In my haste to get up and running on iOS7 for my iPhone 5, I forgot to register my device onto the developer portal – doh! I did the pre-requiste steps of: – Registering as an iOS developer (well, re-register for me but that’s besides the point) – Download iOS7 – Backup my iPhone 5 – Click on option-Restore iPhone in iTunes, selected the iOS7 ipsw – and then I let it rip! Yet because I forgot to register my phone got stuck on the activation phase – doh! . How to get the UUID if I was patient If I…
Month: June 2013
Hadoop/Hive – Writing a Custom SerDe (Part 1)
Rui Martin has started a great blog post series on how to write a custom SerDe. The first post of the series, he provides the fundamentals as noted in the diagram below. For more information, please review Rui’s great post: Hadoop/Hive – Writing a Custom SerDe (Part 1).
Jump Start on Apache Kafka 0.8 with Scala 2.9.2 on Mac OSX
I have run the calculations a dozen times, the grid should be enough to bring about fusion and power the device. But, to be sure, I won’t know until I press the freaking button. — Lucas, Continuum Season 1, Episode 2, “Fast Times” — As noted by Lucas and typical of most Big Data Analytics projects, the calculations may be right but that doesn’t mean its going to work. Fortunately, that is NOT the case for running Apache Kafka 0.8 with Scala 2.9.2 on Mac OSX Mountain Lion. In fact this jump start guide really points to some key…