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The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by one of the authors of Dynamo. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at Rackspace, Digg, and a number of other companies, but is still under heavy development.
links for 2009-12-04
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ITP2800: Designing Mobile Apps for Crisis Situations
Here is the slide deck and audio recording of a recent lecture I gave to my NYU ITP2800 students. The topic was “Building an Effective User Experience for Mobile Smartphone Applications Used Under Duress”, with the ideas and content coming from an earlier blog post / crowd-sourced effort on this topic. I still consider this talk a work in progress, but figured I’d share it in the spirit of open iteration!
links for 2009-12-02
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News and Events
* Intro
* Behind ScheduleTheory
* Leak Everything… Leak it Now
* Power of Hactivisim
* Ronin: A (Brief) Intro
* Iptables: Network Auditing with Evoltech
* Hot Piping Coffee Enema
* Anti-CopywrittenHow-Tos
* Protect Web Folders
* RFI Rooting Tutorial
* GLF: Binwriting Protocol
* Digesting Shellcode like a Mollusk
* Letters to the Editor
* Credits and Shout-Out
links for 2009-12-01
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Mobile Phone Penetration: Google Motion Chart Data Visualisation
By Richard HeeksI’ve entered the ITU data on mobile phone penetration for all countries from 1998-2008 into a Google Docs spreadsheet, and then added the Motion Chart visualiser (the same engine made famous by Hans Rosling and TED, though they use the Gapminder Trendalyzer version).
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