- InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper (by ratings)
Cool wallpapers.
(categories: wallpaper art desktop )
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Links: 2-25-2008
- Hacker News | Ask: Text Message Providers? (Who do Buxfer,etc use?)
Good info on SMS / text messaging providers.
(categories: sms messaging mobile text ) - Rackspace: Using MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data
Great writeup on how Rackspace’s mail division uses MapReduce and Hadoop to big data. Note: Mailtrust generates several hundred gigabytes of email log data each day.
(categories: bigdata mail scalability architecture mapreduce hadoop performance )
Links: 2-16-2008
- ESPN.com – E-ticket: Who is this guy?
Interesting article about the Ernie Adams, a behind the scenes guy for the Patriots that crunches numbers instead of linebackers.
(categories: analysis management people reading nfl patriots )
Links: 2-7-2008
- Feed button test page
This feels really sketchy: basically using JavaScript it’s possible to find out if someone using your site has visited another site by constructing links to that site and checking the visited link color.
(categories: javascript hacks browserhistory )
Links: 1-31-2008
- Google Docs Bar – Companion for Firefox : Download
Now I’m gonna have to add file upload to Clearfox. Well done guys.
(categories: googledocs clearfox extension firefox google plugins )
instantFeeds 1.0.6
Now with support for feeds protected by HTTP Basic Authentication and feeds that are served by a web server that uses an invalid certificate. Download the latest version or check out the source code.