Just enough Architecture!

I would say, every aspiring software architect should watch this video atleast once!! Very insightful and gives you good amount of idea on where to start!

Hadoop MapReduce Sort

Sort by Reducer value

HBase Query Results to File

1. Create a file hbase_query with all your HBase Queries
2. Run the following command
cat hbase_query | hbase shell > hbase_output

How to type control characters into a file using Vi

Its simple.. For example if you need to write ^@ in a file in unix
1. Open the file in insert mode using vi
2. Use the keys in the order they have been listed
(ctrl+v) + (ctrl+@)
All it means is keep the ctrl key pressed and use v & @ in close succession

CSS 2.0

I thought CSS was simple, I underestimated the power of CSS
Only when I started evangelizing did I know how cool CSS is
Here are the slides to the CSS tutorial I came up in the process :)
http://www.slideshare.net/hbshashidhar/css-20