Here’s how to build your own supercomputing cluster using nothing but ruby, vim, and a really hot cup of tea. http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/rubyqueue.html.

Or go straight to the source: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/rq/

Tim writes as much as anyone could ask for about O’Reilly’s answer to that question, here.

Keep an eye on Carson Workshops for interesting talks coming up.

According to Chris May, Flikr’s deployment process looks like this:

Nice.

This could be the longest post-free period since I started blogging. I place the blame squarely on World of Warcraft. Damn you Blizzard! Got a couple of longish posts brewing to get me back in the saddle, if I can drag myself away for long enough.

Clay Shirky writes here about the internet and its lack of a shelf.

An interesting counterpoint to all the talk about how ontologies will be the next big idea.

This article about high performance architecture makes for pretty interesting reading, although it lost a lot of credibility for me when it categorised the choice of Java for implementing SEDA as ‘unfortunate’ in ‘the real world’.

Apparently the ‘real world’ is one where we all have nothing better to do than pointer arithmetic and chase down malloc / free memory leak bugs.

Call me a luddite, but I can’t help but be sceptical of any programming paradigm that takes 39 screenshots to describe how to code ‘Hello World’.

http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/start/index.html

Read.

Took part in my very first podcast last week as Charles and Cote’s guest on the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast.

I was pretty nervous, and it shows.