whenever i see somebody?s list of essential mac applications, i am always a little surprised at how little overlap it has for me. now that i?ve mostly switched over the new macbook pro, here?s the list of applications that i have installed:
acorn ($50): this is a nifty little image editing application. in the last few days, i have been using it to mock up shelving layouts for the store.
bzr (free): this is the distributed version control system of choice at mysql these days.
busysync: it would be nice to keep my google calender and ical in sync. after giving spanning sync a try for a bit, i am giving this a try as an alternative.
delivery status: this dashboard widget is great for tracking the way-too-many packages that i get from amazon and other places.
google notifier (no cost): now that i have switched almost entirely to using gmail, this is useful to let me know when i have new mail.
linkinus ($20): i use this irc client for accessing the com...
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SolidDB for MySQL orphaned by IBMFrom: arjen-lentz.livejournal.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:58:51
Hmm... understandable from a pure business perspective, but not the best outcome for this engine. It didn’t have the highest of profiles and buzz, but I know that users were trying it and liked some of its features. Orphaned open source code tends to not go anywhere, unless someone else picks it up and runs it as a project. See the original announcement with links/refs below:Update on solidDB for MySQLBy: Dhiren Patel (dhiren) - 2008-03-03 12:12Dear Community Members, As you may k...
more 3 strikesFrom: krisbuytaert.be
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:04:26
I’d call this the 3rd strike and everybody knows what happens next
Marc Fleury has some good answers to the most clueless industry reporter around, starting with:
Spring is touting itself as a JBoss replacement. Smart PR, but false. Spring is a development framework comprising wrappers and dependency injection on top of Hibernate and Tomcat runtimes, both developed, and monetized by JBoss.
You can drop some balls, no one can keep track of what’s going on in Open Source land, ...
more Tradeoffs: Updates versus Range QueriesFrom: blogs.tokutek.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:14:00
Sorry for the delay, now on to range queries and lenient updates. Let’s call them queries and updates, for short. So far, I’ve shown that B-trees (and any of a number of other data structures) are very far from the “tight bound.” I’ll say a bound is a tight if it’s a lower bound and you can come up with data structure that matches it.
So how do we match the bandwidth bound for queries and updates? I already mentioned in passing how to do this, bu...
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