Category Archive: Nifty Things

Jan 16

Nifty Things for Week 16 January 2015

Quotes 10 Best Quotes from Linus Torvalds’ Keynote at LinuxCon Europe | Linux.com Open Source Pick a License, any License A Quick Guide to GPLv3 Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide Software Freedom Law Center Guide to GPL Compliance 2nd Edition SPDX — The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) …

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Jan 09

Nifty Things for Week 9 January 2015

Networking Indigo Virtual Switch Project Floodlight — Open Source SDN Cloud Make No Mistake: Mesosphere is Going After OpenStack 5 PaaS anti-patterns Cloud Computing Basics — Platform as a Service (PaaS) DevOps The Three Question DevOps Litmus Test Three More #DEVOPS Litmus Tests ARE YOU REALLY DOING DEVOPS? 8 PREREQUISITES YOU MUST CONSIDER DevOps Bookmarks …

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Jan 02

Nifty Things for Week 2 Jan 2015

Tools Taiga — Open Source agile project management. Supports Scrum & Kanban out of the box. Open Daylight — Software defined networking Cloud OSv — Open Source Operating System designed for Cloud Mesosphere DCOS: One command control of data center services Life Lessons 5 Lessons I Learned at Ebay So You Want to be a …

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Dec 26

Advent Calendars for 2014

It’s a bit late, perhaps, but here’s a list of some of the advent calendars for 2014. QEMU Perl 6 Advent Calendar Catalyst Java Advent Calendar Gopher Academy 2014 Calendar Free Font Advent Calendar 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends A huge list of Advent Calendars can be found at Qiita. A “Planet” aggregator for …

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Dec 26

Nifty Things for Week of 26 December

Arts and Crafts Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as snowflakes? Genius Fun Stuff The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar Data Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison generatedata.com — generate “random” datasets. It …

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Dec 19

Nifty Things for Week of December 19

These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week. Random The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen All the Pretty Things Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies Cloud Computing StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations AWS Lambda Announcing Snappy Ubuntu …

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