Inklings: 2008-03

Laura and Elly get their names in print! I know famous peoples! :-) The article’s about the girl geek’s dinner and about the lack of participation by women in tech events and the tech industry in general.

The Ten Commandments of Unicode

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Yup!

ACM Code of Ethics

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acoc - Arbitrary Command Output Colourer

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Programmer's Toolbox Part 3: Consistent Hashing

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How serendipitous! I’ll need this in a bit.

Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web

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The SGI C Source Compliance Requirements

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Not my cup of tea, but the model used for representing them is good.

Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies

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:-( Use bugmenot to view.

Python code complexity micro-tool

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Why war sucks

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Black Guy Asks Nation For Change

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Somebody’s going to hell. :-D

mysql_cluster

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Mysql_cluster is a Django DB backend supporting master-slave MySQL replication. It works by switching global Django’s DB connection between master database and slave replicas allowing usage of two connections from within standard ORM.

Asking as a Substitute for Thinking

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Hmmm…

Standing in Line

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We need a decent open source pub/sub message queue.

wxMozilla

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A project that aim to create a wxWidgets component so that Gecko can be embedded in a wxWidgets app.

Gnome Clock applet - using ICS calendar

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Damn, this is hacky, but it might be a gateway to being able to integrate some other calendaring app into the GNOME clock-apple’s calendar.

Evolution Data Server Architecture

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Another avenue, even if it means sticking with EDS.