Mind the gap

Native XML DBMS

Sedna XML DBMS is a native full-featured data management system. § Support for the W3C XQuery language § Support for a declarative update language § Native XML data storage structures designed for efficient support for both queries and updates (no underlying relational or another DBMS). The XML data storage is based on descriptive schema (also called DataGuide) § Efficient support for stand-alone XML documents with […]

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Road Rage Cards

Sometimes I become irritated when I drive a car. Because drivers who surround me go very-very slowly and make stupid, abrupt manoeuvre (it’s only my opinion, I could be wrong). So, resently I’ve discovered a site with Road Rage Cards and I’ve though “I’m not solitary!”

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LJ: Power-loss post-mortem

I had a little problems with update my Livejournal last week. So, I’ve found an explanation what happened with LJ: Power-loss post-mortem written by Brad Fitzpatrick. It’s really difficult to recover so complicated system.

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ELVIS’S CADILLACS

All of you know that Elvis Presley was the rock-n-roll king. But do you know that Elvis had many hobbies and one of them was called ‘Cadillac’! Here you can see all Elvis’s Cadillacs in chronological order. Those cars are worthy of the king, aren’t they?

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Howto create JAPH

Recently I’ve stumbled across the article “The elegance of JAPH”. It discovers secrets of creation JAPH – “Just another Perl hacker”. Sure, sometimes using of JAPH proncipes indicates the level of Perl programmer and makes a code more efficient . But in other hand, it makes a code a difficult for understanding. So, I think it’s a good idea to split fun stuff and development. […]

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Perl One Liners

Another nice article about Perl: Perl One Liners. It shows how to effective use Perl in command line. Sure, the better way is to use Shell for that but it’s more habitual to type ‘Perl -e “…”‘ for real Perl Monks 🙂

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A push proxy gateway on Linux

Recently I’ve found an interesting article “Build a push proxy gateway on Linux” which is a sequel of other article “Build a WAP gateway on Linux”. Both of them will be useful if you need to develop solutions for mobile phones.

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New Limassol Theatres Schedule

At once two intersting movies start at the coming weekend: an adventure action “National Treasure” with Nicolas Cage in key role and a thriller “Elektra”. “National Treasure” is a story about big treasures of US which was hidden by the Founding Fathers and there is an only one way to know the place where are those treasures – to read very carefully the Declaration of […]

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