Programming

Harald Welte's blog -- Paper: Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphones

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/04/14/#20100414-anatomy_of_gsm_cellphone An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation

[cross-lang object serialization library] The MessagePack Project

http://msgpack.sourceforge.net/ “MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.” cpan Data::MessagePack

L-peer in the software world: Switching from C# to Java [REDHAT Virtualization Platform Management App re-write]

http://lpeer.blogspot.com/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java.html Great post about challenges that one team inside of Redhat faced when they were challenged with the task of migrating C#/IIS/MS-SQL-based VM management tool into Java. The post is more interested from the project management perspective, than from the technology side.

Syntax - re2 - I define UNIX as “30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.” —Don Knuth - Project Hosting on Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/re2/wiki/Syntax list of syntax supported by new regexp lib from google

Perfomance: C vs Java [Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog]

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2009/09/java-vs-c-performance-again.html somewhat useful comparative review

Jon Schutz Technical Notes and Recommendations » Perl client for Facebook’s scribe logging software

http://notes.jschutz.net/2009/04/perl-client-for-facebooks-scribe-logging-software/ Describes how to build thrift (cross-platform service/RCP framework from facebook) modules for scribe client (high-performance async log aggregator server from facebook). Also see Log::Dispatch::Scribe on CPAN

THIRD RAIL » Memcached based message queues

http://3.rdrail.net/blog/memcached-based-message-queues/ Blog pots shows and explains how to implement simple queue system on top of memcached

Message Queue Evaluation Notes - Second Life Wiki

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_Notes Second Life notes about Message Queue Systems

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-HTTP-1.44/HTTP.pm

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-HTTP-1.44/HTTP.pm A Perl module that uses AnyEvent “framework” to do HTTP/1.0 requests in a parallel, non-blocking fashion

Open Source Queueing and Messaging Systems? (by Jeremy Zawodny)

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010511.html notes on existing open source queue/messaging systems