links for 2006-08-16
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En homenaje a los 15 años del web, The Guardian elige 15 sitios web que han cambiado el mundo. Encabeza la lista eBay, le siguen Wikipedia, Napster, YouTube, Blogger..
Xeround is a new MySQL storage engine offered as Database-as-a-Service. What it promises sounds (a bit?) too good to be true (nb this list have been extracted from their site): seamless replacement of existing MySQL database high availability (including schema changes) automatic fault-detection and recovery full consistency with low latency elastic …
Steponas Kazakevicius has written up a new tutorial about file uploading and, more specifically, making an upload tool that can handle interruptions. Have you ever been to a website that offers downloads of stuff? And while you are waiting for the download, there are lots of ads around? Sure you have. I have too. The last day I was downloading stuf …