Tag Archives: review

CouchDB

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Darian Shimy

CouchDB is a document-oriented database allowing you to store semi-structured data.  Written in Erlang, CouchDB provides a simple API access via RESTful web services.  The basics are analogous to Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) where you can store and retrieve … Continue reading →

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A Quality Apple

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Darian Shimy

Sadly today, I need to take my wife’s iPhone to an Apple store for a replacement.  This is will be the 7th iPhone between the two of us.  Here are the problems we encountered: The earphone jack stopped working, phone … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Darian Shimy

“Better to ask for forgiveness than permission” – Various

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Grid Gain Misses the Mark

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Darian Shimy

Grid Gain is a Java-based open-source computing grid.  They have done an excellent job in making the developers tasks of working with computational grids simple.  Their class-loader seems to do a lot of heavy lifting and with the examples I … Continue reading →

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