Erlang is Rad

I don't know how many times I've brought it up, but Erlang is still rad. Everyone in technology should watch at least the first 13 minutes of this presentation:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/erlang-software-for-a-concurrent-world

SearchMonkey

I'm pretty excited about SearchMonkey

Marchitecture

This is one of the most insightful interviews I've seen in a long time. I don't know if the term "marchitecture" (guess so) existed before, but whomever coined it was a genius! I have worked for places that were sold TONS of middleware that simply put a halt on productivity, and made life hell. Too bad I'm the only geek I know that watches stuff like this :)

Groovy Threads

I don't know why I think this is so cool, because it's such a no-brainer, but I really like the way Groovy added closures to the Thread class:

tmp.groovy:

def stringOne = 'Hello, ';
def stringTwo = 'World!';
Thread.start{sleep(1000); println stringTwo}
Thread.start{sleep(999); print stringOne}

Groovy Classpath

I always forget this, so it's getting added to my blog for further reference:

You can place jars in your ${user.home}/.groovy/lib directory to have them automatically loaded into your classpath.

Hello World!

B-Trees

I've been thinking about Erlang nodes as B-Tree nodes today (a natural application for the language). I did some reading up on B-Trees on wikipedia and found a video worth the entire number of characters in the article -- the music is awesome. I imagine it being shown to a bunch of CS students in an Indian university by a dorky professor who thinks he can get his students excited if he injects a little Bollywood into his class. Haha!