A Cassandra twitter clone
Following my successful Cassandra Cluster setup and having a potential client example to work with running Ruby On Rails (RoR), I came across the following examples in Ruby. up and running with cassandra Twissandra Not being a ruby developer, I thought it was time to investigate further.
Read moreGetting started with Cassandra
With the motivation from today’s public news on Twitter’s move from MySQL to Cassandra , my own skills desire following in-depth discussions at last November’s Open SQL Camp to consider Cassandra and yesterday’s discussion with a new client on persistent key-value store products, today I download installed and configured for the first time.
Read moreO’Reilly Twitter Boot Camp a success
The first O’Reilly Twitter Boot Camp – #OTBC was held in New York as a pre cursor to 140 Characters Conference – #140conf on Monday 15th June, 2009. With opening and closing keynotes were like matching bookends of The Twitter Book #twitterbook offered to all attendees and authored by the keynoters @timoreilly and @SarahM .
Read moreLeveraging the power of Twitter
Last week I posted the following twitter request — “Can somebody loan me (or buy me) a Dell 2950 decked out so I can run and publish some benchmarks. Please!”
Read moreNY Tech 1995-2008. Opening Web 2.0 Expo NY Keynote
Web 2.0 Expo NY keynotes are happening today. Technology in use included CrowdVine which I’d not heard of, and plenty of Twitter feeds such as w2e_NY08 . The opening keynote was Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures with his presentation New York’s Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent .
Read moreInteresting site of the day
TwitHire – For those employers that both have Twitter accounts and time to advertise a job in 140 characters or less. There should be a website that is devoted to everything based on Twitter.
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