Down, Up, Found, Looking
My valuations after today’s reading:
Down - my stock in these is falling:
- CouchDB seems a bit over-engineered. It’s just an impression I have but it just seems to be doing to much and I just don’t feel I could trust it as a reliable and easy to maintain server. I got this impression while reading this http://jchris.mfdz.com/code/2008/10/standalone_applications_with_co. But also I read some performance statistics about CouchDB taking a lot of space and I am worried about the lack of security still.
- RabbitMQ - too tied into a notion of enterprise. Not sure I like the AMQP spec.
- This blog theme. Looking for something more readable.
Up - my stock in these is rising:
- GTD - I nailed my Gmail GTD system down some more today. I will write a post about it later. But I have been more and more impressed with how Gmail has a nice workflow. For one thing I learned that I can get a list of shortcuts by typing ‘?’. I also came up with some new strong but simple personal GTD guidelines around my daily flow so will status everybody on that if they work well.
- Mnesia - the Erlang database. I read a pretty promising article about it. In the past it seemed to big and clunky to pay attention to.
- Mochiweb was referenced favorably several times in my reading.
- Erlang in general continues to climb. I feel more and more confident that if I dive into I could learn something cool. I spent 3 hours and really got the basics down (again) last night.
- Ruby - up today. Mostly because of just some click I had when I started thinking about easy and readable a language it is. Also, I hit some more Ruby blogs. came out looking great.
Found - These look like promising investments.
- Beanstalkd - I had heard of this but it came out shining as a really fast queue that is used in production.
- A good looking Erlang/Hadoop blog.
Looking - I am still looking for:
- A simple and effective pipeline to do data analysis without resorting to a RDBMS.
- A really good GTD system - something that enforces in the UI useful categories that often one keeps in their head during GTD (more on that later), more engaging, web based, has a notion of queues instead of lists.
