remarkably on topic for reddit

further evidence of the end of optical meda - sony drops umd. going by the form factor a war between music players, phones and consoles can only be a few years away

git as a backbone for rolling out code. It makes sense, having done simple deploys with mercurial

lots of people over on businessinsider not getting it.

Must have have read this a dozen times now, and still can't find a flaw in James' argument that jax-rs is more than good enough for websites too. Everything else starts to look very complicated after you code some JAX-RS.

Hadoop and Cloudera mentioned along with the usual suspects

terracotta still in the replicated session sweet spot, but think it can do more than that. wish it had actors/message passing instead of shared heap

get a bucket. put something in the bucket. get an acl. set the acl. nice

"the intended audience for this FAQ is a shell/perl hacker who writes or maintains local build scripts and wants to integrate Perforce into them." - wrap p4 more likely; the world needs a p4ng client

"Let’s parse that out. XMPP is fast. XMPP is secure. XMPP is extensible." - wave over xmpp is great news. the future just got more evenly distributed

Zed: "Almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second response on average, but a 60 second standard deviation! This was the query. I made a chart of all the different queries, marched into a meeting, slapped them on the table and said, 'It’s not the database'"

another datacenter api; not sure this one scales out as well as sun's (there's a *lot* of calls), but interested to see that Data APIs are spreading beyond Web2.0

nice :)

Isn't actually about semantics, so I guess RDFa is out of the question

"Guice works with Java SE, Java EE, Google App Engine, Android, and even Google Web Toolkit "

What's the lesson? Don't embed actions in URLs.

"You want to be able to grow the language into domains that you particularly care about. "

saw tom ilube present years ago when agents were the thing; excellent speaker