Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Weekly Link Selection
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 14:59:21 GMT
Or should we say weakly link selection? Its a slow week…
We Worship MD5, the GOD of HASH
http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/md5_tutorial.html
Hashes (and hash tables and distributed hash tables)
are unfortunately not well known and misunderstood by
a lot of techies…
And yet there are people building amazing stuff using
them…
Using S3 as an infinitely large disk device (that never breaks)
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10271
Taking on a simpler view of technology, this might be of
use to simpler non-enterprisey projects:
KirbyBase For Python
http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_python.html
“KirbyBase is a simple database management system, written in
pure-Python, that stores its data in plain-text files.”
— MV
