My last twitter was “Its after midnight and i just finished my first MapReduce application. Next up, blogging about it.” Well now its time to blog about it. And share some code…won’t that be fun? So I’ve always wanted to do some distributed programming or parallel programming(technically not the same, but aim at solving similar problems), but the barrier of entry was always too high and the learning curve a bit steep.

As a follow-up on I am getting Ruby-fied, Ruby’s not ready - glyphobet • ???????? • ???????? does a much better job at going over Ruby’s faults. Ruby on Rails is not discussed except to say that it and Pylons are very similar, but i tend to agree that a lot of the different web frameworks out there are quite similar because they all include what is needed of a modern framework.

I still get a lot of searches and hits on my “Mytube” page as well as some inquires by mail…which tells me two things. One is that people still do not fully understand how to fully use flex and the other is that RIAs are pretty popular these days. To help people who come searching for this, let me shine some light on the matter. I’ll do so in the form of bullet points to speed up the process.

I read today about Microsoft releasing the source code of the .Net class libraries and i have to say that it is an excellent move on their part. In an earlier post, i argued why i think that all frameworks should be open sourced and i still believe that. In fact, it is because of this that i started cutting down on using .Net programming for any of my work.

A year ago, i decided to replace my mobile phone. The battery had terrible durability and this was the second one that i replace. So i decided to bite the bullet and replace the phone. I spent a little time doing some research to know what types of phones are available locally and was quickly saddened by the alternatives. You see, i wanted a phone that would do more than make calls.