moving

moved back to www.hird.net/stuff

Best Muppet poster ever

Via Warren Ellis flickr photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenellis/459219571/

Reading list tab dump 4. Big Web Architecture

Distributed databases and other fancy stuff people like Google and Amazon are using to scale.

A whole collection of slideshows about scaling websites

Sam Ruby: Information access patterns

Amazon job description: senior researcher for distributed systems

Hibernate Shards - distributing data across dbs

Megadata - new big data stores

Hadoop - Apache map/reduce

Running Hadoop on Amazons EC2 and S3

Reading list tab dump 3. Python

Closures in python

Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python

Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

Python testing tools

Why LXML?

pysvn programming guide

Readinglist tab dump 2. Javascript

Some revision, some tutorials, some new stuff. Lotsajavascript

A re-introduction to JavaScript

Understanding Scope and Binding in JavaScript

Simplify Ajax development with jQuery

Douglas Crockford

Private Members in JavaScript

New is bad


Googlegears and GWT

Gearpad - a googlegears notepad

GWT in action book

Community Response to Gears

Reading list tab collections 1. erlang and haskell

Everyone is getting the erlang love thing....

Sam Ruby:
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/09/Erlang-First-Impressions

http://www.erlang.org/


And Haskell. Yeah its not the same thing...

Three part OReilly series...

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html

Google Linux apt repository

Apt repository for google software:

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html