- 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 )
Links: 3-12-2008
- Screengrab! :: Firefox Add-ons
This is money. Mon-ey.
(categories: screenshot screengrab firefox addon browser )
Links: 3-4-2008
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- The Art of Possibility – Google Book Search
I’m a sucker for good acronyms: BTFI is a pretty cool one.
(categories: btfi reading books ted )
Links: 2-29-2008
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- InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper (by ratings)
Cool wallpapers.
(categories: wallpaper art desktop )
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 )