janl comes to the bbc to talk couchdb
Craig has just posted a video from the recent couchdb session that Jan Lehnardt did at the bbc. It was a good intro session on what couchdb is, and more to the point, what it’s NOT. More info on couchdb over here. CouchDB is a non-relational data store, which is document centric, and can use map-reduce to get stuff out. …
Read Morelast weekend: SW4 (southwest 4) at clapham common
Lots of DJ’s in Clapham Common, one of the big parks (commons) in London, and about 5 mins walk from Vince’s places. Not a lot to say, except: Armin van Burren Carl Cox John Digweed Sister Bliss Marcus Schultz Sander van Doorn … and some fine weather in London. Throw in Tiesto and John 00 Fleming (oh, how good would …
Read Morenew coding hero: jon skeet
[Thanks to Julian for the link. I now have 9 items in my reading queue, and I really should get the book.] I like his samples because he often does them in both C# and Java, which keeps me thinking Jon Skeet. C#. Java. Book. Blog. Closures. Properties Matter Bluffers guide to C# 3.0 (I so need to read this …
Read Morediebold admits voting machine misses votes
OK, this just on slashdot.org. “Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio’s counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software …
Read Morewho moved my brain?
Merlin Mann is, once again, brilliant. Thanks to my pals, Dara and Shawn, I’ve been preparing for a return visit with the folks at GoDaddy to deliver a couple talks on Inbox Zero and Time and Attention. As I’ve been going over my slides for the Time & Attention talk, I realized I hadn’t shared how the material has evolved …
Read Moregoogle apps finally gets SSL forced
Yup, the title says it all. GMail has had “force SSL” for quite a while, but now Google Apps has it. You can find it in the Manage This Domain area (ie, where you manage the domain as a whole), under Domain Settings -> General. About time. Enabled. Especially given the google mail hacking tool thinggie which is out there.
Read Moretotally. random. psytrace. quote.
To me, that is so…. counter-intuitive, it’s like the person who says the external world is unreal. That, in fact, you are actually brain in a vat of chemicals, being stimulated by a mad scientist to hallucinate the external world. Cable Enable by Atmos. from Headcleaner. Still one of my favourite Psytrance CD’s. I think I’m going to have to …
Read Moregmail outages? what gmail outages?
I think Dan nailed it with this post Wow! There’s been plenty of coverage of the recent massive (yeah, right) 2 hour GMail outage. The end of cloud computing? Erm… I don’t think so. … Go figure how much all this would cost you: email server, email software, o/s licenses, backup software, hosting, ongoing management and maintenance, staff costs, etc… …
Read Moremore on iphone data charges
Lots of people were moaning about the low amount of data on Vodafone NZ’s plans. So here’s some solid usage data from, well, my phone. In the past month (as I’ve had the phone for a month so far), I’ve used a grand total of 28.2MB received 3MB sent Yes, you read that right. Thirty three megs of data in …
Read Morestuff on voip
So, stuff has an article on VOIP, promo’ed on the homepage, and I guess from the Sunday Star Times. Nice to see a fairly well done, simple (ie, normal people can understand it) article on the topic, as it’s kind of a black art for most. However, as usual with stuff/SST/DomPost, there is a few glairing holes, eg: So, for …
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