Ever find memcached is just too limited?
Apparently Redis is the newest. It allows you to store key-value pairs, lists, sets, and even perform set operations, and have them go to disk or expire. I think Jonathan did the show and tell? There are client libraries for a bunch of languages. Continue reading
The Ottawa Android group met at 6:30pm at The Code Factory. More people should know about this group. It was a lively meeting with useful information every minute.
I don’t know why I thought it was obvious, but when you run “top” to see what is taking up resources, “plugin-container” is part of “firefox”. It’s the process that dies when Flash apps commit suicide, so that Firefox can live to show another page.
Bert Hill covered the Exar/Neterion layoff story in the Ottawa Citizen.
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For those people who wanted to know about my layoff from Exar, they posted a press release.
Hi,
Got laid off today. With the whole team. First layoff for one of the guys. Insert philosophical discussion about the industry here, because I don’t have time.
Quote from Engineer:
“I got all the gobbledy-gook and assumed that was the message”
Too true.
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