Archive for January, 2008

MapReduce je loš i neskalabilan RDBMS

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Maa da. Neki RDBMS stručnjaci su se sjetili kritizirati MapReduce algoritam (i njegovu implementaciju u Googleu), navodeći kako je on suboptimalan za RDBMS stvari. I fulali ceo fudbal. Naime, dok su s jedne stvari njihove kritike sasvim točne, s druge strane skroz zaboravljaju da postoje i primjene u kojima relacijske baze nisu najbolji ...

Connecting to AIM/ICQ with telepathy-gabble

Friday, January 18th, 2008

...is possible starting from today, because AOL seems to have implemented official XMPPAIM bridge! I don't have the link to the official anouncement (if there is any), and got the good news via Florian Jensen's Weblog. It's great to see XMPP getting more and more acknowledge as the de-facto standard IM ...

Screencastanje pomoću GStreamera - oneliner

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Trebao sam ovih dana napraviti neki screencast. Nakon malo traženja na netu, naišao sam na zgodni Istanbul (i nešto manje zgodni Byzanz - dobra stvar je što napravi GIF animaciju screencasta, loša stvar je što se većina viewera ruši na multi-megabajtnim GIF datotekama :), no iz nekog razloga i Istanbul, ...

Outsourceanje jeftinim Indijcima^WHrvatima

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Viđeno na TechCrunchu: Naturally it’s a cost thing. I spoke to one startup CEO last year who hired five programmers in India who had PhD level qualifications for $45,000 a year each, and the company he used to hire these guys came with a long list of US, English and Australian ...