Avi Flax

How about parallel processing of elements stored in one of the java.util.* collections? Could we make the Groovy each(), collect() and such methods leverage multiple threads to speed them up? In fact, it is very easy. I wrote briefly about the new concurrency enhancements planned for Java 7 under JSR-166y earlier. I'm still happily experimenting with the library and here's how you could seamlessly employ ParallelArrays to speed up your Groovy collections. Thanks to Groovy meta-programming capabilities we will replace some of the original GDK methods on collections with parallel implementations. - Avi Flax

Groovy Actors leverages the seamless integration of Groovy and Java to create a platform for building large populations of interacting active objects. - Avi Flax

Eclipse HTTP Client (http4E) is a state of the art Rich Eclipse HttpClient Plugin. Having a stunning UI, it’s build on top of the famous industrial proven Apache HttpClient. If you think you are productive Web Services Developer/Tester, this tool will boost your productivity even further. - Avi Flax

With the Cascading sub-project Cascading.groovy, users can create sophisticated data processing applications using the Groovy scripting language. We think Cascading.groovy will be a great tool for those groups that need to expose Hadoop to the 'casual' user who needs to get and manipulate valuable data on an organizations Hadoop cluster, but who possibly doesn't have the time to learn Java, the Hadoop API, or to think in MapReduce to solve their problems and access data. No Groovy code is run in the cluster, it is only used as a means to build complex Cascading Flows and Cascades. Think of it as an Ant build file. Ant is configured by XML build files which represent internal graph of tasks the Ant tool needs to execute. We find XML tedious for such applications and figured Groovy to be a better alternative. - Avi Flax

Cascading provides means for defining arbitrarily large and complex, reusable, and fault tolerant data processing workflows, and a job planner for rendering those workflows into cluster executable jobs. Cascading allows the developer to assemble predefined workflow tasks and tools, collect those workflows into a logical 'unit of work', and to efficiently schedule and execute them. Where these processes can scale laterally on clusters running in the local datacenter or on Amazon EC2. - Avi Flax

A brief introduction to using Apache Solr for implementing search for your website. - Avi Flax

Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. - Avi Flax

In many countries, traditional water collection involves carrying a 5-gallon (20-liter) bucket on the head. This practice puts a great burden on the body and can damage the spine, neck and knees over time. A full Hippo Water Roller only feels like 22 pounds (10 kg) when rolled over level ground, making it possible for almost anyone to transport 24 gallons (90 liters) of water in much less time and with greater ease. - Avi Flax

I’m not playing gotcha here. This is telling: if Paulson can’t be honest about what he himself sent to Congress — if he not only made an incredible power grab, but is now engaged in black-is-white claims that he didn’t — there is no reason to trust him on anything related to his bailout plan. - Avi Flax

Stores in Park Slope, Brooklyn and Maplewood, NJ.Our In-Store Recycling Center accepts Batteries, Cell phones, Ink cartridges, CDs and their cases, Hand-held electronics, and Crayons. - Avi Flax

Free CD Recycling and free Hard Drive Recycling are services offered by Back Thru The Future Technology Disposal, to consumers with a desire to improve their environmental footprint. CDs and hard drives are made of high value recyclable material - polycarbonate plastic and aluminum respectively. The recycling of CDs and hard drives saves substantial amounts of energy and prevents significant amounts of both air and water pollution attributed to the manufacturing of these items from virgin material. - Avi Flax

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PHP does not have threading anywhere in its massive core. We can, however, fake it by relying on the underlying operating system’s multitasking abilities instead of PHP. This article will show you how. PHP has no built in support for threading. But there can still be times when you’ve got lengthy code to run and idle CPU cyles you’d like to capitalize on. We can treat child processes as threads. I created a PHP4-compatible class named Thread to abstract away the details of process management. - Avi Flax

Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language. - Avi Flax

I've been working on something related to this. I wish I had it ready to share! - Avi Flax

What Would RESTUnit Look Like? · I’m early in this thought process, but some basics occur to me: ¶ Access to GET/POST/PUT/DELETE with fine control over the headers, and utilities to wrangle ETags and so on. Easy XPath for pulling stuff out of messages which happen to be in XML. Convenience functions for running around the DOM digging URIs out of message bodies. Possibly some Atom-specific stuff, on the assumption that a lot of the payloads in RESTful conversations will be Atom. For example, you really need Entry#link(rel). A place to stash information about the resources you’ve created and are interacting with, and a cleanup function so you leave the URI space the way it was when you started. - Avi Flax

Sabich (Hebrew: סביח‎) is a food of Middle Eastern origins popular in Israel. It was first brought to Israel by the Iraqi Jews, who used to eat it every Saturday morning. Its name is derived from 'Sabah', 'morning' in Arabic. One vendor in Ramat Gan... - Avi Flax

MarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your portable Mac computer. It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated gues - Avi Flax

We need to express shame and embarrassment about the reports coming out of Iowa, and we need to actively work to change these matters. Then we should ask ourselves if our behavior and our values need improvement. Only if we truly think about these issues - Avi Flax

We need to express shame and embarrassment about the reports coming out of Iowa, and we need to actively work to change these matters. Then we should ask ourselves if our behavior and our values need improvement. Only if we truly think about these issues - Avi Flax

Ehcache is a widely used java distributed cache for general purpose caching, Java EE and light-weight containers. - Avi Flax

Ehcache is a widely used java distributed cache for general purpose caching, Java EE and light-weight containers. - Avi Flax

The greatest website in the world. - Avi Flax

The greatest website in the world. - Avi Flax

Are you having trouble managing your product development or software projects? Are you swamped? Do you have way more than 40 hours of work sitting on your desk--and they've been there for months? Are your projects late? Do your products disappoint... - Avi Flax

Are you having trouble managing your product development or software projects? Are you swamped? Do you have way more than 40 hours of work sitting on your desk--and they've been there for months? Are your projects late? Do your products disappoint... - Avi Flax

[XMPP] is open, standardized, robust, widely-implemented, and straightforward... different than HTTP ... it solves a problem that isn’t easy to solve in the traditional HTTP world: bi-directional, asynchronous, short-latency structured communications. - Avi Flax

[XMPP] is open, standardized, robust, widely-implemented, and straightforward... different than HTTP ... it solves a problem that isn’t easy to solve in the traditional HTTP world: bi-directional, asynchronous, short-latency structured communications. - Avi Flax

Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity's hubristic folly. - Avi Flax