johnayres

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   by johnayres 16y ago

   Might be worth checking out Kenya (a subset of Java for beginners, comes with a nice IDE) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/kenya/
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   by johnayres 16y ago

   We use Java, MongoDB, Hadoop and embedded Jetty at MetaBroadcast, we try to keep it simple: no enterprise bloat etc. We've not had any performance issues.
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   by johnayres 16y ago

   If you do decide to go with Java directly consider including Guava (Google's open source common library). http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ We really like the support for higher-order functions, like Iterables.transform (aka map)
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   Atlas, the Global video and audio index launched today(atlasapi.org)

   2 points by johnayres 16y ago|0 comments