 27th
Doug Hellmann: PyMOTW: itertools →
One more great article from the PyMOTW series!
Oct 21st
jacobian.org : Of the Web →
More praise for CouchDB - this time from Jacob (from Django coreteam).
Oct 20th
Superbad (2007) →
Great movie! Even better than American Pie(s) and way better than 40 year old virgin or Knocked up
Oct 20th
Yahoo! Susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery... →
Demo of a CSRF vulnerability found in yahoo.com
Oct 17th
Ned Batchelder: October 2007 →
This is nasty. HTTP resources cause problems in HTTPS pages.
Oct 17th
PyGPU - Python for the GPU →
PyAwesome!
Oct 13th
pytz - World Timezone Definitions for Python →
Oct 12th
How to Change the World: Ten Questions with Fred... →
Why does it cost $50,000 or more to do a round of financing? WTF! Good interview by Guy Kawasaki
Oct 12th
Hands on MySQL Backup & Migration - igvita.com →
Nice list of all the MySQL backup tools.
Oct 11th
Ipsysctl tutorial 1.0.4 →
HOWTO tweak IPv4 variables in Linux (useful to protect your server against DoS attacks).
Oct 10th
James Gardner » Amazon EC2 Basics For Python... →
Boto - Python wrapper library for the Amazon EC2 API.
Oct 10th
Scalable web architectures » Blog Archive »... →
Oct 10th
DNA - Money - Indian gas pipeline network 6 times... →
Pakistan’s CNG usage seems to be way ahead of India’s!
Oct 10th
IndianExpress.com :: Deal inked, Singapore to use... →
Singapore Air Force will use India’s airbase for training and in exchange Indian AirForce pilots get to use Singapore’s F-16 aircrafts (which are used by Pakistan).
Oct 10th
Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python -... →
Great tutorial!
Oct 9th
Reliance bags marketing & distribution deal for... →
Reliance + Apple in India
Oct 9th
rentzsch.com: apple's antiCAPSLOCK →
Apparently this is intentional. I was about to actually take my Apple keyboard to the Apple Center to get a new one!
Oct 4th
Kosmos Filesystem Release (Kosmix Blog) →
Kosmix releases Kosmos, open-source GFS clone written in C++. It is compatible with Hadoop for Map/Reduce part, and apparently ZEvents.com folks are building HyperTable (a BigTable-clone) which will be compatible with Kosmos.
Oct 1st