Open source coding is like a not-so-demanding mistress: I work on it at night, surreptitiously, after my wife and daughter are asleep. twill and figleaf are like bastard children, who only get attention when I can spare it from my "real" family (my teaching, research or my actual family, depending …
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Anyone out there used disco (http://discoproject.org/)? Comments, good/bad/neutral?
From the page:
read moreDisco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers.
The Disco core is written in …
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My talk this year kinda sucked -- more on that later -- and I am trying to come up with good and perhaps even non-testing talk ideas for next year.
One intriguing idea contributed by Brian Dorsey is that of giving 5 lightning talks in a 30 minute session. Since I like …
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John Gall apparently said:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with …read more
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Just a short note with characteristic inhumility (ahumility? abhumility?) -- for my Concepts in Database-Backed Web Programming course, I received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence from the students.
This means a lot to me, because I spent a huge amount of time on that course (and will have to do …
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