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Tokyo Cabinet in One Hour

Presented by Kirk Haines
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at

Tokyo Cabinet is a fast, synchronous key/value database library with support for several major languages, including Ruby. We will look at both its benefits and its problems, and work through several examples that demonstrate its capabilities, ease of use from Ruby, and performance potential. At the end of the talk there will be a question and answer session.

Recent Blog Posts

My feed

By Rick Jelliffe
Nov 14, 2009 | Comments: 0

A couple of people have asked again this week for the RSS feed address for my blog. Here is is: I believe you can get the individual feeds for other bloggers on OReilly sites using the same URL and the...

Schematron and time: complex event processing?

By Rick Jelliffe
Nov 13, 2009 | Comments: 0

I have been thinking a little bit about whether Schematron's pattern approach could be applied to complex event processing where the input is a stream of discrete XML documents, for example each one being a reading from a set of...

It's in the Bag! The Apple Tablet Computing Device

By Mark Sigal
Nov 13, 2009 | Comments: 9

In the past 25 years, the 'personal' computing revolution has evolved from tethered (desktop) to luggable (portable) to joined-at-the-hip (mobile). The author argues that the next wave of computing will extend this level of personal attachment to the bag-carrying consumer (think: purses, backpacks and briefcases) when Apple releases it’s much rumored Tablet Computing Device. Read more…

How to run a creative business

By RJ Owen
Nov 13, 2009 | Comments: 2

Since moving into a quasi-management role at my current employer, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to continue fostering creativity and innovation while growing. It's a tough challenge - one that many companies get wrong and one that many people suffer because of. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings summarizes the situation and Netflix's response in this amazing slide deck. I consider it a must read for anyone who's involved in running a growing business. The Netflix approach is that sort of sheer genius that makes things so clear, concise, obvious, and simple that it seems easy, and you wonder why everyone isn't doing this. Hint: nothing valuable is ever easy.

Four short links: 13 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
Nov 13, 2009 | Comments: 1

Open Source Enters The World of Atoms -- An academic statistical analysis of open design. We indicated that, in open design communities, tangible objects can be developed in very similar fashion to software; one could even say that people treat a design as source code to a physical object and change the object via changing the source. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

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