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Some Thoughts on Amazon's Elastic Block Store August 22, 2008
According to Werner Vogels's blog post entitled Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched, it seems that my friends at Amazon have plugged a gaping hole in their cloud computing platform story. Werner writes Back in the days when we made the architectural decision to virtualize the internal Amazon... [Read More]
New Groovy and Grails book August 21, 2008
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GitHub Mirrors for some JBoss Projects August 21, 2008
In addition to the previously-mentioned JRuby mirror from Codehaus SVN to GitHub, I’m now also mirroring: JBoss Microcontainer JBoss AS5 JRuby All are trunk-only mirrors, not picking up branches or tags. Since the JBoss repository path has about 77,000 subversion revisions, and at one point held any and all... [Read More]
Rotor v2 book draft available August 21, 2008
As Joel points out, we've made a draft of the SSCLI 2.0 Internals book available for download (via his blog). Rather than tell you all about the book, which Joel summarizes quite well, instead I thought I'd tell you about the process by which the book came to be. Editor's note:... [Read More]
Essence vs. Ceremony Pop Quiz August 21, 2008
Neal and I have been talking a lot about Essence vs. Ceremony this summer. In most of the examples I give, it is easy to tell which is which. But that isn't always true. Consider this example from Scala. Does the application trait improve essence, or lead to more ceremony? I will post my answer next week. [Read More]
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know August 21, 2008
A while back, Richard Monson-Haelfel was working on a presentation called "10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know", which was a great idea for a talk. To solicit ideas, he posted to several mailing lists where architect-types lurk about, and he got flooded with responses. I was one of the early contributors... [Read More]
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know August 21, 2008
A while back, Richard Monson-Haelfel was working on a presentation called "10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know", which was a great idea for a talk. To solicit ideas, he posted to several mailing lists where architect-types lurk about, and he got flooded with responses. I was one of the early contributors... [Read More]
How Facebook Keeps Memcached Consistent Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers August 21, 2008
Last year I wrote a blog post entitled When Databases Lie: Consistency vs. Availability in Distributed Systems where I talked about the kinds of problems Web applications face when trying to keep data consistent across multiple databases spread out across the world. Jason Sobel, a developer at Facebook... [Read More]
Mirroring SVN repository to GitHub August 20, 2008
So, I’m gearing up to work on some Java+Ruby (via JRuby) stuff. The Java world still seems fairly entrenched in the cult of Subversion, while the Rubyists have gone with Git lately. I’m still wrapping my mind around Git, but with GitHub, it’s fairly easy and straight-forward. I paid my $7 for the... [Read More]
Rich Web Experience Conferences August 20, 2008
My friends at NFJS are hosting two Rich Web Experience Conferences in September, one on the West Coast and the other on the East Coast. The East Coast event also has a concurrent JSF One conference. I wish I could be there, but a scheduling conflict is going to keep me thousands of miles away. If... [Read More]

Leap Day Tape Measure Blasts

An article covering home run blasts at HBT  where they apply metrics to where the shot lands.
The Upton and Upton brotherly love.
MVN’s  Roster Magazine  with Hanley vs Jose Reyes in the fantasy preview.
The Ron Shandler  Interview
As the Clemens  News Turns , check out Steroid Nation
Roto Junkie Fantasy Yearly Fix for $15
More on the Pine Tar [...]

That DRays Bay Season Preview 2008

It was in 2005 I was approached by Sports Blogs to start a blog on Rays called Drays Bay. This month marks the third anniversary of the blog. Even though I blog there on rare occasions, I want to recognize that the site has really evolved to more than just a blog, but a [...]

Don’t Lose Contact

I have read a few good articles articles lately about contact rate which is calculated as (AB-K)/AB) . As you improve the more times the ball hits the bat, the better the chances are your batting average improves:
take the example of a hitter whose real skill is to hit home runs 8% of the [...]

Do Spring Training Stats Matter?

Well, lets take a trip down Spring Training memory lane.

NL Leaders
AL Leaders

A couple years ago the catcher of the Marlins Ramon Castro was hitting home runs in Spring Training at a torrid pace. It turned out to be a fluke. You can’t really judge performance when a lot of the players are not [...]

Choose Your Poision: Roids, HGH or Beer?

Well, I have to say I agree with Shyster about Ken Rosenthal. The baseball insider at Fox think Bonds is bad for the game, but is fine with Giambi, Roberts, et al. I wonder what his thoughts are about Brett Boone and if drinking heavily while as a player is ok? These Nats [...]

Public Opinion Will decide Bonds Fate with Rays

When I wrote the piece On Bonds I certainly was grasping at straws to find a place for Bonds to play in 2008. I put Rays at #7 strictly on fact they were trying to build a clubhouse as witnessed by Delmon et al removal. The Bay area seems more receptive to the move [...]

Bonds Away?

Early on in the baseball career of Barry Bonds, he was known as one of the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B’s. With the numbers Bonds was putting up on scoreboards throughout Major League Baseball for the Pirates in the early 90’s , he won two National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and was proving [...]

The Pine Tar Incident Tape Measure Blast

A few weeks ago we were wondering about Mattingly’s wife and what happened ? The Daily News has a story and pictures about Mattingly’s life, and Donnie’s current unfortunate situation. My first memory of Mattingly was the summer of 1983, when both Don and Steve Balboni were getting a shot at the first [...]

Quad 2007 Rankings stirs up NL MVP Debate

With the 2008 baseball pre-season here, you are probably trying to figure out which player will be the offensive force to build your fantasy team around. The one baseball statistic that I have been following for a while now is the Quad which Rich Lederer pointed out several years ago when he compared some of [...]

Fun with Chone 2008 Projections using Visualizations

The Chone and Marcel projections for 2008 can now be found at Baseball Graphs in sortable format. The good folks at Many Eyes are “passionate about the potential of data visualization”. I took the Chone data for 2008 and applied their data visualization interfaces.
For the pitching projections, I applied [...]


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