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Fight My Monster Architecture in 5 mins! 29 Feb 2012 | 10:32 am
We computing engineers live in exciting times. The Internet and its supporting infrastructures really have come of age, and all of a sudden things can, and mostly importantly should be done in new way...
ConcurrentHashMap – avoid a common misuse! 13 Dec 2011 | 04:18 am
If you program systems with Java, you have probably long been using ConcurrentHashMap. This post explores a caveat. ConcurrentHashMap is often introduced to simplify code and application logic. For e...
Fight My Monster in TechCrunch 2 Jun 2011 | 08:18 am
Fight My Monster was in TechCrunch today, which deserves a big hooray and thank you!!! We’re working hard and hope we can fulfill expectations. Thanks too to Moshi for setting an inspiring example. P...
PayPal recurring payments and bonkers docs 18 Apr 2011 | 03:06 am
If you’ve ever tried to integrate with PayPal recurring payments, you’ll know that the documentation only covers most of the API. I started a thread to try and clarify the key issues, here https://ww...
10 steps to upgrade a Cassandra node 27 Mar 2011 | 08:23 am
The following steps might prove interesting to those with a new Cassandra cluster who are wondering how to upgrade, or to those investigating Cassandra who are interested in what an online upgrade loo...
New UK “prospective entrepreneur” Tier 1 visa. Much ado? 21 Mar 2011 | 06:21 am
The UK is trying hard to be more enterprise-friendly and is loosening bureaucracy and introducing legislation designed to spur growth. Some legislation coming into effect 6 April 2011 is designed spec...
Monsterfun.com, again 23 Feb 2011 | 05:23 am
If you followed my blog you might recall how we use the URL MonsterFun.com when we advertise Fight My Monster. The idea is that it is an easy to remember redirector for www.FightMyMonster.com. Here’s...
Cassandra: the importance of system clocks, avoiding OOM and how to escape (unnecessary) OOM meltdown! 9 Feb 2011 | 09:13 am
First of all, big thanks to jbellis and driftx (Jonathan Ellis and Brandon Williams of DataStax). Without them, I’d still be up trying to fix a problem node I’ll talk about later. They were no doubt h...
Monsterfun.com, our redirector 3 Aug 2010 | 11:12 pm
Fight My Monster is a fantastic brand name, but is quite a handful for kids to type as a domain name (www.FightMyMonster.com). What we don’t want is kids googling “Fight My monster” and then clicking ...
Cassandra: Up and running quickly in Java using Pelops 12 Jun 2010 | 12:31 am
Pelops In Greek mythology Cassandra is captured by the triumphant king Agamemnon after the fall of Troy, with whom she has two sons, Pelops and Teledamus. This Java client library is Pelop’s namesake...
