Jan 9, 2007
I was mentioned again in the Toronto section of yesterday’s Globe And Mail, this time in an article on the TTC website redesign. I can’t find the link online, but here’s the paragraph:
During the past year, the TTC went from sending a cease-and-desist letter to blogger John Martz for publishing Read more
Jan 4, 2007
After TTC chairman Adam Giambrone said he would be interesting in hearing input on the TTC site redesign, local blogs Torontoist, the Spacing Wire and
Dec 22, 2006
As I mentioned the other day, the National Post interviewed me on my transit map. If all goes according to plan, the story should be in the Toronto Weekend section of Saturday’s … Read more
Dec 20, 2006
I’ve been overwhelmed with the positive feedback for my transit map. The news spread from the Livejournal Toronto community to Torontoist, then to Read more
Dec 15, 2006
Greetings to those visiting my transit map from the Livejournal Toronto community and Torontoist, who describe the map as “the best map ever in the history of … Read more
Facebook is now using Hadoop for realtime workloads, which is interesting in and of itself. (Cassandra was Facebook’s go-to for NoSQL data.) They’ve also extended Hadoop to make it a more effective realtime system. This white paper and slides detail why they chose Hadoop, what changes they made and what is left to be done.