Coll Stuff #2

Some more stuff I came along the last few days…

• Great introduction talk about Redis by Chris Meadows from Code PaLOUsa 2012.
• The fundamental research paper on Google’s BigTable from OSDI’06.
• Todd Lipcon introducing HBase in this talk at Cloudera.
• Braden Kowitz, a User Experience Designer, tells you why it is important to move the button 3px to the left.
• I was pointed to the Filzbach library, I worked on at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Good old times…
• Brackets is a interesting JavaScript editor written in JavaScript.
• An interesting talk on Big Data system architecture by Scott Fleming and Tim Gasper.
• Great (flash-based) visualization of the scale of the universe, somewhat scary at the very end…
• Solr stress tests can be done using SolrMeter.
• Font Awesome is an awesome iconic font free to use.
• Placeholders can be linked from placehold.it in any size…