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java keyword challenge

17 February 2009

Found this C++ coding exercise on twitter this morning: Write a standards-conforming C++ program containing a sequence of at least ten different consecutive keywords not separated by identifiers, operators, punctutation characters, etc.

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hadoop job visualization

28 January 2009

Last week we had our first hack day at bizo.

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Is a Square a Rectangle?

13 January 2009

Is a Square a Rectangle?

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From the productivity improvement department...

17 December 2008

As a software developer, one of the things I rely upon to get the job done is autocomplete. It is a feature I use every day whether that be in the bash shell or Eclipse. The bottom line is that autocomplete saves keystrokes, and, therefore helps me get the job done just a little bit faster. Autocomplete is a close second to sliced bread.

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Open Source Simple DB Firefox Plugin: SDB Tool

15 December 2008

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pointer fun

24 November 2008

Pointer fun with Binky.

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hadoop s3 integration not quite there

19 November 2008

We rely pretty heavily on hadoop for processing lots of log data. It's a really great project and a critical part of our infrastructure.

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Try not to crash the IDE...

18 November 2008

We use Eclipse as our IDE. We also use Ruby pretty extensively; we do all of our deployments and configuration using Capistrano.

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Video Standups Rock

14 November 2008

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disk write performance on amazon ec2

3 November 2008

For a few different projects here at Bizo, we've relied on Berkeley DB. For key/value storage and lookup, it's incredibly fast.

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