Development

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=548788 DSN-less connection for VB/Classic ASP to PostgreSQL/ODBC on windows

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page BTRFS is a new ZFS-like linux file system, it is present in the recent kernels with “experimental” status.

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=719815 post to russian postgresql forum that describes 2 ways to simulate materialize views on postgres

http://gitcasts.com/ screen casts tutorials for basic git usage

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=701376 how to get fast random select in postgres

http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2009/09/nginx-internals-slides-video/ very good presentation slides explaining nginx internals, such as main architecture, main event loops, core modules, processing pipelines, etc. Also there is a video of the talk , but it is mandarin, so YMMV :-)

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/hi/69457/#habracut high-load web notification system or how to do persistent connections in ajax/js. Useful for counters, friend-status updates and so on. Example is given for libevent-based daemon in perl.

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ seems to a rare thing: a message queue server, running as a native code

http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive281.html explains how to build a .DLL in C# with COM interface, so it can be used by other manageable/unmanageable code (i.e. VB, C++, etc)

http://search.cpan.org/~daveroth/Win32-Scheduler_v20000702/lib/Win32/Scheduler.PM#Example:_Install_the_service perl module to run perl as Win32 service