These are my notes from the Focus or Fail Workshop @ Pollenizer tonight. What is Focus? A common cause of startup failure is trying to do too many things You can’t beat the big companies by being broad The more focused and narrow you are, the easier it is to ‘get bought’ As entrepreneurs we read more
Simply Delicious is a simple, rock-solid extension for Google Chrome which provides a neat bookmarking button. Install it here… Simply Delicious for Google Chrome Background I decided to write this extension after I tried the alternatives and realised that they mostly sucked. The objective here is to provide a neat “bookmark in delicious” button; that’s read more
Update March 25 2010: I will soon update this for Cassandra 0.6 (which is currently in beta). Until then, this process still works – just install Cassandra 0.5.1 I couldn’t find much in the way of an OS X install guide for Cassandra and (particularly) Thrift, so here’s a brief summary of the steps I read more
Today Sydney is enveloped in a quite spectacular dust storm. Everything is an eerie orange, it really feels post-apocalyptic or like the scene from a martian wasteland. Here’s a photo that Debi took through our apartment window at about 6am this morning: According to the weather bureau, it’s likely to stay around all day.
Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. (apache.org) Originally developed by facebook, it is now an Apache project and at present has incubator status. From my point of view, Cassandra stands out from the crowd of non-relational databases for three reasons: 1. Reference Sites: Apart from facebook, Cassandra recently replaced MySQL read more