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	<title>Yousef Ourabi</title>
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		<title>Cloud Confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this article on Cloud Hosting today and some things I read really bothered me. I haven&#8217;t actually browsed technorati in a long time (maybe 2006?) and things seem to have changed dramatically. Technorati is now hosting content (blog postings). Maybe I was aware of this at point but forgot about it&#8230; but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2010/03/cloud-confusion/</link>
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		<title>Mozilla weave a day late and a buck short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mozilla blog just announced the 1.0 release of mozilla weave something I had been keenly interested in until recently. That was before Chrome. I understand that it was a massive undertaking, but honestly they are late to the market.  Chrome has already won me over and once there was a release for the Mac &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2010/02/mozilla-weave-a-day-late-and-a-buck-short/</link>
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		<title>2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; It has been a long time since I&#8217;ve posted anything here. That will change. I&#8217;m going to make it a resolution to write more often, and also explore different writing styles.
Happy New Year!
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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2010/01/2010/</link>
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		<title>The origin of CloudFronts competitive advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the word play, but I&#8217;m about to drop some nerd up in here. There is some FUD being spread by people who either don&#8217;t understand the real advantages of Amazons cloudfront, or have a vested interest in spreading fear. One conversation that caught my attention for was in the comments section of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/11/the-origin-of-cloudfronts-competitive-advantage/</link>
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		<title>Amazon CloudFront via SVN or GIT hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the big news of the night is that Amazon has released &#8216;CloudFront&#8217; their S3 based CDN that competes really agressivly with exisitng players (Akamai&#8230;etc)
Having worked with&#8230; less enlightened solutions&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking the ultimate CloudFront deployment scenario would be via an SVN or GIT hook. If you commit an asset to /static/css or /static/css a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/11/amazon-cloudfront-via-svn-or-git-hook/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon: Schema Evolution Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Schema Migration panel by: Simon Willison, Russ Keith-Magee, Andrew Godwin, and  moderated by Michael Trier was an interesting sampling of the various methods used in schema migration.
Simon Wilson presented dmigrations . Installing dmigrations is as simple as installing it in INSTALLED_APPS, and it will registers a few custom admin commands:
./manage.py dmigrate app APP_NAME
./manage.py dmigrate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/09/djangocon-schema-evolution-panel/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon: Django Code Design and Writing Patches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A follow up to the &#8220;Inside the Django ORM&#8221; speak, Malcolm Tredinnick gave his second talk Sunday on Django Code design and patch writing (Aka Code Quality, Patch Quality).
After reading around 6000 bug tickets, certain patterns have emerged in the submitted patches&#8230;
Code Quality Matters &#8212; funny quote from Leah Culver: &#8220;Have you every written a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/09/djangocon-django-code-design-and-writing-patches/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon: Inside the ORM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malcom Tredinnick gave an awesome presentation about the Django ORM.
The code for the ORM is located in django/db with juicy bits in the following locations:
django/db/models/query.py (public queryset API)
django/db/models/sql/* (Public API-&#62;SQL conversion. Deep dark internals. Does&#8217;t know DB, knows SQL)
django/db/backends/* (Individual DB wrappers, third-party wrappers possible. This is where you actually talk to the DB). See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/09/djangocon-inside-the-orm/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon: ReviewBoard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presented by: Christian Hammon, David Trowbridge
Review-Board is a python/django based code-review application. In 2004 VMware was approx. 600 employee&#8217;s and already had a rigorous code-review process in place. At first simple HTML snippets were emailed around. Fast forward to 2007 and the company had grown to 5000 employee&#8217;s, and the previous system of email around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/09/djangocon-reviewboard/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really, really inactive in posting. That is going to change. I&#8217;m currently at DjangoCon 2008, and will be posting a few things about some cool new things I&#8217;m learning about.
More soon.
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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/09/djangocon-2008/</link>
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		<title>Amazon EBS SAN for the cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has just released their latest addition to the cloud offerings: EBS or &#8220;Elastic Block Store&#8221;. The pricing looks very reasonable at 10 cents per Gigabyte, and 10 cents for every millionth I/O operation. It also comes with some juicy features like the ability to create a snapshot to S3 at any point in time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/08/amazon-ebs-san-for-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Django 1 Alpha 2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Django foundation has pushed out the second alpha release of Django 1.0 , see the blog post here
Earlier in the week I received &#8220;Practical Django Projects&#8221; in the mail &#8212; chomping at the bit for enough time to get into it.
Exciting times. 
I wonder if there isn&#8217;t some room in the Django ORM back-end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/08/django-1-alpha-2-released/</link>
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		<title>LinkedIn redirecting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is redirecting to some video commenting startup? I did an nslookup on linkedin.com which resolves to 70.42.142.23 &#8212; I ran host 70.42.142.23 which resolved to redirect.linkedin.com
The page &#8220;Intense Debate&#8221; seems to be about some sort of video blogging system. See screenshot:
What is going on?

Update: redirect is no longer happening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/08/linkedin-redirecting/</link>
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		<title>why -1 evaluates true</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Languages that do not have native boolean data-types that let you branch on non-boolean data types evaluate all non zero values as &#8220;truthy&#8221;,  (-1) evaluates to true. You might be wondering, as I did, why that is?  After poking around and looking at some x86 assembly instructions, I suspect it is a compiler optimization.
At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/08/why-1-evaluates-true/</link>
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		<title>On demand indexing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of buzz around the launch of cuil whose premise is more effecient indexing &#8212; what about indexing on demmand &#8212; more after I get off the bus
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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/on-demand-indexing/</link>
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		<title>DjangoCon at the Googleplex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Lofthouse and Jacob Kaplan-Moss have just announced the first DjangoCon over at the Django Blog
It will be hosted the weekend of September 6th and 7th at the GooglePlex (Mountain View, CA). Since this is the first conference (and hosted at Google) space will be limited to 200 attendees so I suggested putting the Django [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/djangocon-at-the-googleplex/</link>
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		<title>Django sprint in Sausalito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Django 1.0 is scheduled for release this September and I was surprised to see that one of the upcoming sprints (July 25th) will be in Sausalito &#8212; I&#8217;m interested in going, but not sure I can get away from work for an entire day.
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SprintSausalitoJuly2008
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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/django-sprint-in-sausalito/</link>
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		<title>Manage AWS with Jollat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jollat is a cross platform too (Windows, Mac, OS X) to manage Amazon&#8217;s EC2 and S3 services. There is a video demonstrating the tool on youtube
The S3 manage allows you to create US or EU buckets and drag and drop stuff from your desktop. The EC2 component comes with an AMI browser and built in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/manage-aws-with-jollat/</link>
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		<title>CLISP 2.46 to keep you busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been super busy lately barely finding the time for the mediocre updates I have posted. My team-mates and I have been working on a revamp of a major advertising platform and it&#8217;s a lot of work.
In the mean time check out GNU Common Lisp (CLISP) which just pushed out version 2.46 today:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/clisp/?branch_id=1341&#38;release_id=280569

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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/clisp-246-to-keep-you-busy/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft buys Powerset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The big news of the day is the MSFT aquisition of Powerset, the semantic / contextual search startup based in San Francisco.
Congrats!
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		<link>http://yousefourabi.com/blog/2008/07/microsoft-buys-powerset/</link>
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