Marcel Neuhausler's World

I just finished the first release of my PCM (personal content management system). The system I built uses CouchDB, SimpleDB, and a few servlets written in Java to listen, store, aggregate, and publish all the content I produce on Twitter, delicious, NyTimes People, this blog, and other sites. The nice thing, I can still use the regular interface of all those sites to enter content, while in the background my system is gathering that content automatically. That content then gets stored twice, in a local database and in the "Amazon cloud". From where the content then gets published to the ticker page in my new blog: Neuhäusler Weekly.

.. and of course I already have a ton of ideas how I could improve the system :-) ..

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Using Cassandra with Scala and Akka: "With all this talk about NoSQL and new programming languages, I though I’d try getting Cassandra to work with Scala. Always being interested in productivity, I wanted to know how easy and concise an integration would be."

..via Code Monkeyism..

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eZ430-Chronos: "The world's first customizable development environment within a sports watch ... Priced at $49, Chronos is designed to provide all of the hardware and software needed to immediately begin development of wireless applications.."

.. the ultimate gift for a geek ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 08:58 AM | Permalink

Different Hadoop releated links:

Slides of Hadoop World in NYC, "Cascading is a feature rich API for defining and executing complex, scale-free, and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster", and a library to aid writing Hadoop jobs in Clojure.

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:10 PM | Permalink

"The best way to implement joins with BigTable is: don't. You--pause for dramatic effect--duplicate data instead of normalize it. *shudder*"

.. it so reminds me of Lotus Notes .. but it all makes sense now ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 08:49 PM | Permalink

"Noop (pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction) is a new language experiment that attempts to blend the best lessons of languages old and new, while syntactically encouraging what we believe to be good coding practices and discouraging the worst offenses. Noop is initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine."

.. no subclassing but dependency injection .. based on the jvm and scala .. interesting ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:15 PM | Permalink

.. SQL still needed? .. I believe so .. but there are new database systems/concepts showing up in the Web2.0 space .. "braindump: NOSQL debrief" and "Notes from the NoSQL Meetup" ..

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