In this post I describe why I like Riak and how I made use of it at my day job with AOL.
Another "year of scripting" related post. In it, I describe how I piped together ls, sort, and awk to correct the sort order of my blog index.
Part of my "year of scripting" theme. This post describes one method to pull a set of random lines from a file using a BASH script.
It's "The Summer of George" only less funny and hopefully more productive [^1]. I've always been at arms length with scripting, kind of a love-hate relationship. Over the last year that relationship has tipped more towards the balance of love, and I want to walk about why.
Ever search Google for ways to decode JSON in Erlang only to come out feeling dirty on the other end? Are you sick of writing cryptic patterns to pull out a value only a few levels deep? Does the thought of pulling apart a deeply nested JSON object in Erlang make you wince? Wouldn't it be nice if you could access JSON in Erlang as easily and succinctly as you do in JavaScript? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you'll want to read further.
This is a brain dump of Surge 2010--a conference focusing on scalable systems. Particularly, the focus was on web systems. While the talks covered many different technologies and solutions I noticed some recurring, general themes among many of them.
This is my solution to exercise 4-1 from the book Erlang Programming. A blog has to start somewhere, and this is mine.