Google Tech Talk: Linus Trovald on Git

Tokyo Cabinet: Another Key-Value Database

Tokyo Cabinet is cool because of 2 things:

1. Its name,
2. It spends 0.4 sec writing 1M records.

More and more key-value databases are coming into the web space. I guess they are essential for building the “cloud”.

References:

• Tokyo Cabinet Project Site [SourceForge]
• Ruby binding
• Python Binding
• http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store

Politic: Some interesting facts about Indonesia

Below are some documentaries about past Indonesian politics.

BEWARE: There are violence in these videos.

Why DOS Path Seperator is backslash

In short, it’s because forward slash was taken by many old IBM utilities as ‘switch’ character.

Here’s the article that explains it in detail.

Challenge to Break Python Security

A coder called Tav submitted this challenge. Enjoy!

His module was created with the intent to restrict execution to local filesystem.

Humor: Unusual Passenger on PDX MAX

Coyote on PDX

Apple: Glimpse of MacBook Production

Some of Apple latest marketing tools show us a little bit of its production factory. I aggregate those here for readers enjoyment.