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Make International Calls for Free (through Twitter)

Make free International Calls Tutorial. Calls made through Twit2tel – a Twitter based startup. The voice quality is good and you get 4 minutes free call for every 10 seconds or so ad call you listen to.

Rules to Scale, Optimize Performance and Speed up your Website (webinfrastructure)

Do you fancy your website (or web-infrastructure) built over simple commodity hardware to really handle millions of users ??
(ie no sweet and cute super computers and yet so powerful!)
Really? So lets jump in and start discussing that how you can optimize your site to deliver and render content at a blazing speed to the huge [...]

Apache Hive Installation

Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop that provides tools to enable easy data summarization, adhoc querying and analysis of large datasets data stored in Hadoop files. It provides a mechanism to put structure on this data and it also provides a simple query language called Hive QL which is based [...]

Twitter Down? Yes It Is!

Uh!
I wanted to post about .. actually tweet about a website being down.. and I ran down to Twitter.. but hey Twitter is down as well.
Well, as I write this post, the Twitter is down. Hope it get back online soon and I can tweet about “the other site” being down to my folks following [...]

Google Lost In Recursion

Search for “recursion” on Google (without the quotes) and while showing you back the results, Google Search Engine, also suggests you : Did you mean: Recursion
So, after all your careful investigation, matching your query string against the suggestion of Google – you finally think / believe that your eyes must have lost any [...]

Create Desktop Apps. With HTML, CSS And JS: Appcelerator Titanium

Appcelerator Titanium is an open source platform that enables you to create rich desktop applications with web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight.
Appcelerator SDK is used to create applications or any third-party Ajax library / framework can be used too.
Tip: To make it clear, it is very similar to Adobe [...]

Quick Start with PIG

What is PIG?
Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets.
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