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Google’s App Engine 1.3.0 was released yesterday along with a brand new Blobstore API allowing the storage and serving of files up to 50MB.
Store and Serve – Files can be uploaded and stored as blobs, to be served later in response to user requests...
Google’s App Engine 1.3.0 was released yesterday along with a brand new Blobstore API allowing the storage and serving of files up to 50MB.
Store and Serve – Files can be uploaded and stored as blobs, to be served later in response to user requests...
There’s a very interesting blog post over at Raw Thought on the topic of hiring programmers. It offers the following insight on hiring:
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can...
On the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new venture centered around the iPhone. The process of building our app has been quite an adventure and we’ve experimented with several technologies that were new to us before reaching our current technology...
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Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. It is also the creator of Hive, a data warehouse infrastructure...
The basic model for MapReduce derives from the map and reduce concept in functional languages like Lisp. In Lisp, a map takes as input a function and a sequence of values and applies the function to each value in the sequence. A reduce takes as input...
I wrote the stocky application more than a year ago as a research project aimed at proving that using WPF we can separate presentation metadata (XAML) from program logic. The goal was to provide the Duet team at SAP with a document reference sample for...
Guy wrote a post about rendering an RSS feed on ASP.NET MVC using custom feed model classes and a view that renders the feed XML.
There’s a better (shorter) way for achieving the same result while leveraging on the Syndication mechanism built into .NET...
I encountered this post on my weekend reading. 91 Surefire Ways to Become an Event Greater Developer contain a comprehensive guide linking to all sort of blog posts providing insights on improving your skills as a developer. While the list is very long...