My big news to start 2010, I'm moving to San Francisco
After five years working at the Paris office, I’m moving to San Francisco.…
Quick notes on LeWeb 09
A great opening with the conversation between Loic and Jack Dorsey. Very interesting to see how perseverant he was with his idea of what became Twitter, first experimentation in 2000 with blackberry and emails. He could not convince his friends to use it, but he continued to believe in the concept. His new startup Square is also very promising, (see details here) I like the idea of using the jack port, the data is converted in an analog signal and then decoded by the software on the phone.…
Playing With Tokyo Cabinet
I’m still playing with RDF, and while I’m at it, I’m now experimenting with Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant. I rewrote my experimental triplestore using the Mikio Hirabayashi’s software. Right now, I’ve got the Subjects, the Predicats, and the Literals stored in a Tokyo Cabinet Hash, the Triplets in a Tokyo Cabinet Table, and my abstract Node object (which is basically a set of Triplet) in Memcached. I tried Tokyo Cabinet mostly because of the benchmarks, and indeed, I confirm, it’s fast !…
Update your feeds !
I just moved my blog from MT to TypePad. The feeds have moved too, you should subscribe again if you want to follow me: This blog feed The photoblog feed The design is very simple for now, I’ll play with the custom CSS feature in the next few days.…
Playing with RDF
Rainy week-end in Paris, the sun waits until Sunday afternoon to show up, anyway I had good time hacking with perl, memcache and mysql. I started to play with RDF, it came up like this. The web apps in general are slowly moving from the traditional relational DB model, to something more flexible, schema less, and to something more scalable, distributed and heavy cached. There are a lot of different components already existing, memcached, couchDB, Hadoop, ……