079 TMTC Peter Ledbrook – VMWare, Groovy, Grails

by woody2shoes on January 13, 2012

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Peter Ledbrook is an engineer at VMWare and an evangalist for Groovy and Grails.

Discussion

Peter also gave me these links via email for people to look at:

Groovy website:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Documentation

Online Groovy console:

http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/

Groovy Blogs:

http://groovyblogs.org/

Grails user guide:

http://grails.org/doc/latest/

Free PDF book!

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/grails-getting-started

Introductory screencasts:

http://grails.org/screencast/search/?tag=gswg

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078 TMTC Chris Mattmann – OODT/NASA

by woody2shoes on December 30, 2011

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Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA’s JPL. He’s the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC.

OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds of thousands of job in a day and terabytes or petabytes of data from various sources.

Mentioned in this episode:

  • Apache OODT
  • Nutch
  • Hadoop
  • Apache Software Foundation
  • NASA
  • NASA JPL
  • ftp
  • sftp
  • Solr
  • Lucene
  • Hive
  • File Catalog vs Search Engine
  • Tika
  • Goodle
  • Project Management was the hard part
  • Assume that failure happens and recover quickly
  • Ganglia
  • Torque
  • PBS
  • struts
  • IDL
  • CHLA (Childrens Hospital of LA)
  • VPICU
  • OODT Contact page (info on mailing lists, etc.)

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077 TMTC Karl Wright – ManifoldCF

by woody2shoes on December 23, 2011

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Today I am joined by Karl Wright, Nokia engineer, ManifoldCF developer and author of ManifoldCF in action. We discuss ManifoldCF, an Apache Incubator project, its beginnings, its purpose and its inner workings.

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Upgrading JotRod to Rails 3.1.3

by woody2shoes on December 9, 2011

When preparing to add some layout features to JotRod, I realized it was a Rails 3.0.9 application. Here’s a quick rundown on upgrading to Rails 3.1.3.

Download 164.7 MB
Download (iPod & iPhone) 37.9 MB
Take the 2011 Readers Survey

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076 TMTC Pranta Das and Bhaskar Sunkara (AppDynamics)

by woody2shoes on December 9, 2011

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AppDynamics is a company that provides a monitoring solution for .NET and Java platforms. I spoke with the VP of Engineering and one of the developers of the AppDynamics platform to dig into how they instrument your Java or .NET code and some of the tricks for following transactions from beginning to end.

There were a lot of neat tricks in this podcast episode

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Followers and Following

December 3, 2011

In order to get someone a timeline in JotRod, we need followers and following lists to compile the Jots from. This means that we need to add a new ColumnFamily called Followers and another one called Following. We don’t have the joins capability from relational databases to do this for us. I’m going to hijack [...]

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075 TMTC Jim Jagielski – Apache Software Foundation

November 18, 2011

Jim Jagielski is the president of the Apache Software Foundation and works for Red Hat. He’s a founding member of the Foundation and has been a developer on the HTTP server for over a decade. We had an inspiring conversation about the Apache Software Foundation, the origins of the HTTP server, how the Foundation manages [...]

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074 TMTC Jonathan Ellis – Cassandra

November 10, 2011

Jonathan Ellis is the Project Chair of Cassandra and co-founder of DataStax,  a company that specializes in helping companies set up BigData stacks with Cassandra, Hadoop, and other open source software. His company just released DataStax Enterprise. We had a great discussion about the origins of Cassandra, what it’s good at, how it stacks up [...]

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ActiveModel Callbacks

November 9, 2011

In the Jots (like tweets) in JotRod, I needed to generate a hash on creation as the key for the Jots. So, I determined that the easiest way to do that was to include ActiveModel Callbacks. The module is pretty simple to add to your classes. Here’s a demo of how to add it to [...]

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073 TMTC Grant Ingersoll – Lucene & Solr

November 3, 2011

Lucene is a terrific tool for powering searches. Solr adds a layer of functionality on top of it that makes things even more easy to use. In this interview, Grant and I discuss the ins and outs of using Lucene to power searches on your websites.

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