Tech Stuffs n' More

If you have been following my blog you might have noticed my interest in the technology surrounding today's Web. I would suggest you to read  this  then  this  and finally  this  so you can have an idea of what my point of view is and how it have evolved on this subject. I would like to quote myself on the first one posted around 2005: In my vision of what future may be the OS and the Internet will be fused together so everything we will have to care about its what browser to use, because every tool, program, game will be hosted in the Internet. So all we will need its a great broadband connection and a good browser/OS to link us to all that.  Some call it Web 2.0 but to me its going an step further. Specially after recent announcement of Amazon's Kindle Fire and even more with its companion Amazon Silk browser which in few words is a split-architecture part device part cloud powered browser. Sounds familiar right? You might want to take a look ...

Having participated in projects where Solr is the component chosen as a search engine I've found myself most of the times annoyed about the lack of realtime indexing and performance degradation as indexes grow. Solr works great on environments where indexes aren't generated with much frequency but as the web evolves and new contents are generated on a continuous way the demand of indexing+querying simultaneously grows. The following article shows elasticsearch as one alternative to this scenario:  Realtime Search: Solr vs Elasticsearch

If you want to know how combining the virtues of complex event processing, business process management and the service oriented architecture could work together you should take a look on  this  entry " How does CEP fit into BPM and SOA environments? "  of the TIBCO  Complex Event Processing blog .

During the past few months I have developed an interest on the stock market and the possibilities around it. As a tech oriented person I couldn't help myself to believe that it's possible to make use of available technologies or ones to be developed to improve the performance on an ecosystem where changes occur in matter of seconds and where sometimes simple human reaction is not fast enough. Together with a small group of trusted people I joined an initiative to look for a way to just do that. The chosen tool for it was to develop AI  algorithms as a way to obtain predictions for possible transactions. It has been a rough year that has led me to a roller-coaster of impressions about whether it is possible to achieve our goal. Starting with the natural first reaction of skepticism and the following growth of believing it is actually possible to predict some sort of market behavior. Eventually some disillusionment happened and it was time to step back ...

Since I haven't come up with something to post on the blog. I'll share a comic strip done with  stripgenerator . Looks like a really cool tool for creating comic strips and testing your creativity. Pizza time by rob_ansuini This is harder than sudoku! Uhm probably someone with a lot more creativity than me will make a better use of it. Looks fun though.