Toru Maesaka's weblog

Micro Blogging Conference at Cybozu Labs

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:26:49 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:39:32 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:00:25 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:03:34 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:42:58 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:12:50 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:29:56 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:49:32 +0900

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

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:51:12 +0900

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...

nobody@vox.com(tmaesaka) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:46:06 +0900

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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