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Feb 5, 20100

Google's MapReduce patent and the future of Hadoop and CouchDB

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Recently Ars Technica published a good article about Google being awarded a Software Patent (by USPTO) that covers the principle of distributed MapReduce.

The importance of this event lies in the fact that many of todays leading software companies use MapReduce based projects. It is slightly scary for these players especially the users of the Hadoop and the CouchDb projects Read more…

Feb 3, 20102

Google phases out support for IE6

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Today I got an email from Google (as a google apps admin) saying that over the course of 2010 they we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.  The same is also communicated at their blog.

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Also when opening Facebook from IE7 browser I got a box on the top suggesting me to upgrade to IE8. Earlier last year similar phase out warnings had started to appear on YouTube as well.
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Jan 22, 20100

Go, the new programming language from Google

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Go is the new, open sourced programming language released by ‘Go’ogle recently. The language is intended for the programmers familiar with C or C++ and like these languages its goal is to serve as a system language. Compiled Go code runs at close to the speed of C and its compilation happens almost instantly.
It still seems to in the under construction phase though, still evolving, and not yet redy for production environments. As Ars Technica mentions the ecosystem around the programming language is still a work in progress (ie. IDE integration and the libraries ).

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The creators of the language say that it’s not intended for beginners, but it’s also not terribly difficult to learn. It’s object-oriented and boasts features like true closures and reflection.

This one is another resultant of the 20% time project time that Google is famous for.

Infoq has put together a primer for the language here.

Go’s own tutorial page is here.

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