MySQL :: A Quick Look at MySQL 5.4
info on some nice changes coming in MySQL 5.4, particuarly subquery optimisations
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How to make really nice buttons — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
Reading through the lines
Alan Fells on why removing parallel import restrictions on books is the right thing to do. I've never considered myself a Free Trader, but his arguments make more sense to me than the publishing lobby's.
Consuming OAuth intelligently in Rails
Pixel Perfect Firefox Extension
Firefox extension to overlay graphics on a developed site so you can see where you’re off from what the designer intended.
Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds | Linux Magazine
Hardcopy Books
Rubygems Good Practice « Katz Got Your Tongue?
Python GStreamer Tutorial
advene.player.gstreamer
a few useful pygst and gst-launch examples. Including tiling!
GEntrans: Home page
a gstreamer based transcoder. written in python, has some helpful documentation on building transcoding pipelines
FireWire Cat 5 400Mbps Repeater Kit
MySQL :: Unicode and Other Funny Characters
Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices
ongoing · The Hunger Barrier
Tim Bray on the evils of developed world agriculture subsidies. Great article.
Emphasized Insanity: MySQL replication and Rails
Freemium - Shmeemium — LM Framework
WE ARE ALL AFRICAN NOW | More Intelligent Life
Interesting article about Spencer Wells Genographic Project and some of its implications
GLib Reference Manual
Smart JS Polling - GitHub
nice simple article on AJAX polling with increasing delays between polls
GObject Reference Manual
off minor - GStreamer bin for playing AVI files programmatically
hand gstreamer sample code in c
VidBlaster - Video Production at Your Fingertips!
`Dragonmount` | I have read The Gathering Storm
A short history of btrfs [LWN.net]
a really nice low level look at btrfs. Also predicts it will be the primary Linux FS within 2 years.
Dirac | Video Compression
How do I encode lossless? (Page 1) - Avidemux-English - Avidemux2 Forum
Schroedinger Encoder Parameters - Diracvideo
Advanced GStreamer concepts(页 1)
ChadFowler.com How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life
Chad Fowler makes a convincing argument for learning a second human language