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On important technologies: LLVM, CocoaTouch, Caching, Multi-core designs
As far as I am concerned, LLVM, CocoaTouch and memory based cache servers make up the the set of software technologies that will affect all things computing next year onwards.LLVM is going to push code...
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Computer Games and Music
Here follows a list of some of my favorite computer games themes.Diablo 1 by Blizzard Entertainment. Released in early 1997, this game took the concepts laid out by Nethack, Rogue, Angband and the rest...
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I want to be a pirate!
I downloaded and played The Secret of Monkey Island : Special Edition on Xbox Live Arcade. It took less than few minutes to download the 500+ MB demo and no more than 10 seconds after I launched it to...
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Go for the eyes, Boo!
My (by far) most awaited movie release is Tarantino's new film 'Inglourious Basterds', coming out in August. Check the latest trailers. Pitt's talent in bringing to life the badass character Tarantino...
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On Javascript and simplicity
If you still have doubts about Javascript: becomingbeing the most popular programming languge, its probably because you are not exposed enough to the web-based Applications paradigm shift efffects.Not...
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Random thoughts produced on the balcony
Terry Pratchett on the right to die : Pratchett is one my favorite authors. His books ooze hilarity. He seems an all around awesome person, all things considered, too. Recently, he was diagnosed with...
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Ideas for iPhone applications
I thought of two ideas for iPhone applications yesterday and I thought I would share it with anyone interested in pursuing the tasks. I may do it myself if time and motivation allows it, but do feel...
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on Apple's iPad launch : the Aftermath
The iPad was launched yesterday. What was, perhaps, the most hyped and anticipated product of this eon, finally became known as Steve Jobs held it proudly in his hands. These kind of products usually...
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mySQL, noSQL, and Key Value datastores
Monolithic RDBMs are losing ground to key-value data stores, particularly persistent distributed in nature. mySQL mounting problems was perhaps the key reason (pun intended) people looked elsewhere....
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Update on CloudDS
Here is a progress update to my current main project (we call it 'CloudDS' which stands for cloud data store which is a silly name but it will have to do until we can find a replacement ). I have been...
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iPhone CSRs, Digital Certificates, Encryption and Cryptography
I have been reading about cryptography, digital certificates and signatures, symmetric and asymmetric keys based encryption lately(well, yesterday). Developing iPhone applications (and even more so...
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On Zelda and the iPad Launch
Matt chat 56: Ocarina of TimeI love Matt Barton's work - his books and his video series on Youtube on great games and game makers - and this latest one is about what perhaps is the greatest game ever...
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Thoughts dump, for Jul-06-2010
Our large-scale, high-performance and highly available ( those were the goals anyway, I hope we attained them ) data store has been more or less ready for production for a few weeks now.We have yet to...
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Developing for Android and Windows Phone 7
I spent a few (no more than 2) hours on developing for Android, and the better half of a day building for Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight, mostly because I wanted to learn enough to understand the...
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iPhone 4 home screen
Stelios tagged me so here is my iPhone 4 home screen. I am supposed to pass the torch to someone else, so my brother will take it from here.
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CloudFFS : Large scale, high performance files storage system
CloudFFSSo we built and deployed this new service not long ago at work, and @stelabouras suggested we document some parts of it for internal consumption. Given that I haven't blogged for months, I...
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On digital distribution
The enemy of free is indeed 'easy'. This is more of the case when you grow up and, when time is more important than money and getting frustrated about getting something to work or trying to spin in...
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On Amazon Fire
Amazon's Jeff Bezos unveiled the new breed of Kindle e-readers and their new flagship consumption device, the Kindle Fire tablet. Prior to the announcement most folks posited that Amazon was the one...
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Dear Steve
Dear Steve,I cannot thank you enough for making the world a better place for me, my family and friends. Thank you for the hardware, the software, the services and the movies your values and charisma...
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Thoughts dump 09.06.2012
If I wasn't who I am, which is to say, if I wasn't into computers, software development, and all things 'technology' (this term is overused and abused by the way ), I think I would really enjoying...
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