April 19th, 2011
a draft of the book "Scalability and Availability Aspects" by Walter Kriha. Many up-to-date info on theory and practice of building scalable high-loaded web/internet systems
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April 18th, 2011
This blog is available on IPv6 as of today
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April 15th, 2011
An essay by Peter Norvig showing how to program sudoku solver.
Note: Read this if you are a software developer . Even better is to print it out and read it with a pencil.
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April 15th, 2011
an article (with a lot of useful links, make sure you follow them) about how Ron Jeffries (author of XP programming) solves sudoku algo in a series of 5 blog articles to show his TDD approach. This is was contrasted by Peter Norvig solving the same problem ( http://norvig.com/sudoku.html ) , but in a more clear and concise way.
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April 13th, 2011
this is just great ... at least they notified their users in a timely manner. Change your passwd if you have wordpress.com account.
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April 13th, 2011
Original paper [report] by Watts Humphrey, which is later become the famost CMM book. (Managing the Software Process, by Watts Humphrey, originally published in 1989) . Also see http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=Managing%20the%20Software%20Process
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April 9th, 2011
An excellent (as always) write-up from New Yorker about a rising star in Russian modern politics Alexey Navalny and the current state of corruption in Russia ( fake government contracts, kickbacks, etc). What is interesting to know (and I happen to agree) that Navalny describes current governing elite in Russia as a just a bunch or crooks, i.e. that nowadays there is no such thing as all-powerful KGB or Mafia, but rather a loosely connected network of highly-corrupt officials motivated mostly by personal financial gain.
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April 7th, 2011
Amazon AWS is "PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 -compliant Shared Hosting Provider". i.e. you can build your PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure using EC2, S3, EBS and VPC to store and process payment card data
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April 6th, 2011
VW OEM Service manual for rear brakes for Taureg Models. For Brembo breaks look at the page 25
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April 6th, 2011
It is not always works, but at least give you an idea. Perl6 regex syntax is really different from normal perl and it is not [yet] well documented. Or you can prefix each regex in perl6 with :p5 to make it perl5-compatible
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