http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2017-06-20T19:46:02Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2017-06/avoiding-scale/ <p>A <a href="https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb">great post</a> from Ozan Onay on choosing the right solutions for the problem at hand. Distributed systems always seems like an exciting solution to any size of problem.</p> 2017-06-20T19:46:02Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2013-08/architecture-studio/ <p>Lego's new <a href="http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Studio-21050">Architecture Studio set</a> (#21050) looks like a lot of fun. You can download a <a href="http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/6062928.pdf">400 MB PDF</a> of the instruction booklet to see what you'll be getting into.</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/lego_studio.png" width="558" height="382" /></p> <p>Found via <a href="http://instagram.com/p/cp0Ck1DOhJ/">jeffrey</a></p> 2013-08-06T06:35:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2013-04/doom-3-source/ <p>This <a href="http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php">review of Doom 3's source release</a> is full of tons of interesting stuff, even for non-graphics programmers. [via waferbaby]</p> 2013-04-01T22:10:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-05/twelve-factor-app/ <p><a href="http://www.12factor.net/">12 factor app</a> says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh?</p> 2012-05-02T05:54:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2685/ <p>codahale on <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">cap, harvest and yield</a>. everyone designing distributed systems should read this</p> 2011-06-23T21:38:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2684/ <p>ooh, the why yachts are now really <a href="http://www.why-yachts.com/">for sale</a>. i'll take a dozen</p> 2011-06-23T01:04:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-04/2659/ <p>nice piece from mark at joyent about the <a href="http://joyeur.com/2011/04/24/magical-block-store-when-abstractions-fail-us/">dangers of abstraction</a></p> 2011-04-26T06:00:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-01/2605/ <p>it's true - <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html">sci-fi corridors</a> are fascinating</p> 2011-01-12T21:19:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-10/2562/ <p>an <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">excellent description</a> of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest</p> 2010-10-11T18:12:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-05/2214/ <p>cameron's <a href="http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2009/05/you-killed-the-car-camerons-house-now-on-the-market.html">house</a> is for sale. car not included, presumably</p> 2009-05-29T23:59:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)