A discussion of one of the possible solution’s to Dave Thomas’s 19th code kata. I formulated it as a fully-distributed MapReduce job for Hadoop. Excessive? You bet.

Using HBase’s Thrift interface with Ruby the language and some basic examples.

A quick example of how to use Cassandra’s Thrift interface to connect with Ruby

A simple provisioning script for setting up a standard Rails stack based on Ruby 1.9.1 for Ubuntu Intrepid.

Has-and-belongs-to-many relationships are quite common, but they require some special database/index love to make sure their performance stays up as data volume increases.

Ubuntu JeOS is a ridiculously handy little VM-specialized server installation for creating super simple virtual machines for specific purposes.

An open letter to would-be entrepreneurs everywhere about why shouldn’t be offering equity out of the gate to new developers.

A quick method for converting a latitude and longitude coordinate pair into a timezone.

Clustering is one of the most compelling reasons to use Erlang. Take a look at this basic example showing what it takes to connect multiple Erlang nodes to distribute work.

Quick overview of document collation in CouchDB for combining heterogeneous documents in the reduce phase.