Mind the gap

Interesting Google Services

Google is the most famous and power search system in the computer world! But Google doesn’t stay on that and it evolves constantly and offers new services and tools. I’d like to show you the most interesting (in my opinion) from them:

Google Desktop Search allows you make a search in the Internet and on your computer using Google Search Engine. It’s very useful for MS Windows users because they don’t have any tools for quick search like Linux utility localte

Picasa Photo Organizer allows you find, organize and do things with our digital pictures.

Blogger allows you space and tools to create your web blog.

Web APIs allow you develop your own applications using Google APIs.

Also, Google offers email service with free storage 1,000 megabytes and possibility to use it like external hard drive in your computer.
And finally, I’ve heard that Google’s started to develop its own web browser to make up competition to IE.

Memory Object Caching System

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
It supports Perl, PHP, Python and Java. Developers of LiveJournal.com have used memcached to speed up access of LiveJournal users and visitors.

Code To HTML converter

Once I’ve needed to convert an example of Perl code to HTML to hightlight it. I’ve made a big Google search and found Code2HTML.
It’s a Perl script which parses source code and generates HTML page with hightlighted code. Code2HTML is easy in use and supports Ada, Awk, C, C++, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, SQL, ruby.
Many thanks to Peter Palfrader who developed that utility.

Perl Based CMS

Krang is an open-source content-management system designed to publish magazine websites. It is a Perl application which uses Apache/mod_perl and MySQL.

Web Services Integration Patterns

I’ve found a good article –
Web Services Integration Patterns on the webservices.xml.com. It can be interesting and helpful for developers who want to have a clear and universal solution to create web service on Java. When you read that article and make some simple examples you will be able to develop good production code!

New Holiday Photos

I’ve uploaded another part of our photos in St Petersburg – St Petersburg 2004. It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world! There are many interesting places. And it can take a lot of time to visit at llist the most famous of them.
I hope you’ll be interesting to see views of Severnaya Palmira!

New movies in Limassol cinemas

So, I came back last week. And now I’ll update the cinema schedule routinely.
You can see at that week just another comics about woman (Halle Berry) who has exceptional ability like Superman, Spiderman etc. Well, people dream about some exceptional ability which help them to reach the target. And Hollywood producers exploit that idea successfully!
Also, you can be interesing in sequel of the saga about super agent Bourne – “The Bourne Supremacy” (a chase in Moscow by taxy is incredible!!!) and another seaquel about malicious sharks – “Open Water”.
Check Limassol cinema schedule before go to cinema!

KDE Performance Tips

KDE is my favourite desktop for Linux. So, sometimes I need to speed up it. But there are many parameters in the KDE configuration. Lately I’ve found interesting link – KDE Performance Tips. This page describes some tips to improve KDE performance. I think it will be useful for people who use KDE.