I’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’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&release_id=280569
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I just stumbled across HiveDB an open source project that allows horizontal partitioning (sharding) for MySQL…
Check it out: http://www.hivedb.org/
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it looks like Django 1.0 will be released this september, from the django blog:
We’ve just published a roadmap and schedule that brings us to a 1.0 release on September 2nd, 2008.
The big feature will be merging the newforms-admin work into trunk… awesome, can’t wait.
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The next release of Hadoop (0.18) will likely have Java6 has a requirement, thus forcing the Hbase project to adpot the same requirement. The current Hbase release is 0.12, and this will probably only affect 0.3, so it’s a ways off — just be ready.
Here is the HBase Jira issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-636
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I’m really about to geek out on you — I’m going to (complain) compare the Google App Engine configuration file (app.yaml) to the Django setting.py.
Simon Wilson of OpenID and django-openid fame wrote a post on logging in Django and got me thinking a long these lines.
App.yaml sucks. Why? Because it’s not really “pythonic” and [...]
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Django Developer (and the man behind djangosnippets.com) posts his view of the “must have” list to work towards for Django 1.0
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/c2be209a9f10ff30
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The Django team has knocked off one of the milestones for the 1.0 release — Changeset 7477 merges the queryset refactoring effort into django-trunk.
The goal of the queryset-refactor branch was to add a layer of special sauce to the Django ORM and make it easier (possible?) to (among other things) have model inheritance.
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Jan Rain, the company behind MyOpenID has released an ajaxy/html widget for sites that takes care of the front end integration called the “ID Selector”
To get an overview of the bigger openid brokers out there check out: provider comparison
Simon Wilson one of the OpenID developers and Evangelists put together a django project called django-openid that [...]
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Here is the link to the main annoncement page, and below you’ll find links to the projects I care about the most
Summer of Code 2008
Django
PHP
Apache Software Foundation
MacPorts
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Spock Proxy , developed at Spock.com seems like a mysql-proxy work-alike except that it makes sharding or horizontal partitioning of the database easy and transparent (or at least that is the idea).
The Spock Proxy project page mentions that Spoke is built on Rails, and ActiveRecord, but from the description it seems like this could be [...]
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Update: It’s very clear to me that the Google App Engine is modeled after Django… See below
Huge win for Django! It will be interesting to see how this plays out on one hand you have heroku the all in one IDE/Enviroment for Ruby On Rails that is backed by Amazon AWS and auto-deploys for [...]
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I was seriously considering going to PyCon this year — i’ve got a buddy in Chicago that I’ve been meaning to catch up with — I’m really glad I decided to pass this year.
This post from Bruce Eckle is floating around: PyCon disappointment
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Don Brown a software engineer with atlassian the company behind Jira — has decided enough time has gone by without his complains of Maven being addressed — and has forked his own maven build.
A lot of proposed changes are around increasing the time it takes to download build dependencies, mixing the location of build requirements [...]
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All UNIX-like systems come with a ‘ps’ utility which displays the processes running — however any java application will just show up as the ‘java’ process since everything runes in the java vm.
If you are looking for insight into the processes inside a java virtual machine try: “jps” — which will print a list of [...]
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I’ve got a few Ubuntu systems lying around, and I’ve recently started playing around with Apache Hadoop.
I had several versions of the jdk installed including the one I wanted “sun-java6-jdk” however the gcj one was the default system.
There are two steps required to change the default JVM.
1) Edit /etc/jvm, and make sure the desired JVM [...]
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Quick note:
hBase is hadoop’s answer to google’s big table — it is a massively parallel, distributed database. It’s now being promoted to its own project (on the same level as hadoop).
This is totally cool, and as the tools around hdfs and hBase improve we’ll see a whole generation of new startups built around these frameworks [...]
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It has been a good holiday season for the ruby crowd. Frirst rails 2.0 was released and now ruby 1.9 which is supposed to have some impressive speed improvements.
Download links here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/136553
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Apple has released a new developer preview for Java 1.6 on Leopard. It’s a bit late in the game to still be releasing developer previews I think. The download is available on the Apple Developer Connect (ADC) website here: http://developer.apple.com/java/
In other news TCL/Tk 8.5 has been released. Get yours fresh here: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
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Ah! I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon the package page for solr in the “testing” branch. Although I’m not sure how practical it will be unless the urses based installer prompts your for the docBase and web-app name you want to use to create the correct Context xml snippet and place it in Catalina/localhost [...]
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SOLR, “Searching On Lucene with Replication” which started out life at CNET, before it was released to the open source community comes with a solid example configuration using the Jetty embeded servlet container.
Getting SOLR running on Debian GNU/Linux with Tomcat in production environments can be a tad tricker. If you just unpacked the dist/solr.war into [...]
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