Random links for July 2010

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• db4o open source object database, native to Java and .NET

  db4o is the open source object database that enables Java and .NET developers to store and retrieve any application object with only one line of code, eliminating the need to predefine or maintain a separate, rigid data model.

• Coding Instinct: Sequential Async using CoRoutines

  But I will focus this blog post on one aspect of that sample app which is how Rob implemented async workflows.

• VoltDB: Fast, Scalable, Open-Source SQL DBMS with ACID

  Open-source VoltDB provides a very fast, scalable, fault-tolerant and ACID-compliant, distributed SQL database for transactional (OLTP) applications.

• Greenplum Database 4.0: Critical Mass Innovation

  Greenplum Database 4.0, a major release of Greenplum's industry-leading massively parallel processing (MPP) database product, is the culmination of more than seven years of development.

• Project Voldemort

  It is basically just a big, distributed, persistent, fault-tolerant hash table.

• Catch404 – A jQuery And CSS3 Modal Plugin For Handling Broken Links Elegantly

  Through the magic of jQuery we’re going to catch 404 errors without your users even having to leave the page and then suggest some other options they’ve got using an inline jQuery Modal window.

• WorldWide Telescope

  WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.

• QuicklyCode - Find and share cheat sheets and programming stuff

  Find and share cheat sheets and programming stuff.

• TeamLab – Create Your Enterprise Portal in the Cloud for Free

  TeamLab is a free open-source platform for business collaboration and project management.

• Journyx Presents: jPint - Journyx, Inc.

  jPint is a set of libraries designed by Journyx to allow developers to build web-based applications that look and feel as much like native iPhone apps as possible.

• Open Source Icons - gcons

  Comprehensive collection of 100 creative, open source and multi-purpose icons in 12 colors for the web and desktop applications.

• Aloha Editor - The HTML5 Editor

  The world's most advanced browser based Editor lets you experience a whole new way of editing. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented functionalities.

• CriticalPast.com: Search over 57000 videos and 7 million photos

  View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage.

• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

  The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software running on standard hardware.

• Launchpad

  Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking, Code hosting using Bazaar, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations, Mailing lists, Answer tracking and FAQs, Specification tracking.

• Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor

  Adam Somlai-Fischer and Peter Halacsy started working on Prezi in 2007, as they felt slides limited their ability to develop and explain ideas. Prezi was their response to solve these issues.

• Google API Timeline

  An interactive chart that shows the different Google APIs offered from 2005 to present.

• Matrix Platform

  The platform provides a flexible, reusable, durable environment for building .NET solutions. It is suitable for building desktop, client-server, web based or even cloud computing solutions.

• Model-View-* - UK Application Development Consulting - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  I am writing this post to illustrate my understanding and interpretation of the Model-View-* patterns and their variations so I can refer back to this post later.

• wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions

  This site contains many articles on a number of interesting topics.

• Home - Pencil Project

  The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

• XamlResource.com

  Its purpose is to create a platform to find and share resources for Silverlight and WPF, resources in the form of Xaml.

• MapReduce.org

  MapReduce.org compiles the best information about MapReduce, the software framework popularized by Google to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers.

• Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog

  Most of these datasets are related to machine learning, but there are a lot of government, finance, and search datasets as well.

• How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge

  Images can be found just about everywhere on the mighty internet. Below you’ll find some interesting gateways to larger image collections. Some are for free, some ask for hard bucks.

• (theinfo)

  This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.

• OpenStreetMap

  OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

• VB and C# grammar for VS2010 - Lucian's VBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  Here is language grammar for Visual Basic 10 and for C# 4.0. These are the versions of the languages which shipped with Visual Studio 2010.