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MapReduce is Google's secret weapon: A way of breaking complicated problems apart, and spreading them across many computers. Hadoop is an open source implementation of MapReduce that you can use on your own computers, in the same way.
How does Hadoop work, and how might you best use it? Especially if you were interested in the recent news involving Yahoo and Hadoop, or if you're interested in cloud computing, it's worth finding out.
ZDNet U.K. is reporting that efforts to increase the adoption of open source software are being derailed by the efforts of a loud minority who have made personal attacks on individuals.....Appcelerator, a player in open source rich Internet application (RIA) development, today announced the launch of its new developer community, the Appcelerator Developer Network.....Is Google playing politics with open source?...Linux.com covers clients for three top P2P networks.....
Google is opening part of its Google Docs suite and introducing a new Visualization API, so that users can make use of third party gadgets and developers can customize applications. Anyone can write a gadget via a Google API, and publish gadgets to an iGoogle page or other web page. You can select data or text in an application, and make a gadget that incorporates it. Change the underlying data, and the gadget updates. The Visualization API lets developers share apps based on structured data. See Google's post and Webworkerdaily.com's story.
Late last month Microsoft received a tentative slap in the face when the ISO\IEC didnοΎt approve MicrosoftοΎs OOXML (Open Office XML) format as an ISO standard. This came as a bit of a surprise to industry analysts as Microsoft has been lobbying hard to get its Office file format approved.
Late last year the head of the working group handling MicrosoftοΎs application at the ISO accused the company of stacking his group and interfering in ISO business.
Many open source developers rely on Google Code--the company's developer network, with APIs, open source projects, and much more--to help fuel their projects. Jacob Moon, from Google Developer Programs, now has an interesting blog post up about how the folks behind Google Code recently implemented a few speed and efficiency boosts on the site. If you do any kind of development on the web, take a close look at how these tune-ups were executed.
