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September 2008 - Posts

Saturday, September 27, 2008 6:03 PM

Un-PC Reality

One of the things in all the better Leadership training seminars I've been to in my career has been the insistence and dedication to reality. Usually the best strike hard by announcing a string of facts about what is changing that is causing organizational
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:27 AM

On The New Communications of the ACM Redesign

A while ago ACM embarked on an ambitious mission: to change their flagship publication, Communications of the ACM, for Association for Computing Machinery members, in to the JAMA of Computer Science. If this new issue of the re-designed CACM is any indication,
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:26 AM

Tech Trends For Fall Reading: Software Transactional Memory, Cloud Computing Storage, and more

Now that the summer is over – the tech industry is back to work – and the new products and service announcements are coming quick, why not do some good reading to prepare for the fall when everyone returns from vacation and you get back to the serious
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Friday, September 19, 2008 5:35 PM

Goodbye Map Reduce - Hello Cascading

An interesting post from Nathan Marz regarding an abstraction layer from Chris Wensel called Cascading : We have been doing a lot of batch processing with Hadoop MapReduce lately, and we quickly realized how painful it can be to write MapReduce jobs by
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:24 AM

Microsoft Live Mesh on Apple Mac OS X

This is a screenshot of Mesh running on the Silverlight platform on Mac OS X. Pretty neat example of the future. By the way, if your interested in developing for Live Mesh, there are some new videos posted on Microsoft Videos that provide an impressive
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:17 AM

The Rise Of Functional Programming: F#/Scala/Haskell and the failing of Lisp

Over at Lambda The Ultimate, the best academic programming blog on earth, there is a large debate going on regarding what the future of languages will be for 2008. The most important thing to emerge from the discussion is the larger role functional programming
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:33 AM

Thoughts On Google's Conference on Scalability In Seattle

If you are looking for a good collection of notes regarding the topics covered at the Seattle Conference on Scalability , you can do no better than what James Hamilton put together . Instead, I'll write a quick commentary on what I experienced. Scalability
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