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W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database
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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
Stop Words as Social Signals (a result that goes against IR common knowledge)
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
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Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby
I've been a big proponent of NoSQL for a while. I have played with just about all of the new generation of data stores. We almost got cassandra running in production once, and we've been running mongodb in production for about six months now.
Redis, from the Ground Up
A deep dive into the data structure server: origins, design decisions, feature set, applications, and more.
A Story of O(racle)
In recent days I’ve been thinking of JavaOne, as we kicked it around and decided we just couldn’t send speakers ; and of Oracle OpenWorld , to which JavaOne will now serve as an appendage. It reminded me of a conversation I had last year about Oracle.
Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)
Now for something completely different. In the spiritual vein of One Night in Rio: Vacation photos from Plan9 and AWK for multimedia, here is a tool that is the link that ties almost all the projec…
Million Lines of Code - Infographic
Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines of code are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? Let our data-visualization program your brain.