Category Archives: Technology

Time Machine vs. ZFS + rsync

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Sam Pullara

Update: I actually got the fslogger thing at the end of this entry working so I can do incremental backups. Not really a product yet but it isn’t hard to do. Here is the super rough version of it. I … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) launch today

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Sam Pullara

Since I moved into the platform group at the beginning of the year I had worked with the YAP and YQL teams to help them define their strategy and direction but without being part of the day-to-day operations. In August, … Continue reading →

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2008 Olympic Medal Counts by Population

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Sam Pullara

There are obviously a lot of ways to measure how well a country did at the Olympics. This post takes a view that we should look at how many people the country had to draw on in order to send … Continue reading →

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Yuil is dead! 4hoursearch is now online.

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Sam Pullara

As this was really just a demonstration of the power of Yahoo! BOSS, I have brought the site back as a demonstration site. Additionally, Yahoo! is making the source code to the new site available so anyone with a knack … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! BOSS is easy — meet Yuil

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Sam Pullara

Updated Yet Again: Relaunched as 4hoursearch including the source code. See this blog entry. Updated Again: Yuil is dead. However, you can always get the same great search results here. Updated: Using Glue I was able to add some simple … Continue reading →

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Better Javadoc results using SearchMonkey

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Sam Pullara

When you are searching for things like java.util.HashMap one of the issues that you run into is that it will give you the result with the highest rank which more often than not is the 1.4.2 version of the documentation. … Continue reading →

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Idiomatic Python?

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Sam Pullara

I’ve been working my way through compiling Java into Python code but the Python back end of my isn’t that good (my brain). I would call my stage of Python development the “magic incantation” stage. This is the stage where … Continue reading →

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Tivo targeted advertising

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Sam Pullara

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tivo targeted advertising, originally uploaded by Sam Pullara. This looks like it might be both effective … Continue reading →

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Using Google App Engine to Extend Yahoo! Pipes

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Sam Pullara

Update: A commenter pointed out that you can from django.utils import simplejson instead of including it. Makes this even easier. Yahoo! Pipes has always been a great tool for manipulating data but often you have to go to great contortions … Continue reading →

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JPA 2.0 with Criteria

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Sam Pullara

(see: JSR 317 Persistently Improving) I love the idea of adding a criteria API to JPA, the only thing I hope that they do differently than Hibernate is to implement that API in addition to string queries.  In Gauntlet we had … Continue reading →

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