- Open Government Information Awareness – Media Lab becomes relevant again
- OpenGroupware.org – finally an OSS exchange alternative? /. discussion
- Small Stories in printed form! Cool. I’ll be dropping by Golden Apple tomorrow, so I’ll be looking for it
- How to Photograph Fireworks – will have to try this out next year
- N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella), by Jason Freeman
- To install: Wonder Shaper
- PeerGuardian 2, a P2P lightweight firewall (seems fruitless), with list of bad IP’s
- Brian’s BitTorrent FAQ and Guide
- XUL Programmer’s Reference (via Bit Banger)
- OSCON 2003 Day Three
Brian Aker, fresh on his new job as Senior Architect at MySQL, shocked the world (or, at least, me) when he announced that he’d embedded Perl in MySQL and was using it for stored procedures a couple of years ago. Of course, it did segfault rather often. Fortunately, it’s highly mature now. In his talk on “Making MySQL Do More”, Brian showed the embedded function API. You can write new functions for MySQL in Perl, Python, PHP, and Java. (Keep asking him about Ruby.) You can link to C libraries; he’s used Image Magick and zlib. I’m excited about how easily you can modify queries . SELECT DIFF(foo) … anyone?
- More ping pong shenanigans [2.4M ASF]