Because of our work with the Linux kernel and with Android, we have started using Git more extensively at work, and my colleagues often have questions about how to get things done with Git. While the every-day command lists are helpful, most of the time, people would benefit more from getting a fundamental understanding [...]
The afternoon of Boston DevDays 2009 was, in my opinion, not as broadly appealing as the morning sessions (see my writeup of the morning here). However, there was still a lot of interesting material presented.
Joel welcomed us back from lunch by plugging
StackExchange and how it’ll mean the end of “crappy
old copies of Usenet” (by [...]
Boston DevDays kicked
off a month-long tour of technical talks aimed at programmers, organized
by StackOverflow and Carsonified.
I had the good fortune to attend, meet a few interesting people and see
some fun talks. I tried to write a bit in real-time (search Twitter here)
but the WiFi was pretty over-subscribed and there was no cell coverage
to speak [...]
The Chord protocol dynamically constructs robust and scalable overlay networks that map a given key to an active node. The MIT PDOS Chord implementation has served as a reference implementation of Chord, and over the years has accumulated many tweaks and improvements. While the theoretical highlights have largely been documented in our publications, [...]
At today’s VMworld keynote, CTO Steve Herrod included a brief demonstration of the project that I have been working on at VMware since last May: the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). One of the downsides of working in industry as opposed to academia is that you have to wait for big release dates such as [...]
The New York Times has an article today about how the inauguration crowd will test cellphone networks. They wrote:
Sprint Nextel, which said it had been planning for the inauguration since April, has also increased capacity of its cell sites and terrestrial transmission lines to prepare the network to sustain 10 to 15 [...]
Most companies keep resources associated with on-going but as-yet-unreleased projects hidden from public view. Working at a big company has made me realize that many tools for organizing various bits of data, that I took almost for granted as a grad student, are not available inside the firewall. Here are just a few:
delicious, for [...]
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