Saturday, January 05, 2013

An update on Pi work

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After a few interactions with people on the twitter-verse and writing the blog about building MongoDB for the Pi , I decided that it was pro...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Adventures in Pi Land Part Two

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In the first part of this blog we looked at the initial setup of the Raspberry Pi. In this one we'll look first at building and running...
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Adventures in Pi Land Part One

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Over this Christmas vacation I set myself a number of pet projects that I'd normally not have time to do during the rest of the year. Ov...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Thunderbirds are go!

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Over the year a number of people who were influential in my life have died. So it's with great sadness that I just heard that Gerry Ande...
Monday, December 24, 2012

A busy busy year

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I'm on holiday and for the first time in about 6 months I have some time to reflect on the past year. And one word sums it up: busy. One...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Farewell Kohei

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I was shocked earlier this week when I found out that Kohei Honda passed away suddenly . I've known Kohei personally for a few years bu...

Farewell Sir Patrick Moore

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I haven't blogged for a while because I haven't really had time or the inclination to do so. However, when I saw that Sir Patrick Mo...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Cloud and Shannon's Limit

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I've been on the road (or air) so much over the past few months that some things I had thought I'd blogged about turn out to be eith...
Friday, October 26, 2012

NoSQL and transactions

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I've been thinking about ACID and non-ACID transactions for a number of years. I've spent almost as long working in the industry an...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Travel woes

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I've been doing a lot of international travel in the last few weeks, with more to come. It can be annoying at times on flights, what wit...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Coming or going?

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I've been dreading September because it represents the busiest travel schedule that I can recall having for many years. After this week ...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Farewell Neil Armstrong

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As soon as I heard about the death of Neil Armstrong I felt like I had to say something: But I wanted to say a bit more. I was only 3 ...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

JavaOne 2012

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I just got my schedule for JavaOne and was also informed that I'll be on their "Featured Speaker" carousel at the top of the J...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Tower of Babel

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I've been spending the weekend stripping my garage ready for it to be demolished: we're having an extension built which means a new ...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Gossip and Twitter

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I had to explain gossip protocols to a group of students the other day. Now in the past when I've done this I've gone through some w...

HP missed the Android boat

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I'm just back from my annual vacation to visit the in-laws in Canada. Apart from the usual things I do there, such as fishing, diving an...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Worried about Big Data

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I've been spending quite a lot of time thinking about Big Data over the past year or two and I'm seeing a worrying trend. I unders...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Software engineering and passion

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I was speaking with some 16 year old students from my old school recently and one of them told me that he wanted to go to university to bec...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

When did we stop remembering?

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Over the past year or so I've been reading articles and papers, or watching recorded presentations, on fault tolerance and distributed s...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Jim Gray

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It's been over 5 years since I first blogged about Jim going missing at sea . At each subsequent HPTS we've had a few things to sa...