About Me
26 year old software developer located in Dublin, Ireland.
I work for EngineYard on Orchestra, the PHP Platform as a Service.
Email: ross.duggan@acm.org
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I run wthax.org and co-founded Ireland's first anime convention, EirtaKon.-
Recent Posts
- Reading list for scaling Solr
- I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
- Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- “Levelling the playing field” in education
- Munin plugins for Solr
- Google Plus
- Getting Windows 7 onto a USB stick using Ubuntu
- Searching Boards.ie – Solr, EC2, SQS, SNS, Node.js
- EC2: Create AMI from a running instance
- Gender breakdown for software development in Ireland
Recent Comments
- Leon Woodward on Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
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- Sully on I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
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Categories
Development
Recreational
Technology
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Develinks – 24-04-2009
Oracle buys Sun Microsystems – Big news this week, Oracle, MySQL’s oldest rival, is purchasing Sun Microsystems, the current owners of MySQL. Lots of articles that make for interesting reading in hindsight now. Interesting perspective here.
Google Analytics API – Google have finally opened up Google Analytics via an API, which opens up all sorts of of lovely possibilities. Will be interesting to see the impact it has on the “metrics” community.
Google Profiles – This is the kind of thing that if Google put more than minimal effort into it, could kill LinkedIn etc in a heartbeat. They’re probably acutely aware of this
Google blog post on the addition of profiles.
Memcache Server Hardware – Hardware specifically designed for the open source caching system (via Justin Mason).