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This post is also available in Japanese. I’ve been playing a little bit with ZFS, Oracle’s (previously Sun’s) next-generation file system. Originally developed for Solaris, but since it’s open source also ported to Linux (as of 0.6.1 considered stable for production use) and Mac. While called a file system, ZFS is also a volume manager, so also takes over the job of partitioning your disk as well.

persistence.js: An Asynchronous Javascript ORM for HTML5/Gears The past week or two I have been developing an asynchronous object-relational mapper in Javascript, called persistence.js. Its main use-case, right now, is to simplify the database component of offline-capable web applications, like the mobile web applications that I’m working on. But with some tweaking it should also be usable in serv

Although I used to think otherwise, PHP scales very well and probably easier than other platforms like Java, ASP.NET and Perl (using mod_perl) and I’ll tell you why. But first I’ll tell what scalability is and how it’s different from speed, as they’re often mixed up. People tend to say that because their product is really fast, it scales well. That’s wrong. Scalability is “the capability of a syst

Everybody who once used Java, struggled with Java’s classpath at some point during their career. You have to put all the right paths in there, the right .jar files and so on, both when compiling and running your Java project. To make this somewhat simpler you typically end up doing it either in an IDE, or using a tool like Ant or Maven. These are pretty heavy weight tools, and the latter too invol