Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon's cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version.

from Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution.

WinRun4j is a java launcher for windows. It is an alternative to javaw.exe and provides the following benefits:

• Uses an INI file for specifying classpath, main class, vm args, program args.

  
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Often Customers require a way of ordering columns of small html table. This JQuery plugin offer a fast, and nice solution:

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Hi World. I didn’t lost a bit of  grip on edge news, altrought now I am married!

In the first days of May we read about a new serach engine, called WolframAlpha.

The idea behind WolframAlpha are interesting, so we will take a close look to it.

Slashdot is following the engine very tightly (“Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera”, published  on May 16) ans so will do Gioorgi.com.

[UPDATED! Google Squared is out of there!!]

First published on May 18th, 2009

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ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.

via ack – better than grep, a power search tool for programmers.

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Working for a very big customer, I found a very nasty interaction between Sun HttpClient (JDK 1.4) and Http  Load Balancers.

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Sometimes Eclipse Ganymede will not run if it is unable to find a jdk 1.5 or greater.

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HttpFox

An HTTP analyzer addon for Firefox

Some times ago I have the lucky to read  "Producing Open Source Software":

[...] a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it [...]

Valuable parts, which we suggest to read:

• Social Infrastructure
• Communications
• Managing Volunteers

Open source is a value, especially here in Italy, where the small consulting firms have no time/ no hope of developing strong commercial reality.

Open source so can be a way for a cheap investiment.

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=== JRecordBind ===

A tiny and super fast library that aims to

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