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WebJob
webjob.sourceforge.net — WebJob downloads a program or script from a remote WebJob server and executes it in one unified operation. Any output produced by the program/script is packaged up and sent to a remote, possibly different, WebJob server. WebJob is useful because it provides a mechanism for running known good programs on damaged or potentially compromised systems. This makes it ideal for remote diagnostics, incident response, and evidence collection. WebJob also provides a framework that is conducive to centralized management.More ... >> More ... >> Posted by Sami Khan on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 17:23Anarchogeek: Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub
anarchogeek.com — What to do beyond REST. Need to see this later as it seems the system is overloaded. More ... >> Posted by Sami Khan on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 14:50What Google uses to program
I have always been curious about Google and what its applications are based on. It turns out it's Java, Python, C++, and SWIG. SWIG is used to tie Python and C++ code together. Here's an entire transcript from PyCon 2005 that details what exactly Google does with its software.
TITLE OF PAPER: Python at Google
URL OF PRESENTATION: --not available--
PRESENTED BY: Greg Stein
REPRESENTING: GoogleCONFERENCE: PyCon 2005
DATE: March 25, 2005
LOCATION: Marvin Theater
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Knowing syntax and semantics versus knowing standard functions
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Review
Recently someone was making a claim that semantics and syntax are by far the most important parts of knowing a language, I have to say I disagree almost completely. Knowing syntax and semantics of a language is almost useless — for instance I can write you some python (I am familiar with the syntax, definitions, indentation, etc.), but I could hardly implement a common search algorithm that I could implement in C, or heck even assembly. When you start learning a language the semantics and syntax are important.More ... >>
