Category: Coding and Hacking

You Got Your Manga in my DB Documentation! »

By Chris Miller on Oct 9, 2008 in Coding and Hacking, Featured | 0 Comments

Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical [...]

Making Terminal Less Terminal »

By Chris Miller on Oct 3, 2008 in Coding and Hacking, Featured, Linux, Tech | 3 Comments

Thanks to an article from Lifehacker and some basic python, I’ve managed to make my terminal a bit more interesting.

If folks are interested in learning more, I’ll post a how-to on Unspecified Error.

If Only… »

By Chris Miller on Aug 13, 2008 in Coding and Hacking, Moving | 4 Comments

rsync -avz -e ssh –exclude=useless_crap /cleveland/house/stuff codeshaman@LosAngeles:/woodland_hills/home/.

Speaking of Hadoop »

By Chris Miller on Aug 11, 2008 in Best Practices, Coding and Hacking, Mahalo | 0 Comments

We’ve recently switched the backend of Mahalo to use Hadoop for all of our text archiving needs. What’s Hadoop? Glad you asked…
Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register
Hadoop is a library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce framework. It’s got all the makings of a blogosphere hit: cluster [...]

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