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Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2009 Video

September 24th, 2009 admin No comments

Awesome! http://www.vimeo.com/album/128851

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Next Hot Trend in Programming Language: Scala

August 23rd, 2009 admin No comments

I knew it was coming. The popularity of functional programming languages are on the rise now that processors are expanding horizontally(SMP) rather than vertically(clock speed). It’s also rather difficult to scale anything written with training wheels. My initial bet was on Erlang, but with its unnatural syntax and different thought process, it’s not catching on [...]

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Sorry About The Server Outage

August 28th, 2008 admin No comments

It sometimes amazes me how stupid I am. I forgot to maintain my DNS records and my servers were down for couple of hours. On another note, please make sure you check out Security Now! podcast over at twit.tv on DNS. It’s really interesting and should give you some insight as to why it is [...]

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Apache Reverse Proxy with MediaWiki

July 30th, 2008 admin No comments

For last two days, I’ve been having a bitch of time trying to get Apache reverse proxy to work correctly with my backend server. It happens that the when I hit the URL for my wiki, it exposes the backend server’s address and port. In fact, it was just redirecting it rather than serving up [...]

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