Aaron Johnson Now with 50% less caffeine!

Links: 3-13-2008

• The Tools Google Uses Internally
  Cool stuff including the Google Ideas forum (rating ideas) and expert search.
  (categories: google intranet collaboration tools productivity )

• scottberkun.com » Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
  Quote: "Google’s culture has a resistance, or even distrust, of hierarchy - they often use voting, peer review, and debate to make decisions or decide which new projects and features to add… "
  (categories: google innovation scottberkun management )

• Atlassian Developer Blog - Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment
  So true: "… As a company grows, an engineer spends more time doing the software development - but paradoxically he spends less time building the things he personally wants in the product."
  (categories: development atlassian google innovation management )

• Condor : High Throughput Computing
  Quote: "Condor can be used to manage a cluster of dedicated compute nodes. In addition, unique mechanisms enable Condor to effectively harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations."
  (categories: condor distributed cluster computing grid clusters clustering )

• Hadoop On Demand
  Directions on how to setup / configure Hadoop nodes on demand.
  (categories: hadoop distributed mapreduce via:aws.typepad.com )

• Blogging Roller: HOWTO: Configure Roller to use Memcached
  Rollers supports pluggable caching, somebody at Sun wrote a memcached impl.
  (categories: for:pmatern caching roller memcached )

I love the thought of Google’s “20%” time, and how they seem to work. And it’s obviously worked for them. It in some ways it sure seems to beat more rigid, planned, sales-driven feature development.