Development

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/09/cache-performance-comparison/ gives you an idea how different caching methods perform. Read it before implementing something

http://vadiml.livejournal.com/1582.html Article in russian part of LiveJournal deals with writing perl XS wrappers around C++ classes

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx notes about testing for valid email addr syntax

http://www.pernau.at/kd/voip/bookmarks-sip-stacks.html comparation of SIP client libraries – not much of a comparation but a list of available SIP stacks with short notes

http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620377 sane notes about storing binary data in Postgres. Basically bytea is ASCII representaion of bynary data wich requires decoding / escaping (read: slow) and large objects a kind of ok, but not trigger-based replication compartable

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ Good article that explain basic version control tasks and how to do them with git. Other git how-to articles start with how git differs from other vcs’es and explain about git internals and by doing that they create a huge deal of confusion.

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-45.pdf a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.

http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ ODBC wrapper for sqlite libs, coss platform: binaries are available for win32, os x, linux

http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.

http://www.timesys.com/products/processors/intel/intel-ixp425 page lists some details about intel ixp4xx combo-cpu’s and there are some useful notes as to what kernel config options should be enabled. Timesys uses 2.6.16.10