Archive for November 2006

How About Open Sourcing BigNumbr?

30 November 2006 / 0 Comments

Two month ago, I introduced BigNumbr, an experimental web 2.0 service to share factoids with numbers. Since we didn’t put lots of efforts on creating a buzz around the service, BigNumbr remained silent and very few people are aware of it.

Paris on Rails 2006 Report

19 November 2006 / 10 Comments

Paris on Rails is over. The first french official Ruby on Rails conference was held in the IBM building in Paris, La Défense a couple of days ago. There was a lot of people there — 260 attendees — a big success for this first edition.

The conference was aimed to new comers and curious […]

3Tera’s AppLogic, Web-Scale Computing for All

6 November 2006 / 6 Comments

How to manage the power of thousand of computers to host and scale your web application? Big companies like Google or Amazon have spend 10 years to roll-out their own system built on top of thousand of commodity x86 PCs.

3Tera, a start-up from California solved the problem with AppLogic, an innovative and easy way to […]