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Introduction to Gearman

Presented by Eric Day
Friday, March 12, 2010 at

Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use--from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster.

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Gov 2.0 invades Harvard: A report from #gov20ne

By James Turner
March 10, 2010

Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 Evangelist) was one of the organizers.

echotracker as an aggregation tool for different user integrations

By Andy Oram
March 10, 2010

A developer preview was just released of a new open source tool called echotracker that aims to collect interesting information about the people you communicate with and present it to you as you're reading your email.

We're about to scratch the real-world data itch

By Mac Slocum
March 10, 2010

Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? What if they could use that information to entice customers and adapt their offerings? Mobile location tools are poised to make this possible.

Four short links: 10 March 2010

By Nat Torkington
March 10, 2010

The Future of Book Publishing Business Models (Stephen Walli) -- some good thoughts about the book publishing industry and ebooks. When does Amazon create the iPhone/Android app and the programme that will allow bookstores to receive a cut of every Kindle edition they sell? I scan the book's in-store barcode with my smartphone, and I get the Kindle edition...

360|Flex Day 2 Recap

By RJ Owen
March 10, 2010

Day 2 is here and gone. In this entry I'll talk about some of the highlights of the talks I attended and good things I've learned during the presentations.

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