http://dizzyd.com/blog Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:01:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Innostore is an Erlang application that provides an API for storing and retrieving key/value data using the InnoDB storage system. This storage system is the same one used by MySQL for reliable, transactional data storage. It's a proven, fast system and perfect for use with Riak if you have a ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/214 It's 1.44 am. Woke up feeling weird; then my mind went running, afraid of what it might find. I was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma three weeks ago now. I'm blessed in a lot of ways. The cancer is slow moving, non aggressive -- or so it appears at this point. I ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/210 Over the past two months, I've been busy taking the lessons learned from erlbox and designing a pure Erlang build tool called rebar. While erlbox is a very complete toolkit of rake functions for building Erlang code, it has a couple of significant problems. First off, the external dependency on ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/194 Let's say you need to debug a port driver in Erlang. This typically involves gdb (unless you prefer the printf route). Go to where erlang is installed and edit the bin/erl script. Change the last line from: exec $BINDIR/erlexec ${1+"$@"} to: if [ ! -z "$USE_GDB" ]; then ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/190 Mr. Sarma revisits his claims that Dynamo is a universally "flawed architecture". I certainly concur that Dynamo has its flaws, but making sweeping claims about something being universally so is to under-value the contribution to production thinking that Dynamo contributes. So, once again, I'm going to take a few choice ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/184 In general, I think it's a little inflammatory to make sweeping statements about the fitness of a given architecture. Every architecture has its flaws; it's an expected state when you are faced with diametrically opposing constraints. The real question that should be asked is whether or not an architecture solves ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/172 erlbox is a set of Rake tasks that make it easy to build Erlang applications and embedded nodes. It's a framework that Phil and I developed over the past few months and is now something I'd prefer not to live without. While it would be nice to have a "pure" ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/122 The last portion of this year has been draining on many fronts. It's not a complaint -- just a statement. I was grading two classes, taking another and working full time. It was too much. I worked through everything, but at different times had to neglect things that I would ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/121 I've recently been bitten by the "GTD":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done bug. I'm not exactly a disorganized person -- I generally do get stuff done. What attracted me to the system is the core idea of striving for clarity of thought by eliminating (brain) clutter. I've always loved the feeling that I get when ... http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/119 Digits click, Neuron to circuit, ideas flow; Software breathes. http://dizzyd.com/blog/post/118