Federico Feroldi’s blog | by Federico Feroldi
Oct
15
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LucidDB is the first and only open-source RDBMS purpose-built entirely for data warehousing and business intelligence.\n
(tags: storage sql scalability reporting opensource olap java warehousing business-intelligence database)\n
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Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.\n
(tags: web tools tool svn subversion source software scm agile code-review best-practices development)\n
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This talk shows a complete example of using open source CAD software to create a truly open design, a high-speed photography rig that is sold through the MAKE Store.\n
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In this session, Brewer will show how the combination of Ubuntu, VMware Server, and AutomateIt can make a staged deployment environment easy and inexpensive to set up.\n
(tags: virtual ubuntu sysadmin automation virtualization development process workflow best-practices staging oscon 2008 presentation)\n
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The users of today demand sleek, fast and visually rich interfaces with 3D effects and animations, and new, intuitive, touch-screen paradigms. Clutter is an OpenGL(ES)-based and LGPL-licensed toolkit from OpenedHand that meets this challenge head on.\n
(tags: ui toolkit software python programming opensource opengl linux mobile oscon 2008 presentation)\n
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Introduction – Load Testing Using Perl\n
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Technology and use cases for virtualization in Ubuntu.\n
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to internationalize your web site or application into four languages, one of which is ideographic. Whether you’re using PHP 5 or 6, the challenge is formidable. How do you do this with minimal effort, best performance, and flexibility to add more languages in the future?\n
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his presentation is primarily for system and network administrators looking for a robust, intuitive, scalable, and customizable tool for managing DHCP, DNS, IP addresses, address spaces, host information, etc. As an enterprise system, NetDB is best for networks with over several thousand hosts and multiple administrators.\n
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We’ll begin with a brief introduction to Supervisor; the benefits of running processes under it; and features like restarting failed processes, log rotation, command line control, and the web interface.\n
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Were you ever wondering what all the storage for MySQL is for? In this presentation we will review open source storage engines for MySQL, both general purpose and unique, one so you can use them in your applications and what performance properties you can expect from them.\n
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During this talk, we’ll take a look a some of my real world usage of Capistrano in my job as a web application developer and system administrator.\n
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Development methodologies are morphing from “pure†Agile to incorporate best practices from Lean and the open source world. This talk will cover various Agile mantras and explain how new technologies – including distributed version control, online collaboration and smart package management – are changing the rules about\n
(tags: tips software ideas development agile scrum git best-practices paper presentation oscon 2008)\n
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MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze, or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses; common ones include: load balancing; failover; query analysis; query filtering and modification; and many more.\n
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Just what is the state of open source software in China? And why does this matter to the larger world-wide open source community? We’ll answer these questions as we explore the nature of the Chinese culture and economy and how open source has faired in the Far East.\n
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The talk describes the following aspects of Maria\n
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DBIx::Router provides a general solution to this problem. Because it is written on top of the new DBI::Gofer system, it can be used without changes to existing code. The dispatching of queries is specified via a set of rules that allow examination of the SQL and even the data for shard routing.\n
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The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) provides scalable, fault-tolerant, and high performance data storage and retrieval for Internet scale data applications. This talk presents an overview of HDFS and then dives under the hood to look at its implementation, performance characteristics, and planned enhancements.\n
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Prophet is a new peer to peer distributed database designed to help ease the transition to post-web-2.0 applications.\n
(tags: web2.0 synchronization scalability perl p2p oss oscon 2008 distributed databases database cloudcomputing)\n
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MondoRescue is a GPL Disaster Recovery Solution. It exists since 2000. and has now matured to a global solution used both to restore systems in case of emergency as well as to deploy dozens of systems having the same or nearly the same configuration.\n
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HornetsEye is a Ruby real-time computer vision extension running under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. HornetsEye is maybe the first free software project providing a solid platform for implementing real-time computer vision software in a scripting language. The platform potentially could be used in robotic applications, industrial automation as well as in microscopy, materials science, and medical research.\n
(tags: visualization vision video software ruby robot realtime programming processing linux library)\n
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n this session, Dan York will introduce participants to the world of “voice mashups†and how applications can be quickly built on top of open source and open standards.\n
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This talk introduces the LucidDB project and gives an overview of its architecture. Besides column-store, other features covered include bitmap indexing, hash join/aggregation, page-level multiversioning, intelligent prefetch, star-join optimization, connectivity, and extensibility.\n
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HornetsEye is an extension for Y. Matsumoto’s programming language for Ruby to facilitate rapid development of machine vision software\n
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In this session, you’ll see some ways to build a management system, using the tools you already know, to do some wicked things with virtual machines. Along the way you’ll learn about the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) and some of the other emerging standards that are helping modern data centers run.\n
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PHPSecInfo is an easy to install, easy to use security auditing tool for the PHP environment.\n
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Learn about the art of writing code that writes code. In this session we will explore some of the metaprogramming techniques that make Ruby the ideal language for framework development.\n
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Shell scripts automate routine and repetitive tasks in Linux/Unix. Adding craftsmanship and style to your scripts will improve their usefulness and reliability.\n
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My Top 10 Scalability Mistakes talk updated for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in Portland, OR 2008\n
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How to speak Manager\n
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he Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) is an open source Eclipse plug-in that provides a highly integrated environment designed for the development of applications suited for parallel computer systems\n
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An introduction to Django tutorial given at OSCON, July 20h, 2008.\n
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This tutorial briefly covers some conceptual testing discussion, but quickly moves into examples of test-driven development. The language used for the examples is Perl, though the practices and tools can be applied to other programming languages.\n
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In these three hours, the participant can expect to go from a Rails web developer to a Rails hacker and manipulator, and will learn more about Ruby in the process.\n
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This talk will focus on applying principled design techniques to the design of open architectures, as demonstrated by various examples from successful open source projects.\n
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Hypertable is an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google’s Bigtable.\n
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This presentation will introduce people to bigdata—a scale-out database and computing platform.\n
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Cloudera can help you install, configure and run Hadoop for large-scale data processing and analysis. We support Hadoop whether you run it on servers in your own data center or use Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.\n
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In this article, we’ll demystify 12 javascript solutions for the most common CSS issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications.\n
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This paper describes an implementation of the Sun Lustre file system as a scalable storage cluster using Sun Fire servers, high-speed/low-latency InfiniBand interconnects, and additional networking and storage devices. Furthermore, this paper explores the use of the Sun Lustre file system at a shared government and education research site, including configuration information and details on testing that was performed on-site to evaluate the performance of Sun's scalable storage solution.\n
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Ruby Queue software package lowers the barriers scientists need to overcome in order to realize the power of Linux clusters.\n
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Oct
14
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A community for financial news, ideas, and tips\n
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In this talk I'll give some background of Google's existing hardware and software infrastructure. I'll then discuss what works well and what does not, and I'll highlight some areas where we see interesting unsolved research problems.\n
(tags: video scalability research programming machinelearning hardware grid google distributed architecture)\n
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Acquia Drupal is a collection of essential Drupal software, packaged together to build dynamic community websites faster. Engage your community today.\n
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White labeled platforms is what we offer. Social Networking, tagging, reviews, commenting, content publishing – all connected together by your customers. This is what the market is asking for – "bringing social to software" – and that's what Broadband Mechanics has.\n
(tags: web2.0 web software socialsoftware socialnetworking social platform socialnetworks business idea bestof macromedia)\n
Oct
13
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Pootle is a user-friendly web portal that makes the translation process so much simpler.\n
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The Pig tutorial shows you how to run two Pig scripts in local mode and hadoop mode.\n
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The following table lists in alphabetical order the most commonly cited programming fonts.\n
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Oct
10
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These Cacti templates extract and graph a huge variety of information about MySQL, giving you very detailed insight into your server's performance over time. The InnoDB graphing is particularly detailed.\n
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Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to store and process massive application datasets. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive resource for using Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems.\n
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I am using Eclipse and Maven for a number of Java projects. For our development we use "Run Jetty Run" to launch a Jetty servlet really quickly. I'd like to use this combo for JRuby + Rails development – leveraging many of the benefits of these tools that I've worked hard on learning.\n
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