Archive for December, 2011

Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone [PDF]

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Interesting paper from UCI shows how the final $400 value of the iPhone is distributed. Interesting fact is that total value of manufacturing is about 10%

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Interesting talk (18 minutes) about motivation for non-trivial tasks — in short: science tells that revord & punishment approach does not work, instead, autonomy, purpose and mastery do work

Linode (Score:5,Informative) — Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider?

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

The comments below are from Dr. Richard Hipp, the author of SQLite . “I’ve been running http://www.sqlite.org/ [sqlite.org] on Linode since 2004. They’ve been great. Highly recommended.:”

How To Set Up A Cisco Lab On Linux (CentOS 5.2) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

EC2 -> Ubuntu 11.o4 /, PostgreSQL 9.+ (Replication) + S3 (photo files) + Redis + Solr + Gearman-> Dajango / memcached -> Nginx -> ELB / Munin for monitoring trends, Pingdom for alerting,

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Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Available Today: Preview Release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux – SQL Server Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Finally … MS released ODBC driver for linux, it’s a binary, w/out any packging (no RPMs )
Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 , Documents http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451%28SQL.110%29.as…

reddit/reddit – GitHub

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Configuration of Reddit website as GitHub repo.

Delicious.com – google chrome add-on

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Google Chrome plugin to store bookmarks in delicious.