NoSQL Pioneers Are Driving the Web's Manifest Destiny (via GigaOM)

Jul 13, 2010

I find the classification of NoSQL databases useful, if I am going to use a NoSQL db anytime in future I am going to look at this table.

Also I found this website which gives a vast list of NoSQL databases

http://nosql-database.org/>NoSQL Pioneers Are Driving the Web's Manifest Destiny Twitter has scaled back its plans to store billions of tweets using Cassandra, a non-relational database project that Facebook created and open sourced. Friday night, Twitter said that it will still use Cassandra in a new real-time analytics project it is building, but the decision to move away from plans to migrate tweets from its current MySQL database to Cassandra is seen by some as a blow to startups and open-source projects that are attempti … Read More via GigaOM

Categories : Cloud   NoSQL

Git fatal: remote end hung up

Jul 9, 2010

The most common reason for “Git fatal: remote end hung up” is due to wrong ssh authentication or some other SSH issue.

This Stack overflow thread discusses and gives solution for this issue Git fatal: remote end hung up - Stack Overflow

I got this error because while installing Git in Windows , I choose to use Plink.exe because I had it already installed, but it turned out this option works with Pageant loaded with ssh keys. But I was not using ssh with keys. To solve this I changed GIT_SSH environment variable in windows from “C:\Program Files (x86)\Putty\bin\Plink.exe” to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe”

Categories : Git

YouTube leanback

Jul 8, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/leanback

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/youtube-leanback-offers-effortless.html

YouTube leanback allows users to navigate YouTube videos just with keyboard, and gives a TV viewing like experience.

2 problems or how to do things I find are -

*Is it possible to link IR remote control to leanback so that I can control using remote.

*How to search for vidoes

Categories : TV

HTML5Rocks , Chrome Experiments

Jul 8, 2010

Categories : HTML   HTML5

Online Photo editor - Pixlr

Jul 7, 2010

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

This is a free tool for doing photo editing work, without having to install any software. Its interface, look and feel are similar to Photoshop, and also the tool shortcuts are same as in Photoshop

Categories : Graphics