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The Flip side of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (India)

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Find the guest post on Shivku's blog at http://blog.shivku.com/2009/03/flip-side-of-national-rural-employment.html

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Writing Ruby Map-Reduce programs for Hadoop

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I wanted to make some crawlers that I wrote in ruby to run faster.  Thought of running it using hadoop, and just started trying out using Hadoop Streaming for the purpose, and thought of sharing a short how-to on it since there might be others looking for it. Hadoop Streaming facilitates ...

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IE8 passed ACID 2 test!

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

This might be a old news for some. But I found it interesting and surprising. Microsoft trying to comply with web standards suggests that the web is going to be a cleaner place sometime very soon. http://www.vladimirpetkovic.com/blog/ie-8-passes-the-acid-2-test/

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