Archive for January, 2009
Tropical Cyclone Charlotte fills Cairns streets
by matt on Jan.11, 2009, under Rantings
Lake Street Cairns is awash today with the aftermath of ex-tropical cyclone Charlotte which is currently situated over central North Queensland. The best Japanese curry shop in Cairns had to close its doors today due to the inaccessibility of its shop front by customers.
Silva and Chris Holme’s Wedding
by matt on Jan.11, 2009, under Rantings
On the weekend I attended Silva and Chris Holme’s wedding. I took a few photos on my iPhone of the wedding and reception:
Disney Nature presents “Earth”
by matt on Jan.11, 2009, under Rantings
Destined to be the most entertaining movie of 2009, Disney Nature will be releasing a movie called Earth later this year. For all of those Discovery Channel lovers, this is easily a not-to-be-missed feature film.
The full HD trailer version can be downloaded from apple.com/trailers.
Stop Textmate from creating ._ files
by matt on Jan.09, 2009, under Mac OS X Hints
Textmate, by default creates annoying hidden ‘._’ files that litter your svn status listings. These resource fork files will store cursor position, bookmarks and text folding as metadata. It is however possible to disable resource fork use in textmate.
Close textmate and run the following in terminal:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDocumentDisableFSMetaData 1
Source: http://manual.macromates.com/en/saving_files
Case Study: YouTube - High Availability / High Scalability
by matt on Jan.08, 2009, under Rantings
I just came across an excellent article from a website that is designed as a resource for creating high scalability websites. The article focuses on the challenges that the YouTube team have faced and the rational load distribution decisions that they made.




















