All Things Distributed

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Storing and querying datasets that contain objects in a geometric space have always required special treatment. The choice of data structures and query algorithms can easily make the different between a query that runs in seconds or in days. Much of the fundamental work has been done in the late eighties and early nineties, for examples around topological relations (disjoint, meet, equal, overlap, contains, etc.), direction relations (north, north-east, etc.) and distance relations (far, near),

Database 90

Database Systems 90

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

The founder's optimism far exceeded his customer's interest. His aggressive expansion vapourized the cash he raised to start up the business. His options were to sell or liquidate. The firm that bought them was a multi-line company of online advertising & e-commerce driven businesses. The new owners set about trying to make their new acquisition profitable.

Processing 40

Processing Code Innovation Development 40

Nick Desaulniers

AUGUST 27, 2013

Node.js is a great runtime for writing applications in JavaScript, the language I primarily develop in. CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Why would we write a reusable piece of code, a module , in CoffeeScript? CoffeeScript is a very high level language and beautifully brings together my favorite aspects of JavaScript, Ruby, and Python.

Open Source 40

Open Source Programming Code Development 40