'Development' Category

• Disco Tip – Crunching web server logs

  March 21, 2010

  At my day job we use Disco, a Python + Erlang based Map-Reduce framework, to crunch our web servers and application logs to generate useful data. Each web server log file per day is a couple of GB of data which can amount to a lot of log data that needs to be processed on a daily. [...]

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  posted in Development, Disco, Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler

• Don Dodge, Google and Developers Evangelism

  November 16, 2009

  I was just reading over at TechCrunch about Google quickly hiring Don Dodge after he was let go from Microsoft. It seems Don will be doing what he used to do at Microsoft – Developer Evangelism (good for him, and Google!). I’m very happy to see that Google is putting their stock options and cash [...]

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  posted in Development, Google, Microsoft, Rant by Eran Sandler

• Google AppEngine – Python – issubclass() arg 1 must be a class

  September 14, 2009

  If you are getting the error “”issubclass() arg 1 must be a class”” with Google App Engine SDK for Python on Linux its probably because you are running Python 2.6 (and will probably happen to you when you run Ubuntu 9.04 – 2.6 is the default there). Just run the dev server under python 2.5 [...]

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  posted in Development, Google, Google AppEngine, Tips n' Tricks, Ubuntu by Eran Sandler