Toru Maesaka's weblog Vox 2008-08-28T05:41:30Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4141a09476a47/ Web addict and a hackaholic based in Tokyo Micro Blogging Conference at Cybozu Labs tag:vox.com,2008-08-28:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fae8d99284000b 2008-08-28T05:26:49Z 2008-08-28T05:41:30Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Microblogging is something that is becoming popular in Japan (though I wouldn't say "big"), and at the same time an interesting application that involves many technical challenges. A micro blogging infrastructure must be able to scale both write ...

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]]> Perl, Binary and Memcached tag:vox.com,2008-08-15:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fa969142a70002 2008-08-15T08:39:32Z 2008-08-16T08:22:12Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The last few days I've been working on updating the binary protocol test in the latest memcached development branch to comply with the latest binary protocol specification. Prior to this update, the test client was sending an invalid request to t...

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]]> Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Drizzle tag:vox.com,2008-07-30:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fa968cab310003 2008-07-30T03:00:25Z 2008-07-30T03:18:30Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Ubuntu_mac

So admittedly, Mac OS X is currently not the most friendly platform to work with Drizzle, mostly due to library issues. OS X has several weird hacks in it due to licensing issues (libreadline comes into mind first). Sure, MacPorts, Darwin Port...

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]]> Drizzle, out in the open tag:vox.com,2008-07-23:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fad69c42b80005 2008-07-23T07:03:34Z 2008-07-23T07:27:11Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom So I've been fortunate enough to participate in developing Drizzle, which is a microkernel fork of MySQL that you can read more about on Brian Aker's blog post. In brief we are getting rid of components that we find unnecessary in MySQL by def...

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]]> USBアダプター経由でemobileが使えたよ tag:vox.com,2008-07-21:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fae8cdfe9e000b 2008-07-21T10:42:58Z 2008-07-21T12:57:49Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Emobile

こんばんは、久しぶりの日本語エントリーです。 私は普段はemobileから販売されているExpressCard/34 (D03HW) タイプの通信カードとMacBook Proで快適ワイヤレス生活を送っているのですが、最近になってUbuntu専用で使っているExpressCard/34に対応していないノートPCでもemobileを使いたくなったので、USBアダプターを購入して実験してみました。 結論からいうと、普通に動きます。 マシンはThinkPad X61で、OSはUbu...

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]]> memcached Users Group in Japan tag:vox.com,2008-06-25:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fad694a3710004 2008-06-25T09:12:50Z 2008-06-25T16:50:35Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom So memcached is used to scale and improve the performance of almost every large websites that you love. This is not an exception for Japan either. For example, mixi, the largest social networking website in Japan rely greatly on memcached. I also...

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]]> Great Fun at the MySQL Seminar tag:vox.com,2008-05-28:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fa9679a9160003 2008-05-28T10:29:56Z 2008-05-28T14:49:16Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Last week I spoke at the MySQL seminar in Tokyo as a guest speaker with Brian Aker on "Memcached and MySQL". The seminar turned out to be very fun with just over one hundred attendees. You can checkout the photos from here. At the end of the se...

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]]> Thoughts on YAPC::Asia 2008 tag:vox.com,2008-05-17:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700fa9675847b0002 2008-05-17T05:49:32Z 2008-05-17T07:50:14Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Larry

Even though I don't consider myself a Perl hacker, the two days at YAPC::Asia were surreal. It was great fun and it was nice to hear the current trend in Perl. Specifically, I found the "~~" operator in 5.10 to be quite nifty (must test to see if ...

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]]> Shuffling things around and Google tag:vox.com,2008-04-03:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700e398ec70130005 2008-04-03T07:51:12Z 2008-04-03T07:52:16Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Recently I transferred my domain (http://torum.net) to a Japanese domain management company since my old one had no attractive features to offer me. I also figured that it was a good occasion to start using the features that I haven't bothered us...

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]]> Interesting Names... tag:vox.com,2008-03-20:asset-6a00d4141a09476a4700e398e7bc550005 2008-03-20T11:46:06Z 2008-03-21T08:31:26Z tmaesaka http://tmaesaka.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A new symbolic tower is currently being built in Tokyo and is expected to be completed in 2011. The developers are now calling for votes to decide the name of the tower. This is a good thing but whats interesting are the candidates: Tokyo Edo T...

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