Best of Vim Tips by zzapper 15 Years of Vi + 7+ years of Vim and still learning Read More
Google Apps Calendar – Only Able To Share Free Busy Information
The only reason I am writing this is that I have spent many evening trying to fix it! Read More
How to split one cable between two Ethernet PCs
Although the scheme below is not recommended for new installations and is not standards-compliant, sometimes it becomes necessary to share one 4-pair cable between two Ethernet computers. Read More
Retrieving elements in a specific order in django
If you have a list of ordered ids and you want to turn them into an ordered result set you can use FIELD() in mysql:
SELECT * FROM addons
ORDER BY FIELD(id, 3, 5, 9, 1);
Simple CGI support for Nginx
Fcgiwrap is a simple server for running CGI applications over FastCGI. It hopes to provide clean CGI support to Nginx (and other web servers that may need it). Read More
Random shuffle in erlang
There are two basics algorithms for this both described by Knuth. The more well known Knuth/Fisher-Yates shuffle is O(n) but requires destructive updates. The shuffle listed is O(n log n) but works well for any functional language Read More
Lamer News: A Redis-Sinatra-JQuery HN-like News Site
Salvatore antirez Sanfilippo has published on GitHub Lamer News a Hacker News like social site built on top of Redis, Sinatra, and jQuery—when writing this I’ve already checked out the code. For a long time Twitter-related and blog-related projects have been the favorite demos for NoSQL solutions, so its nice to see more serious applications featured.
The project is also running live at lamer news.com. It could benefit of a bit of UI liftup though.
Basho Raises $5mil for Improving Riak
Congratulations to the Basho guys for closing an additional $5m round of funding. According to Martin Schneider “the funds will be used to make Riak an even better product. We have some seriously awesome plans for additional features, platform capabilities, cloud tools etc.”
Details: This is the second round raised this year after the $7.5m announced in June bringing it to a total of $12.5m. The new funding comes from an inside round. Past investors in Basho have included private equity firm Georgetown Partners and Danish systems integrator Trifork AS.
As for me, Riak is not production solution for nowdays.
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