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Average Environments Beget Average Work

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

David wrote this on Jul 28 2008

Grady Booch delivered the following axiom at BrainstormTECH last week: “The average work of the average worker is average”. At first, it sounded perfectly rational. But on second take, I got really bothered by this. It’s based on an assumption of bad, average, and good as being static attributes of a person that I find whole fully offensive and narrow minded. In my experience, we’re all capable of bad, average, and good work. I’ve certainly done bad work at times and plenty of average work. What I’ve realized is that the good and the exceptional work is at least as much about my environment as it is about me. Average environments begets average work. Good people…

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Raspberry Pi Clones Match the Connectors, But Boost the Firepower

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Ever since the Raspberry Pi burst onto the scene in 2012, open source hardware projects have been promoting their Linux-ready hacker boards as offering faster, more capable alternatives. Considering the Pi’s 700MHz ARM11 processor and relatively modest feature set, that’s not such a stretch, but matching the $35 price is another story. If you can’t match the price, what you really need to get the attention of Pi-lovers looking for a bit more oomph is to look and act like a Pi. That’s the strategy of two new Raspberry Pi clones: Lemaker.org’s Banana Pi and SolidRun’s HummingBoard. The two SBCs closely approximate the size, I/O, and port placement of the RasPi. They also provide identical 26-pin expansion headers to support RasPi add-on modules. …

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SEO Today – A Brief Overview Infographic

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

What do penguins, pandas and hummingbirds remind you of? If you own a blog or a website, these are the “animal” updates to Google’s algorithm that help mold the state of content you see online today. So much can be said in regards to SEO that you’d probably be able to fill countless books with the information available. IDF Marketing has produced an infographic that touches briefly on the ever-evolving state of SEO today. Check out the influence On Site Factors, the strength of your Content, Outreach and Social Signals have on your site’s SEO. Should you go with video instead of articles? What about infographics instead of blog posts to secure high ranking and/or higher traffic? Find out about this and…

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Minicron – Manage and Monitor Cron Jobs

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

25 Apr

Minicron – Manage and Monitor Cron Jobs GPL License, Stats Leave a Comment Minicron aims to complement cron by making it easier to manage and monitor cron jobs, it can largely be thought of as two components that interact together, the CLI and the Hub. The CLI is what is installed on your server(s) and executes your cron command and reports the status back to the Hub. The Hub is the central point where data from one or many instances of the CLI is received and stored in a database. The Hub also provides a web interface to the data and makes it easy to manage your cron jobs. Requirements: – Demo: http://jamesrwhite.github.io/minicron/ License: GPL v3 License Share Tweet Sponsors subscribe to our…

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What is Apache Tez?

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You might have heard of Apache Tez, a new distributed execution framework that is targeted towards data-processing applications on Hadoop. But what exactly is it? How does it work? Who should use it and why? In their presentation, Apache Tez: Accelerating Hadoop Query Processing, Bikas Saha and Arun Murthy discuss Tez’s design, highlight some of its features and share some of the initial results obtained by making Hive use Tez instead of MapReduce. Presentation transcript edited by Roopesh Shenoy Tez generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to a more powerful framework based on expressing computations as a dataflow graph. Tez is not meant directly for end-users – in fact it enables developers to build end-user applications with much better performance and flexibility. Hadoop has …

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