Thursday, August 26, 2010

freesound :: home page

freesound :: home page: "The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter."

Royalty Free Music

Royalty Free Music: "Royalty-Free Music"

Royalty Free Ambient, Hypnosis, and Meditation Music

Royalty Free Music: "Royalty Free Music"

Monday, August 23, 2010

pl/sql library for JSON - www.erasme.com

pl/sql library for JSON - www.erasme.org: "Here is the first release of a PL/SQL package for JSON (Javascript Simple Object Notation). This program is published under the GNU LGPL License.

The package’s features are :
- create and manipulate JSON objects
- add attributes and array to a JSON object
- convert from JSON to string
- convert from String to JSON structure
- debugging function
- customizable output (web or custom)"

JSON/Oracle first package

JSON In (and out) of Oracle – JSON Data Type | Database Geek Blog: "Do you use JSON? Do you use Oracle? How would you like to use JSON in Oracle? How would you like to store it, generate it and read it? I am creating a new JSON data type that will work like XMLType."

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Breakfast

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Breakfast:

"Japanese rendition of Beethoven's fifth symphony set in a restaurant."

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Ozumo - The Experience

Ozumo - Oakland
Monday Sushi Night! $30

Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more

Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more: "With Google Custom Search, you can harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website.

* Include one or more websites, or specific webpages
* Host the search box and results on your own website
* Customize the look and feel of the results to match your site"

Friday, August 20, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

james david low / work / OpenTerminalHere and AntHere

james david low / work / OpenTerminalHere and AntHere: "Here are my modifications to OpenTerminalHere."

Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals in C

Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals in C:

"// Note: The following is all standard-conforming C , this is not a hypothetical language extension."

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Smoothie Charts

Smoothie Charts: "Smoothie Charts is a really small charting library designed for live streaming data. I built it to reduce the headaches I was getting from watching charts jerkily updating every second. What you're looking up now is pretty much all it does. If you like that, then read on."

Friday, August 06, 2010

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing: "Peter Deutsch
Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences.
1. The network is reliable
2. Latency is zero
3. Bandwidth is infinite
4. The network is secure
5. Topology doesn't change
6. There is one administrator
7. Transport cost is zero
8. The network is homogeneous
For more details, read the article by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz"

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Ksplice � Learning by doing: Writing your own traceroute in 8 easy steps - System administration and software blog

Ksplice � Learning by doing: Writing your own traceroute in 8 easy steps - System administration and software blog: "The rest of this post will walk through implementing a very primitive version of traceroute in Python. The real traceroute is of course more complicated than what we will create, with many configurable features and modes. Still, our version will implement the basic functionality, and at the end, we’ll have a really nice and short Python script that will do just fine for performing a simple traceroute."

Damien Katz: Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0

Damien Katz: Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0: "So how did I get here? It took a lot of time and effort (almost 5 years!), and the help of a lot of people. Here are some tips of what it took to get CouchDB to 1.0."

Main Page - P4Spam

Main Page - P4Spam: "P4Spam :: HTML-styled Perforce change review daemon

P4Spam is a Perforce change review daemon which spits out sexy HTML-styled notification emails.

P4Spam was inspired by CVSspam, a great tool for use with CVS or Subversion."

Monday, August 02, 2010

Backing up Blogger sites

To grab your latest 1000 posts:
To grab your latest 1000 posts in XML:
To fetch the associated images:
A handy online pretty-printer.