Google Map Parameters : reverse-engineered list of query parameters accepted in Google Maps URLs. great reference!
(tags: maps google hacks reverse-engineering api gmaps reference parameters cgi url)_Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective_ : Google paper on the construction and operation of Chubby, their distributed fault-tolerant database built using the Paxos consensus algorithm
(tags: google algorithms research databases chubby distcomp cs paxos fault-tolerance scalability papers toread)OpenDHT mothballed, halting Adeona : PhDware strikes again: ‘OpenDHT was Sean Rhea’s Ph.D. project back in 2005 and he has decided to officially bow out of maintaining it as of July 1st, which has left the developers of Adeona looking for another back end to store location information and photos.’
(tags: opendht adeona phdware software coding open-source dht security)redbot : ‘RED checks HTTP resources to see how they use HTTP, makes suggestions, and finds common protocol mistakes.’ source available
(tags: http testing protocol conformance compression encoding web validators)Irish Craft Brewer – Brewing: How do I Start? : something to bookmark for my copious free time (yeah right)
(tags: brewing toread toget beer hobbies)bashreduce : interesting hack — apply Map-Reduce idioms to UNIX command lines across multiple machines or cores (via jzawodny, who’s obviously looking at a lot of command line stuff recently ;)
(tags: via:jzawodny algorithms hack last.fm shell cli bash commandline bashreduce distcomp mapreduce networking unix)GNU ‘xargs’ as a parallel process-pool driver : I had no idea it could do this, using its “-P” switch. cool (via jzawodny)
(tags: via:jzawodny xargs parallel forking worker-pool process-pool parallelism multicore unix gnu)