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The War on Drugs

chl — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:13:05 +0000

Like many of my peers, I believe that the so-called “War on Drugs” that the United States along with many other countries is engaged in, is ridiculous. It has produced no tangible results after decades of enforcement and trillions of dollars spent. Yet it continues, despite the fact that other approaches have been demonstrated to [...]

Oracle’s MySQL

chl — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:14:36 +0000

I suppose this shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me. Inevitable really. But all the same, it was a bit of a shock to see it for the first time this evening… Oh the times they are a changin’!

MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5

chl — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:44:29 +0000

I know I haven’t posted anything in forever. I mean well! I’m working on an article outlining an introduction to encryption with GPG, as well as my own thoughts about all the NoSQL hoopla currently going on. But for now, I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5 systems to my Yum repository. [...]

MongoDB 1.2.2 for CentOS 5

chl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:59:31 +0000

I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.2.2 that are native to RHEL5 / CentOS5 systems. They’re in my Yum repository now. Note that I’ve also built newer packages for the Boost libraries because Mongo likes newer versions than the ones bundled with the distro. Packages are available for i386 as well as x86_64, and there [...]

What I hope I take away from 2009

chl — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:19:33 +0000

It’s simple, and I think best expressed by this graphic (my favorite from 2009).

MongoDB Packages for CentOS 5

chl — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:18:26 +0000

Hi all. If you’re one of the (approximately nine) people who read this blog, sorry for the absence. Been a little busy for the last few weeks. One of the things I’ve been busy with is playing around with is MongoDB which I think is really cool. I don’t have time to write up anything [...]

iPhone vs. Droid

chl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:48:40 +0000

This is genius (disclaimer: planning on getting the Droid fairly soon…)

Addison Kowalski pwns me onstage at FOWA London 2009

chl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:44:23 +0000

I’ve just gotten back from a few days in London for the 2009 FOWA, which was awesome. The very last session was “The Kevin and Gary Show” with the inimitable duo onstage. There was a live feed of all the #fowa tagged tweets going out written by the very cool Elliott Kember and all sorts [...]

Off to London for FOWA

chl — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:25:33 +0000

I’m heading off to London tomorrow for Carsonified‘s FOWA. I’ll be speaking twice at this one. The first is a workshop where I’m going to talk about emerging technologies that can be used to replace the things in the ubiquitous LAMP application stack. I’m also doing a shorter talk in the main sessions about how [...]

Python Tornado Packages for CentOS 5 Available

chl — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:04:19 +0000

Apparently, I’m just on a packaging rampage these days. Recently, Facebook released Tornado. From their site: Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools [...]