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AdesR | 14 years ago | on: A two-year NoSQL case study: technologies, trade-offs, tips

We have had a good deal of luck using ElasticSearch to index and query our couchdb databases on some projects. Couch publishes a _changes feed that allows ES to subscribe to updates and index them as soon as they hit the database. It has a very powerful JSON based query language that eased a lot of the pain points related to couchdb views for us.

I wrote an article about my experiences with it : http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/may/31/flexible-facetin...

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment

stay classy australia. i'm surprised at the lewdness of images used in the keynote.

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: GaIn Index. Data visualization site.

Built with node.js, backbone.js, mapbox, d3.js, modestmaps.js and more.

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Labcss.net - An HTML/CSS snippet, allows direct visual manipulation of CSS

I have been using the bookmarklets provided by squarefree.com (https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html) for about 8 or 9 years now. Cross browser, works on the current page, dead easy.

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I created a window manager for Mac that isn't insanely over priced

you mean like this gpl app that does the same thing? http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site

Developmentseed.org used to be a Drupal site, fwiw.

AdesR | 14 years ago | on: Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site

the maps on the site are designed in [tilemill](http://tilemill.com/pages/index.html), and served by [tilestream](http://mapbox.com/#/tilestream), btw.