April 30, 2010

XtraDB / InnoDB internals in drawing

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/04/26/xtradb-innodb-internals-in-drawing/ wow
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

April 29, 2010

Vending Spree - Talkin' Snack

http://www.vendingspree.com/ I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine and there is nothing you can do to stop me.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

April 28, 2010

jQuery Sparklines

http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Xmonad and NetworkManager - Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843341 ah ha!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

High Performance Web Sites :: Call to improve browser caching

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/04/26/call-to-improve-browser-caching/ a really damned good point
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Grandstanding Coverage (craigslist blog)

http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/04/coverage-of-ct-ag-grandstanding/ preach on!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

April 26, 2010

Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Colon Blow

http://www.hulu.com/watch/10304/saturday-night-live-colon-blow a classic!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

How to Install a Solar PV Array – Part 1: Planning

http://joe.zawodny.com/index.php/2010/04/24/how-to-install-solar-pv-part-1/ lots of background on my uncle's solar system
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Redis tutorial, April 2010 - by Simon Willison

http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/ Simon put together an excellent tutorial on Redis
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

April 25, 2010

How to: Set Tomato Firmware for Wireless Client Modes - www.wi-fiplanet.com

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3810281 a slightly inaccurate article that's pretty useful overall
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

WNYC - Radiolab » Lucy

http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2010/02/19/lucy/ what a fantastic story
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 24, 2010

David Lebovitz's Chocolate Chip Cookies

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/david-lebovitzs-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe.html?ref=se-bb2 mmm... cookies
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Improved Git-enabled Shell Prompt

http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2010/04/improved-git-enabled-shell-prompt.html that seems rather handy
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

The Role of IO as a Bottleneck

http://www.slideshare.net/morgo/the-role-of-io-as-a-bottleneck a good presentation form Morgan at Percona about I/O bottlenecks
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Cook the Book: Pork Rib Roast with Rosemary and Sage

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/pork-rib-roast-with-rosemary-and-sage-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseats%2Frecipes+%28Serious+Eats%3A+Recipes%29 mmm... this sounds tasty! must try...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

NoSQL at Twitter (NoSQL EU 2010)

http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010 lots of good info in this presentation
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 23, 2010

The fake problems in infomercials

http://kottke.org/10/04/the-fake-problems-in-infomercials that is sooooo funny
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Redis -- Memory as the New Disk

http://www.slideshare.net/tim.lossen.de/redis-memory-as-the-new-disk a good overview of redis and some of the motivation for using it
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

MySQL Performance: post notes after UC2010

http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/04-01-2010_04-30-2010.html#106 some good notes
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Introduction to ngingx.conf scripting

http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 some truly crazy shit in here... impressively so!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 22, 2010

Yahoo wants to do what Facebook did, only slower

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/04/yahoo-wants-to-do-what-facebook-did-only-slower/ "It’s just that it all seems both sort of unambitious, even obvious, and a tad familiar." BURN!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Capital Public Radio: Sacramento, Sonora, Groveland, NPR

http://www.capradio.org/ nearby radio for groveland and pine mountain lake
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

YouTube - Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I this is a show I keep meaning to watch
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/are-you-one-of-the-10-percent/ fascinating
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

White Beans with Garlic and Herbs

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/white-beans-with-garlic-and-herbs-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseats%2Frecipes+%28Serious+Eats%3A+Recipes%29 this sounds yum
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catonmat+%28good+coders+code%2C+great+reuse%29 there is some cool shit in there
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 AM

April 21, 2010

Using Git with a central repository

http://toroid.org/ams/git-central-repo-howto a remarkably good intro to something that's otherwise difficult to figure out in my experience
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Ranking tech companies by revenue per employee

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-by-revenue-per-employee you can prove anything with made up numbers and charts!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

VPN over WiMAX

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/17/VPNOverWiMAX.aspx Apparently changing your MTU to 1400 makes a difference
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

April 20, 2010

National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities

http://www.gradeinflation.com/ wow, look at the grade inflation!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

April 19, 2010

InnoDB 1.1 for MySQL 5.5 User’s Guide (Early Adopter Release) :: 7 Performance and Scalability Enhancements

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.1/en/innodb-performance.html this is the one place to look for all the big changes
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Massive CouchDB Brain Dump

http://blog.mattwoodward.com/massive-couchdb-brain-dump wow, lots of good info!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Lenovo Support & downloads - Wireless LAN card installation movie - ThinkPad R61, R400, R500, T61, T400, T500, W500

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-72560.html I should probably watch this
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

April 18, 2010

O'Reilly MySQL CE 2010: Slava Akhmechet and Michael Glukhovsky, "RethinkDB: ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDHc3lkr3Ns&feature=player_embedded a good overview of the motivations behind RethinkDB
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Skydiver grabs glider's tail fin as they fly 2,100 metres up at 100mph

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265891/Hold-think-youre-going-Skydiver-grabs-gliders-tail-fin-fly-2-100-metres-100mph.html#ixzz0lC2t7ddP kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Improving MySQL based applications performance with Sphinx

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sphinx_new.pdf a great sphinx overview from Percona
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

MySQL Changes in Release 5.5.x (Development)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-x.html lots of goodies!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

4 Months with Cassandra, a love story

https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/mar/02/4_months_with_cassandra/ cloudkick's experience with cassandra so far is pretty good
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

How we're going to hire our next web developer

http://cykod.com/blog/post/2010-04-how-were-going-to-hire-our-next-web-developer YES. do it
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Newegg.com - Foxconn NT330I+NETDVD-B-NA NVIDIA ION 1 x 200Pin NVIDIA ION graphics processor Mini / Booksize Barebone System

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=56-119-022&nm_mc=EMC-SW041810&cm_mmc=EMC-SW041810-_-index-_-E1A-_-56-119-022 interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 15, 2010

The Data Charmer: Getting started with MySQL 5.5

http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2009/12/getting-started-with-mysql-55.html some good info on new 5.5 features, including semi-sync replication
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 14, 2010

BlueRunner: Email in the Cloud with Cassandra

http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer//nfic/2009/IBM-Jun-Rao.pdf interesting work done by IBM researchers using cassandra as an email backend for a larger system
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Lucandra: A Cassandra-based Lucene backend

http://blog.sematext.com/2010/02/09/lucandra-a-cassandra-based-lucene-backend/ funky yet cool
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved

http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/ interesting background on a cassandra choice
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

ArticlesAndPresentations - Cassandra Wiki

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations lots of good places to learn about cassandra
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Data Presentations Cassandra Sigmod

http://www.slideshare.net/jhammerb/data-presentations-cassandra-sigmod a good high-level overview of cassandra
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

What Every Developer Should Know About Database Scalability

http://www.slideshare.net/jbellis/what-every-developer-should-know-about-database-scalability there's some very good stuff in here... a lot of it you only learn the hard way!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model

http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model a very helpful look at the cassandra data model
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

high concurrency mysql

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgjzt2ms_40gjxrjkdx some good stuff from the facebook crew
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

mihasya's ishmael at master - GitHub

http://github.com/mihasya/ishmael A UI for browsing the data generated by mk-query-digest tool
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 13, 2010

How to make Low Country Boil

http://www.kingofpeace.org/lowcountryboil.htm "Easy to make in large quantities, it is a great main dish for a party." Seem easy enough...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Stockton Asparagus Festival Information

http://www.asparagusfest.com/ I had no idea there was such a thing. And I didn't know that Loverboy and Blue Oyster Cult were still playing.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

April 11, 2010

Garmin GPSMAP 196 Aviation with WAAS

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250613860050#ht_500wt_1182 buy my old aviation GPS
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

South Park: You Have 0 Friends

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112 holy crap, that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

April 09, 2010

Says it all (javascript)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alikins/4439062727/ yes. yes it does...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Apple Slaps Developers In The Face

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 "Go screw yourself Apple." Yikes.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Atheist Barbie

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-dxg8gReUqE/S74pWl6bt8I/AAAAAAAAAwI/-Q2E5yOyKO4/s1600/AtheistBarbie.jpg hahhaha
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off – Part 2

http://wildammo.com/2010/04/06/what-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off-part-2/ WOW! way to much free time. but so cool and amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Reviving my C64 history with a uIEC/SD

http://decafbad.com/blog/2010/04/07/reviving-my-c64-with-a-uiecsd "You want to talk about a magical device? Screw the iPad—this is magic." Awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

April 08, 2010

2009 Alaska Air show Accident Valdez Alaska [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaQhyezbD4&NR=1 FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Solar Airplane Completes Maiden Voyage

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/04/solar-airplane-completes-maiden-voyage/ that's just plain awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Why Men's Friendships Are Different

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052702304620304575166090090482912.html this explains things, ya know
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

sphinx: Facets, multi-queries, and searching 3x faster

http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/2010/04/05/facets-multi-queries-and-searching-3x-faster/ this gives me interesting ideas...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

SR-71 Flight Manual

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/ declassified and on-line!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 05, 2010

San Francisco Bay Area Air Traffic Control on your Desktop

http://live.airportnetwork.com/sfo/flights.asp this is very cool... 10 minute delayed flight info on a mp
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Full-text search BOF session at MySQL Conference```

http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/2010/03/31/full-text-search-bof-session-at-mysql-conference/ excellent... i'm there
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 04, 2010

This is the The Official Zenburn Page

http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburnpage/ Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim. It’s easy for your eyes and designed to keep you in the zone for long programming sessions.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Dude, Where's Our Car?

http://shareable.net/blog/dude-wheres-our-car "Oddly, the day the wifi and cable TV were shut off felt like a liberation."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

April 03, 2010

13 small things to simplify your workday

http://zenhabits.net/2010/03/simplify-your-workday/ there is some VERY good advice in here
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

OpenSSH New Feature: “Netcat mode”

http://blog.rootshell.be/2010/03/08/openssh-new-feature-netcat-mode/ that's kind of cool
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

April 02, 2010

The First SF Redis Meetup Notes

http://www.build47.com/posts/the-first-sf-redis-meetup/ there are some surprisingly detailed notes
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

April 01, 2010

The Collapse of Complex Business Models

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ very well said, as if often the case when it comes to Clay Shirky
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

FOIA Letter Generator

http://www.rcfp.org/foialetter/index.php handy tool for generating a freedom of information request from the government
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

SurvivalRealty.com: A directory of listing agents, agencies, and property owners specializing in survival retreats.

http://www.survivalrealty.com/ there's some pretty insane (and amazing/crazy) stuff on this site. I had no idea there was a specialization in "survival realty" of any sort
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Cloudera’s Support Team Shares Some Basic Hardware Recommendations « Cloudera » Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise

http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/03/clouderas-support-team-shares-some-basic-hardware-recommendations/ good advice on hardware for hadoop
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

VPN on Ubuntu Linux with Juniper Network Connect (64bit)

http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2009/06/vpn-on-ubuntu-linux-with-juniper-network-connect/ how to get the lame Juniper Network Connect VPN working on 64bit linux
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Juniper Network Connect SSL VPN and Virtualization

http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2007/07/28/Juniper-Network-Connect-SSL-VPN-and-Virtualization.html this gets me remarkably close to what I wan to be able to do with our VPN
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM