March 17th, 2009 • Comments Off on Cloudera annouces commercial support for Hadoop
Cloudera annouced that they would offer support for Apache Hadoop on their website. Apache Hadoop is inspired by the Google technologies MapReduce and Google Filesystem. Nice detail: Hadoop is named after the stuffed elephant of one of the engineers kid.
Michael Olson is stated as the current CEO of Cloudera. He formly worked for Sleepycat who created Berkeley DB. They where later bought by Oracle. Nevertheless the idea to bring enterprise support to Hadoop sounds nice.
BTW another interesting posting about Sun Grid Engine and Hadoop: http://blogs.sun.com/ravee/entry/creating_hadoop_pe_under_sge
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March 17th, 2009 • Comments Off on Who protects the internet
Nice article on popsci.com about undersea cables, repairing them, and how the Internet works: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-03/who-protects-intrnet
Totally worth a read!
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March 11th, 2009 • Comments Off on Are you a developer? Have you read these books?
So you are a software developer? The next list is a set of books which I would recommend to read 🙂 Might not be complete so feel free to add some more!
CodeCraft – Pete Goodliffe
Beautiful Code – Andy Oram; Greg Wilson
Code Complete – Steve McConnell
The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Mythical Man Month – Frederick P. Brooks
The Productive Programmer – Neil Ford
Practical Development Environments – Matthew Doar
Head First Design Patterns – Eric, Elisabeth Freeman
The Art of Agile Development – James Shore, Shane Warden
Managing Software Requirements – Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig
Managing Iterative Software Development Projects – Kurt Bittner, Ian Spence
Refactoring – Martin Fowler
Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software – Jerry Zeyu Gao
A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software – John D. McGregor, David A. Sykes
Beside all these nice books there are plenty of other books around which are great. For example books about programming languages, getting things done, presentations, etc…So grap a book and start to read 🙂 In my opinion good code quality starts with the developer. And a developer who is informed, up-to-date and knows what he is doing writes quality code!
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March 9th, 2009 • Comments Off on Clean Code – book review
The book "Clean code" from Robert C. Martin has the subtitle: "A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship". It comes up with some nice ideas. Many of them you might know, but hidden in the book are some other ideas. Overall it’s well written and easy to read. And compared to the book "Code Craft" much thinner so faster to read (Although Code Craft is a very good book, and a must read for prgrammers!). Overall a nice book if you want to get into the idea of writting quality code.
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March 9th, 2009 • Comments Off on Open Grid Forum – Cloud Interface API BoF session (update)
Me, myself and I at the stage answering questions at OGF 25 (Cloud interface API BoF session):
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