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Area42 goes live!!

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What is Area42?
1. Area: Taken from Area51, because its secret and very important/interesting people can be a part of it.
2. 42: We will share knowledge here. “The Answer to Life (tech), the Universe (tech) and Everything (tech)”.
3. Its uniqueness lies in less number of members == less noise.
4. All members have sudo rights!

Where is it?
Yeah right! It’s a secret!

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April 6th, 2011 at 1:54 am

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Event Driven Programming in Java

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Stumbled on this awesome 3 video playlist on Event Driven Programming in Java!

Also, Node.js is one of the new event driven framework, which is freaking fast! A very good guide to understanding what is Node.js and Event driven programming in it self is very well documented here:

1. Node.js, Doctor’s Offices and Fast Food Restaurants – Understanding Event-driven Programming

2. A Programmer’s Tutorial on Event-Driven Programming, Asynchronous Input/Output, and the Bamboo DHT

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March 23rd, 2011 at 4:31 am

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[Analysis] Your favourite text editor/IDE?

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Just out of curiosity, I created this poll about the text editors and IDEs used by the awesome HackerNews community. I posted it on HackerNews and got 3005 responses. If you are interested in seeing the excel sheet, you can look it up here (it would be interesting if some one can mine this data to get more relevant and useful information).

Anyway, time for some results!!
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March 22nd, 2011 at 3:46 am

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New Home for Vyuudha – A distributed store

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We have moved to SJSU-CMPE‘s organization repo on GitHub! Vyuudha is hosted here

What is Vyuudha?
Vyuudha – A clean room implementation of a distributed storage middleware for education and research.

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March 21st, 2011 at 2:45 am

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Manage multiple Linux Users on 1 Amazon EC2 Instance

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In an organization of say 5, some times you need to give many people access to the same EC2 Instance. Sharing the private key and the password b/w 5 users is definitely not a good idea!

So, how do you fix this problem? You create multiple accounts on the Linux EC2 instance and generate keys for every individual accounts, here is how you do it:
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January 6th, 2011 at 7:11 pm

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