mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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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

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: One Hit Wonder Ladies From the 80s
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 02:09:21 GMT

The choice of music for this evening/dawn is totally
made out one hit wonders from the 80s (the best there
are), but all sung by women.

Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RdAzkKlXY

Kim Wilde – Kids in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWZqllm3mQ

Toyah Wilcox – Echo Beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rh2o_uTxFA

Laura Branigan – Self Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUpvJa9FmY

Propaganda (Claudia Brucken) – Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_q58CFfAo

This last one is actually one of my favorite songs.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: We’re Stars
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 02:09:21 GMT

The heavy metal/hard rock version of Hear n Aid is
truly a who’s who of 80s rock/metal and a guitar player
solo feast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AGHguQ_oM

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Weird Games Part 2
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 07 21:35:21 GMT

Did I mention I *really* like weird games?…

http://www.plasmapong.com/
http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/

…ahm.. yes I did…

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Simple Web App Building Request
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 07 20:26:21 GMT

Here’s a simple enough request for all of you who
think that your current web development framework
is right on…

I want to develop a very simple web app: its just
a CRUD interface for a SQL table. Simple enough,
right? I mean there’s Django automated forms, there’s
Ruby on Rails, etc, etc. Hell, I can even do it quick
enough on Zope (with or without Plone or CPS to help).

Now the dificult part: I want to have the logic
interface (the CRUD part) available as a webservice
(WSDL/SOAP or REST); I want to have the UI interface
available as a webservice (WSRP).

Now what?…

For the record I’m currently dabbling with ActiveGrid,
TurboGears and OpenPortal. WSDL is easy enough on the
first two, but no WSRP; WSRP is doable in the third,
but Java continues to suck rocks and doing the WSDL
part seems to be (or to me at least) a nightmare.

http://www.activegrid.com/
http://www.turbogears.org/
https://portal.dev.java.net/

Got any other suggestions?

— MV