Not to uhh... take credit for this brilliant comic or anything but uhh... this was my suggestion for a comic last week :D

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What is ErlSDB?

ErlSDB is an Erlang library to access Amazon's SimpleDB web service. It uses REST APIs to access SimpleDB service and is built on top OTP.
What is SimpleDB?

SimpleDB is Amazon's web service that provides persistence service for storing or querying a collection of key/value pairs. A collection of key/value pair is called an item, which is similar to row in relational database. However, unlike relation database you can store varying number of key/values. These items are in turn stored in domains which provide a naming scope.

I need to learn Erlang.

erlsdb - Google Code

"If programming languages were religions"
(Inspired by "If programming languages were cars")

C would be Judaism - it's old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can't convert into it - you're either into it from the start, or you will think that it's insanity. Also, when things go wrong, many people are willing to blame the problems of the world on it.

Another gold star. Two in a week.

Now I know why Java guys annoy me in the same way as fundies...

Aegisub: If programming languages were religions...

SimpleDB now lets you: SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo.field DESC LIMIT 1

This is important, because that is a very common query to get the latest/last item from the DB and you could not do it before.

My next project will be using SimpleDB. I've played with it, and SQS, and the inability to do that last query was the holdup.

SimpleDB is now a viable choice for many applications.

Follow-up: SimpleDB's perl library does not function as of this release.

FAIL WHALE

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon SimpleDB - Now With Select

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Welcome to ShotPut Ventures (SPV). We are a technology startup accelerator fund that focuses on capital-light web services companies and assists in the conception phase.

We invest $5,000 per team and $5,000 per founder as part of a coordinated program that will have eight companies in the summer of 2009.

There is already money committed - Atlanta is getting a Y-Combinator clone this summer!

Amazing. Monumental. Newsworthy.

Gold star. Five gold stars.

Welcome - Shotput Ventures - ATLANTA GETS A Y-COMBINATOR CLONE THIS SUMMER!

Like most System Engineers at Sun, I'm often called upon to demonstrate Sun's technology especially Solaris 10 and Sun Ray thin clients. In the past, demonstrating Sun Rays meant bringing a customer into our Sun office OR setting up a network server and device at the customer's location.

To make this much easier, I decided to follow the example of others and turn my Sun issued MacBook Pro into a Sun Ray server. As a result of this configuration, I can set two devices on my customer's desk with only one ethernet cord and no power cords (have to keep those batteries charged) to display the power of the Sun Ray thin client. I also have a configuration (thanks to Matt) the provides a multi-level Solaris environment via Solaris 10 Trusted Extensions along with the ability to display an MS Windows desktop using Win2003 running in a separate virtual machine on the same Mac. Very Cool!

Thinking about getting a Mac Pro and working on a SunRay notebook terminal.

Using your Mac as a Sun Ray server : Jim Laurent's Weblog

There are "better" languages than Perl — hell, there are lots of them, if you define "better" as "not being insane". Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, gosh, I could probably name 20 or 30 languages that are "better" than Perl, inasmuch as they don't look like that Sperm Whale that exploded in the streets of Taiwan over the summer. Whale guts everywhere, covering cars, motorcycles, pedestrians. That's Perl. It's charming, really.

But Perl has many, many things going for it that, until recently, no other language had, and they compensated for its exo-intestinal qualities. You can make all sorts of useful things out of exploded whale, including perfume. It's quite useful. And so is Perl.

Funny.

Stevey's Home Page - Tour de Babel 

While every modern president has implemented last-minute regulations, Bush is rolling them out at a record pace — nearly twice as many as Clinton, and five times more than Reagan. "The administration is handing out final favors to its friends," says Véronique de Rugy, a scholar at George Mason University who has tracked six decades of midnight regulations. "They couldn't do it earlier — there would have been too many political repercussions. But with the Republicans having lost seats in Congress and the presidency changing parties, Bush has nothing left to lose."

Bush's Final F.U. : Rolling Stone

The first step would be to quit letting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham set its agenda.

A second step would be for congressional Republicans to actually try to help President-elect Barack Obama succeed in addressing the country's dire problems – offering better ideas where appropriate and opposing just when necessary, not reflexively. null

Referenced by Colin Powell in recent CNN interview.

GOP recovery: Fire Rush Limbaugh | The San Diego Union-Tribune