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  1. Cloudant allows you to set permissions to your CouchDB. This would be an easy way to give read-only access to data in JSON format. 7:36 AM Dec 12th from web
  2. These are excellent posts that provide insights into concurrency issues: http://bit.ly/6cEwPM and http://bit.ly/4JDHO6 #Clojure 9:58 AM Dec 2nd from web
  3. Spring, Hibernate & ActiveRecord made it easier to work with databases, but what if the db itself made it easier? Enter CouchDB & MongoDB 5:33 AM Nov 10th from web
  4. A cool way to learn Clojure would be to create a partition proxy to CouchDb like couchdb-lounge, but written in Clojure. 9:10 AM Nov 7th from web
  5. Good docs are important and the folks at MongoDB have done an excellent job documenting how to use their data store. 6:27 AM Nov 6th from web
  6. Imagine a healthcare provider with an easy to use website, a big search bar, and useful info about coverage? There's an idea ycombinator! 11:38 AM Oct 28th from web
  7. MongoDB is starting to stand out in my eyes: It stores structured data, has rich (deep) queries, caching, an easy setup and nice docs. 10:40 AM Oct 22nd from web
  8. Tip for backing up Gmail email: 1) Setup Evolution client with Gmail 2) Download all email 3) Select from file menu - backup 9:53 AM Oct 10th from web
  9. One use of Hadoop is to parse large log files. Awk is great for parsing small files. I expect a renewed interest in this great unix utility. 6:39 AM Sep 21st from web
  10. Hadoop uses MapReduce to process large datasets in batch, whereas CouchDB uses MapReduce to process Web data in real time. 5:15 PM Sep 17th from web
  11. For anyone looking to find insights into how to work with large datasets, I highly recommend reading Google's 13 page paper on MapReduce 7:03 AM Sep 17th from web
  12. Functional programming may seem like just an academic topic, but try debugging a program with side-effects and you'll appreciate it more. 4:55 AM Sep 9th from web
  13. Writing software is like playing football: adding new functionality is the offense and writing/executing automated tests is the defense 7:23 AM Sep 3rd from web
  14. What to spend excess time on? Refactor and automate tests or prototype new breakthrough technologies. Not always an easy decision 12:45 PM Aug 6th from web
  15. Setup a 2.5yr/old Dell e1405 w/ Ubuntu 9.0.4 and it works great. 2 simple changes needed: proprietary wireless driver and android fonts. 5:34 AM Jul 29th from web
  16. Layouts, colors, and fonts are important elements of software that shape the user experience, but performance is often just as important 2:17 AM Jul 18th from web
  17. The words 'awesome' and 'receipts' don't often go together, but this site seems to mix both: https://www.shoeboxed.com/index.htm 6:44 AM Jul 16th from web
  18. Social networking sites like Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter are like bars and there will be many types: some popular, some niche-oriented 4:54 AM Jul 12th from web
  19. I Looked through a 1991 #Economics textbook, which was 650 pages long, and noticed only 3 small paragraphs were devoted to China. 6:30 PM Jul 8th from web
  20. I just bought the O'reilly Hadoop book. Good stuff. I also enjoyed watching video from the noSQL conference: http://vimeo.com/5145059 10:09 AM Jul 3rd from web