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Python Magazine February Issue Available

Posted on February 21, 2008 by bkjones

Go grab your copy now! If you’re not a subscriber, get the PDF or Print+PDF subscription now! This month there’s a really cool article about how to take data from a spreadsheet and use it to plot points on Live Maps to provide a useful service to employees in the field. I also chimed in…

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Hadoop introductory video

Posted on January 31, 2008 by bkjones

This is a great talk with the head of Yahoo’s grid team that talks about the open source project Hadoop, which is an open source distributed file system and MapReduce implementation. The video is long and interspersed with Yahoo! specifics you might not care about – but keep watching, because they swing back to talking…

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Sun Acquires MySQL

Posted on January 16, 2008 by bkjones

I’m pretty sure I’m not pleased about this, but I guess only time will tell. Maybe now my boss will let me move to PostgreSQL 😀 See the news release here Blogged with Flock

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AppLogic Cheat Sheet

Posted on January 11, 2008 by bkjones

I’ve been using AppLogic for exactly one month today, and I’ve learned a whole heckuva lot about what it takes to build an infrastructure using the AppLogic grid operating system. One of the very first things I learned is that there is just a TON of documentation, but a very large portion of it is…

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December issue of Python Magazine Out, and DRM-Free

Posted on December 26, 2007 by bkjones

After the October and November issues of Python Magazine were both out for some time, I was pretty surprised when I joined IRC channels only to find lots of people who still didn’t know about Python Magazine. Well, the December issue has just been released in both print and PDF, and I think it’s a…

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The beginnings of a CLI interface to Google Spreadsheets

Posted on December 19, 2007 by bkjones

I’m really re-posting this from an O’Reillynet posting I made a while back in order to test out the code highlighting capabilities of my new wordpress installation. It seems that it’s not really working correctly [UPDATE: Seems to be working now :-D]. Anyway, I hate (HATE!) spreadsheets. Even the Google variant. The interfaces to these…

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How to Build Your Own MySQL 5 Server in AppLogic

Posted on December 19, 2007May 14, 2008 by bkjones

I’m building an infrastructure on a grid using AppLogic, which is a grid OS that provides both GUI and command line interfaces to build your infrastructure. I use both interfaces, depending on the task I’m trying to perform at the time. One thing I have discovered is that there are a lot of somewhat nebulous…

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Holy Crap I’m Busy

Posted on December 19, 2007May 14, 2008 by bkjones

I feel guilty that I’m even taking this little bit of time to post this. I’m *BUSY*. I’m simultaneously: learning how to deploy a fully-virtualized, production infrastructure on a grid using AppLogic planning and scripting the bits and pieces that need to happen to migrate an infrastructure to a grid architecture. Doing code review for…

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…So little time

Posted on December 7, 2007 by bkjones

I’m not usually this bad about writing on my blog, but the past few weeks have been a little nuts. But it’s the ‘good’ kind of nuts. I’m working on MySQL, memcached, database replication, optimizing SQL queries (and, in one case, the database schema itself), writing Python (using ctypes, and trying to parse the C-encrusted…

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I’ve Been Added

Posted on November 13, 2007 by bkjones

Friday was my last day working as a contractor for the GFDL. I had friends there before I ever worked there, so I’m sad to be leaving them, but I’m happy to be moving on to a really exciting opportunity. I’m now an employee of AddThis.com. I’ll be able to focus on architecture, and how…

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