rit's ramblings
November 20, 2009

The first step to getting started with Riak is to grab the source and compile it. You will need Erlang installed on your system.

To be honest, I’m somewhat kicking myself for writing this post. As I’ve said many times: roundup posts are for people who are too lazy to write real content. I can’t tell you how many blogs…

November 19, 2009

After getting somewhat comfortable with writing a Scala-only application, I wanted to see how hard it would be to take an existing Java application and add some Scala code to it. I thought this would…

And then, according to a transcript of the encounter that was later released as part of a lawsuit, Mr. Bardmass persisted, “You may not be legally required to tell me that, but you will be legally…

Scalar is a cloud computing DSL based on Scala language and GridGain 3.0 runtime. Let me explain in a bit more details.
First of all, it is a DSL - Domain Specific Language for cloud computing….

you can use Hadoop from Scala pretty easily. Unfortunately, like many Java libraries, Hadoop requires a lot of boiler plate, and it’s of course not well integrated with some of the higher-order…

September 28, 2009

Among the things I cleaned up was how I handle HTTPS: I need it because people enter passwords when creating tarsnap accounts and when logging in to the tarsnap account management interface, but I…