Bookmarks for November 9th through November 15th
These are my links for November 9th through November 15th:
- Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? - Times Labs Blog - This is the graph the record industry probably doesn’t want you to see.
- CouchDB: The Definitive Guide - The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios.
- SPDY Protocol (Chromium Developer Documentation) - Speedy extends HTTP to enable faster throughput by enabling multiplexing, compressing headers better and enabling prioritised requests.
- Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript - An interesting examination of the new Google Closure library that shows that it may not be without it's flaws.
- Google opensources the Go programming language - Google has open-sourced a new programming language. Remember that Google's opinion of almost everything is "if it isn't invented here, it can't be good". It's a pity that this seems to hold true for so many things Google turns their eye to.
- The Story - Once upon a time there was a storytelling conference - Once upon a time there was a storytelling conference, and it look really cool!
- node.js - Evented I/O for V8 server-side javascript. - This looks pretty amazingly cool. Building on twisted and other asynchronous callback event based concurrent systems, this looks like an easy simple way to build massively concurrent web applications
- PayPal X Developer Network - Paypal has launched it's new developer friendly API
- Introducing Closure Tools - Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we've built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We're happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.
- 30 Free Android Icons - The package includes 30 PNG menu icons plus the additional source files for further customization.
- Why Git is Better Than X - Where x is one of (hg, bzr, svn, perforce) - funny, irreverent and true!