Monthly Archives: March 2008

Hadoop Summit Conference, Santa Clara

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Administrator

I was at the free Yahoo! Hadoop cluster computing summit conference today at Techmart in Santa Clara. About 200+ attendees showed up – packed and SRO. There was a single track that was filmed. Poor WiFi at times. I would … Continue reading →

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IMUG: Vertical Text on the World Wide Web

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Administrator

Stephen Zilles, Standards Architect, Adobe Systems, gave a talk tonite at IMUG on “Vertical Text on the World Wide Web” about W3C text formatting standards, such as CSS, SVG and XSL, for various languages. Some interesting examples are Mongolian, which … Continue reading →

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Administrator

St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday celebrated on March 17 in the USA, Canada and other commonwealth countries by wearing green clothes and drinking green beer. I’ll have to take it easier on the green beer next year. wikipedia: … Continue reading →

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