Archive for July, 2006
I was at the Steve Nash Charity Classic this past Saturday in Vancouver. Overall it was an impressive event with the supporting evidence available here.
The Vancouver Province has excellent coverge on Steve’s charity endeavors. In fact, the basketball court that’s mentioned is just a couple km’s up to the road.
It’s nice to see [...]
Just about to head to Vancouver to watch the Steve Nash Charity Classic.
Being a Victoria native, this event is something I’ve been looking forward to for awhile now. It also doesn’t hurt that I’ll be sitting center court and in the first row.
Pictures of the event will follow.
Amazon is all about scale. In recent presentations I have been demonstrating how Amazon Engineers are scalability experts who can take any concept idea and turn it into a service that can serve hundreds of customers and then grow it seamlessly to support hundreds of millions of customers. In the Amazon world there is no [...]
If you’re in Vancouver next Thursday (July 27th), you should consider stopping by the BC Genome Sciences Centre at 6:00.
Speaker: Narayanan ‘Shiva’ Shivakumar, Founding Director of Google’s Seattle-Kirkland R&D center
Title: Google - Behind the Scenes
Abstract:
Google deals with large amounts of data and millions of users. We’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at some of the distributed [...]
Yesterday was Canada Day.
As is a usual activity on July 1st, I attended a friends bbq for a few hours yesterday afternoon. It was a pretty casual affair, I ended up driving, parking on a side street and walking down. A few hours later I walked back to my car only to see [...]
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
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Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how ...
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