More notes:
- Google fellow, Urs Hölzle, gave an talk about how Google search works, telling how they cluster their machines in two matricies (one for indexing and another for content). He talked a little about the Google File System (GFS), and MapReduce. More details from Urs’ talk here. Fun stuff.
- Ed Warnicke is trying to generate and organize interest in dynamically-typed languages — such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and especially TCL — in Eclipse. Though I have my doubts whether there is much demand for scripting language IDEs, I am curious and hopeful that something comes out of it.
- Randy Hudson gave an talk on obstacle avoidance in GEF that I found interesting.
- Mark and I took a short stroll along the waterfront between sessions yesterday. I can see why this is such a popular place to live: flowers bloom in February!
- After hundreds of years of eating at tables, why hasn’t anybody developed a place setting that unambiguously identifies a diner’s water glass?
Ken Dyck 