Entries from May 2008

May 28, 2008

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: How Me Breaking Up With You Is Like Jon Lester Pitching a No-Hitter Against the Royals.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: How Me Breaking Up With You Is Like Jon Lester Pitching a No-Hitter Against the Royals.
Well, listen, judging by all the phone messages you’ve left, it seems like you’re having some problems dealing with this. No, I’m not going to call you back, but I do hope this e-mail brings you some [...]

May 27, 2008

PHP Shopping Cart Software

PHP Shopping Cart Software | eCommerce Website Solution| Storefront Design | Application Development | Online Store Builder
Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and web site builder application.

May 27, 2008

HadoopMapReduce

HadoopMapReduce – Hadoop Wiki

May 27, 2008

Hbase

Hbase – Hadoop Wiki
Just as Google’s [WWW] Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the [WWW] Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop Core. Data is organized into tables, rows and columns. An Iterator-like interface is available for scanning through a row range (and of course there is the ability [...]

May 27, 2008

Hadoop

Hadoop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apache Hadoop is a Free Java software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers. [1] It enables applications to easily scale out to thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

May 27, 2008

56 geeks poster complete

Flickr Photo Download: 56 geeks poster complete

May 27, 2008

Student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

TheRecord.com – CanadaWorld – WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

May 27, 2008

Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer

Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer – CNN.com

May 27, 2008

In Pictures: 10 Games To Make You Sweat

In Pictures: 10 Games To Make You Sweat – Forbes.com

May 22, 2008

Hugh Roper: Illustrator Starburst Rays

Hugh Roper: Illustrator Starburst Rays
This tip is an oldie but a goodie, originally posted here in 2004. How to create illustrator rays that taper outward. This is easily done (with Illustrator) in a few simple steps.