Josh Needs a New Project (Part 1)
September 2, 2009 7:36 pmOk, so anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a hacker at heart. I love hacking out new projects, and learning a few lessons from them. Then I usually start tweaking them, lose interest, and move onto something else (e.g. Biographiki, College-Ink, My various attempts at timesharing router labs…)
So here are my technology ideas:
erlang – Yes, Liron – I am finally coming around and I’ll admit that erlang is pretty awesome. Its massively scalable and who doesnt love functional programming… Erlyweb seems like the framework to use, ErlyDB is probably my best bet too. Maybe something p2p.
oCaml – Its the best ML 
. Once again, who doesn’t love functional programming…
python – Its fast enough, and really fast to code in. I like how indentation actually matters. I’ve heard good things about django, and can run it on Google’s App Engine. (I’m getting sick of hearing the word app though, Apple ruined it)
Hadoop – Google’s MapReduce paper captivated me (the BigTable and Google File System papers were awesome too!), but I need a project to use it with. I’m thinking about something using Amazon AWS (EC2, Elastic MapReduce, S3), I already use S3 for the blogs file hosting (Using s3fs and a perl script to redirect some queries to it), and really like the concept.
Now all I have to do is come up with a project idea. Hmmm
(Cue Dunxu to come up with a neat idea we can hack out!)
Anyway, when I get a good idea, I’ll make something cool. Any input is appreciated.
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