Jedi/Sector One's random thoughts - All Comments

Comment on 'Is Twitter a blog killer?' by Carl Byström

2009-09-30T13:55:44Z

I’d argue that Twitter actually makes for better blog posts. Think people tend to use blogging as an outlet of longer articles when you’ve got Twitter. Rather than spamming random short thoughts. The micro blogging format is on the other hand excellent for that kind of communication.

Comment on 'Is Twitter a blog killer?' by near

2009-09-30T13:08:25Z

twitter is good for links

an ideal blog engine would be one that permits twits and casual blog entries

Comment on 'Is Twitter a blog killer?' by Matt Franz

2009-09-20T00:57:35Z

Twitter put an end to my blogging or at least made it less frequent and caused me to writer longer blogs and just use twitter for interesting stuff..

Comment on 'Is Twitter a blog killer?' by Frank

2009-09-13T19:05:37Z

Hi Minusf,

It’s jedisct1

Comment on 'Is Twitter a blog killer?' by minusf

2009-09-13T15:20:02Z

so what’s you twitter address (you twit ;-)?

Comment on 'Application-controlled browser cache using local storage. ' by Rik

2009-09-13T11:20:47Z

Glad to see you used this XHR hack. You should catch QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR exceptions add checks for the localStorage object.

The Storage can be inactive or deleted after use. Browsers porn mode do that. Either they disallow writing or writes in a temporary storage that is cleared later. No problem since your solution fallbacks on HTTP caching but worth mentioning.

Another detail, the spec says “User agents may automatically delete stored data after a period of time.” I don’t think browsers do that at the moment but they could.

And there’s also a security threat if you’re on a shared domain (like free.fr). Other authors could write code in your localstorage and you would eval it.

But otherwise, it’s a good improvement for JavaScript powered apps.

Comment on 'Hardening MacOSX against the Java vulnerability' by otto

2009-05-27T14:10:22Z

Where can I find the sdk src.zip? I looked on this page: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp but the ‘J2SE 5.0 JDK Source Code’ package seems to have very old code and the linux jdk file was downloaded as a bin file that I’m not sure what to do with.

Comment on 'Ubuntu Jaunty: made on MacOSX with Photoshop' by JeanMary

2009-04-25T19:42:03Z

arf je dirais.. surtout qu’il est moyen ce background.. C le seul de la derniere serie qui mets pas en avant la bestiole.. obliger de chercher sur https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/ pour en trouver avec la bestiole legendaire

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Daniël Boone

2009-04-22T08:49:03Z

Hello Frank

Is it possible to put the links to each project?

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Frank

2009-04-19T21:51:56Z

Hello Chris,

Thanks a lot for the link to LuxIO. I didn’t know about the Lux search engine either. Thank you for the discoveries.

I’ll have to do another roundup of SQL-free databases.

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Chris Gahan

2009-04-19T21:31:09Z

Here’s another worthy database that you missed: LuxIO

Fast indexed retrieval (B+-tree, Array)
Support both cluster and non-cluster index
mmap(2) the whole index structure in cluster index
2 ways in data management in non-cluster index (Linked and Padded)
- Linked mode for large expanding data
- Padded mode for less likely expanding data

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Frank

2009-04-19T19:01:34Z

Hello Mike, and congratulations for your work on MongoDB. I gave it a try a week ago, and it looks like a winner. However, the sharding server was completely unuseable, it used to crash (still listening to TCP connections, but not answering any more) at the first request. But I know that this part is still an on-progress work. Good luck! MongoDB can really be a CouchDB killer.

Antirez: nice to meet you, and thanks for posting on my blog :) Redis rocks, but I’m not convinced by 100% client-side sharding. First because it’s not API-agnostic. Next, what exactly happens when nodes are added to the ring? Does the current data set get redispatched according to the new number of servers? I can’t imagine how such a migration (that might take a long time) could be handled by a client library, especially with APIs like PHP (no application server, no background tasks). And once the ring changes, how does it track which data is still on the previous ring? I might be wrong (or just influenced by other software like MogileFS and Flare, but I’m quite convinced that such a task belongs to either the database servers themselves, or to another daemon.

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by antirez

2009-04-19T08:28:13Z

Hello! I’m the author of Redis. Thank you very much for the article. I want just to add that sharding can be done, it’s just up to the client library. For example the Ruby library supports consistent hashing, it’s just a matter of specifying multiple servers and the keys will be distributed across the different servers.

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Mike Dirolf

2009-04-18T22:34:35Z

I work on MongoDB and definitely think you should give it a shot – glad to help if you have any questions.

Comment on 'An overview of modern SQL-free databases' by Frank

2009-04-18T20:13:46Z

By the way, Cloudkit ( http://getcloudkit.com/ ) can also be an option for some needs.