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27 February 2009

Open Data

Merck releases a giant hunk o'pharma data. Cool. The site to sign up is Sage

26 February 2009

Key-Value Storage

There was a recent meeting in Tokyo on Key-Value storage.

From that they talked about Memcached.

...Groonga an open-source fulltext search engine.

...Senna an embeddable fulltext search engine

...Lux IO yet another fast database manager

...Tx Succinct Tries

...Repcached

...kai a distributed Amazon Dynamo like hash table

...Flare

...Overlay Weaver - An Overlay Construction Toolkit

22 February 2009

Etoile

Yes, I know, no accents. A recent FLOSS Weekly was on Etoile

20 February 2009

Emulators

An x86 emulator, mostly to run ROMed bios code on plugin cards on non x86 systems

Along those same lines there is always qemu

Scheme

Functional Objects.

Datalog in plt scheme.

16 February 2009

Fonts

Anonymous, a font for programmers - Quite pretty.

Linux

Debian Lenny (5.0) Released.


Bruce O'Neel

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