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LLVM 2.7
LLVM continues it’s quiet ascent. It now has two jdks, two clis, python (and by that I mean the real python), ruby and php running on it. Not bad for a compiler / runtime who’s main goal is to be apple’s main compiler for static languages (C, C++ and Objective C).
Ignore at your peril.
WebFinger, OAuth and Freebusy lookups
One of the more frustrating aspects of calendaring systems is that the freebusy lookups are all proprietary. Meeting invitations can be sent from one system to another (assuming you know a time to meet). However, it is not possible to lookup when someone from Lotuslive, someone from gmail and someone from Yahoo are all available [...]
Hardware assisted virtualization – aka xen, kvm and ec2
Hardware-assisted virtualization: Hardware-assisted virtualization was first introduced on the IBM System/370 in 1972, for use with VM/370, the first virtual machine operating system. Virtualization was eclipsed in the late 1970s, with the advent of minicomputers that allowed for efficient timesharing,George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
My first I.T. job [...]
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Werner Vogels: Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current “Spot Price.” Spot Instances are ideal for tasks that can be flexible as to when [...]
Google Go
Ask and you shall receive :)
I have no doubt that it is fast. I just wonder if folks will like it.
The argument AGAINST virtualization
Matt Heaton: ‘While virtualization techniques have improved dramatically in the last
10 years (Think 3D support, para-virtualization for direct access to
the hardware layer, etc) there is a fundamental problem with the whole
concept of virtualization that no one ever talks about.’
I don’t know why this isn’t getting more attention. You can cram a lot of shared hosts [...]
Unladen Swallow, a Hummer Hybrid?
One of the projects that I keep an eye on is LLVM. In a nutshell it is apple’s compiler strategy but is also “an aggressiveoptimizing compiler system that can be used to build traditional static compilers, link-time optimizers, run-time optimizers and JIT systems”. The guys behind it eventually want to replace gcc, and fwiw I [...]
Why are we still sending each other HTML?
Google Wave is a great leap forward in user experience. It attempts to answer the question ‘what would email look like if it was invented today’. It, however, started from a clean slate, which I am not sure we need to do. I think we need to look at the kind of collaborations now taking [...]
Google Wave – I don’t get it and how to build it with existing standards
Don’t get me wrong I think that it is a great user experience and a great leap in invention (putting aside concerns that I have about attention management) but I don’t understand why it was built the way it was built. Sure it allowed them to do that neat search trick, but frankly, who really [...]