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FUSE for HDFS

Working with HDFS has many benefits, but there’s one disadvantage that for me, at least, was very painful and that is that it doesn’t behave like other POSIX file system. If you want to access the filesystem, you have to use it via the hadoop -fs commands…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.

Euler Project Problems 1-3 in Scala

As with when I learned Ruby, I find Project Euler to be an extremely useful way both to learn a language and its idioms and also flex my math muscles every once in a while. Since I’m starting to learn Scala, I decided to start answering the problems there again (the last time I got to 33) and thought I’d share what I came up with here…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

A Fresh Start

Since January 2010, I’ve been working at LivePerson, as a Senior Java Developer and ScrumMaster. It’s now time to move on – I will be joining … You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.