Google To Launch Database Web Service Using BigTable?

June 15th, 2009 Google executives are all praises for Twitter's success. Well, what could be the reason? It seems that the Googleplex men are looking to cash on the micoblogging giant.

November 8th, 2008 Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First Growth these days) you will have to opt for consumer grade hardware (instead of big iron which more companies opted during the dotcom era ) and use them in a distributed computing framework like hadoop or GridGain or older (more mature) high throughput computing systems like OpenPBS (ignore the marketing talk to download the free version) or Condor.

March 2nd, 2006 In a rather sad story a Googler (Google employee) narrates his misery with paltry salary and poor chance of a raise. Apparently in Google you can get a raise (merely 5-8%) with only a promotion.

June 19th, 2009 Search engine giant Google is all set to launch a new Google Labs project it calls Flipper. Keep your wild guess on racks, its not another search robot of course.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

July 31st, 2007 HSQLDB is a high performance RDBMS written in pure Java. It can be used as a in-memory database or regular file based database.

April 26th, 2009 A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress.

May 11th, 2005 What would happen when a GWA user uses phpMyAdmin?

April 5th, 2005 Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus. Lets scan Google News lately: Google Maps now has a satellite Google Ride Finder - Builds on top of Google Maps to show you the live positions of various taxis in your area.

June 6th, 2006 Google released a limited test version of Web-based spreadsheet program to make it simple to edit and share lists and data online. It comes barely months after Google bought a small Silicon Valley company called Upstartle, creators of a Web-based word-processing program called Writely.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - To help Iranians "communicate directly" to the world in the wake of the growing protests in the country, Google has unveiled a Farsi translation service, while Facebook has launched a version of its site in Persian. The Internet has played a key role in allowing some Iranians to communicate since last week's disputed presidential elections, and many international media outlets have used services like Twitter and emails in their coverage, The Telegraph reports.

January 17th, 2006 HSQLDB, the famous fast RDBMS written in Java, introduced a new feature which affects code ported over from previous versions. From version 1.7.2, in-process databases are no longer closed when the last connection to the database is explicitly closed via JDBC.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

November 28th, 2005 I have observed this for sometime, so I thought I would bring this to light and see if you have observed it too. Apparently nofollow directive is ignored by search engines including Google, despite their claims.