Opinions on building highly available software businesses
Google’s been shit for quite a while now but today I’m finally sick of it, so switching. Do they think I typed out the word barcelona for my health or something? Or maybe I’m using the Internet wrong (does the Internet actually come with a manual?). So they just decided, again, to drop one of […]
Back in September Google released it’s new Hummingbird algorithm, apparently affecting 90% of search queries, as it strives for greater accuracy and more relevant results. Aimed at ‘conversational searches’, like what is the best cake? rather than simple terms such as best cake. (when is the last time you made a search request like that?) […]
So, I really like the song Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London, so on a whim I decided to try and see if there were any Linux Sysadmin roles going over there, I think there’s a huge oil industry out there and they must use computers, right? Turns out the first search result […]
I need to write some backup software for our hosted Google Apps, so as we’re a Java shop I’m going to be using the Java API. Also we’re heavy users of Hudson and Maven so want to get the checked out source building with that. There is a Google Code project called google-apis-mavenized which looks […]
