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It's me, Arif N. In this blog I'll write about my adventure related to computer, programming, and anything that I found interesting. I wish you a happy reading.. :D

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Yet Another Introduction to MapReduce (part 2)

Saturday, 13 March, 2010 13:40
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I’m sorry for the long delay from the first part. I’ve been pretty busy lately. On this part, I write about the idea of MapReduce, how is it work, and how it distributes the data and process. This article is heavily referenced from MapReduce paper by Google. I write it again to deepen my knowledge [...]

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Yet Another Introduction to MapReduce (part 1)

Wednesday, 03 February, 2010 10:03
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There are so many article outside about what is MapReduce, the basic concepts behind it, how it works, and many other things. Even that, I still wanna write a little introduction to MapReduce. It’s mandatory, at least for me, to write about “something” in order to understand the “something”. I challenge my understanding about MapReduce [...]

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Programming Hadoop in Netbeans

Saturday, 23 January, 2010 14:25
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Hadoop MapReduce is an Open Source implementation of MapReduce programming model for processing large scale of data in distributed environment. Hadoop is implemented in Java as a class library. There are some distribution for Hadoop, from Apache, Cloudera, and Yahoo! Meanwhile, Netbeans is an integrated development environment (or IDE) for programming in Java and many [...]

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College Students, Your Job is in Danger

Tuesday, 19 January, 2010 06:55
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In my college’s department mailing list, there is an interesting discussion about the quality of IT bachelor degree in the workplace. There are some reasons behind that: The bachelor graduate worker lacking practical skills. They can not answer a fundamental question that every IT or computer science graduate should know. The bachelor graduate worker also [...]

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Research Plan

Monday, 18 January, 2010 05:02
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Howdy, When I was in my college, I tried to implement Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) as a foundation for a distributed Geographical Information Systems (or better known as GIS). My academic advisor at that time told me that this idea is not entirely new, but there are still a lot [...]

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