Hugh Neale

Gearing up for lanuch of Mint Panel

The launch of Mint Panel is getting closer, consequently new hardware has been purchased to cope with the growing number of BETA testers. In addition, each machine has been fitted with 8GB of RAM to run virtual machines.

Mint Panel’s flikr can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39414420@N04/

Apache ANT & C++

Came across a very annoying problem today when using another PC to compile the ant compiler could not “launch cl” (Could not launch cl: java.io.IOException)

jni-cc:
[echo] jni libname=mpsys-x86-winnt
[cc] 17 total files to be compiled.
BUILD FAILED
C:\Documents and Settings\MP Developer\Desktop\mpsys\bindings\java
\mintpanel_jni\jni-build.xml:234: The following error occurred while 
executing this line:
C:\Documents and Settings\MP...

Hadoop, Nutch and Clusters

I have spent the last few days playing with Hadoop a solution for clustering computers together to spread the work load for searching through large indexes of data in some cases spanning up to 2000 nodes. Unfortunately, my cluster only consists of 8. Nutch on the other hand is Apache’s search engine which can be used together with hadoop to search over indexes spread across multiple nodes. I have only been experimenting with this for a few hours and so far have managed to set up all my nodes...

Digg Nation London FOWA

Diggnation was awesome to say the least! There were so many people and free drinks from facebook and Google who can complain? If you look really closely I’m in that crowed right down at the front :D

http://revision3.com/diggnation/2008-10-17fowa/

Mint Panel Private BETA Launch

Mint Panel has officialy started their private BETA invite head on over to http://mintpanel.com now to register.