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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

alter-ego - A Reactive AI Library

http://nakkaya.com/2010/06/29/alter-ego-a-reactive-ai-library/

> alter-ego is a reactive AI library based on the concept of behavior trees. Behavior trees combines a number of AI techniques such as Hierarchical State Machines, Scheduling, Planning, and Action Execution. Their strength comes from the fact that it is very easy to see logic, they are fast to execute and easy to maintain.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

VoltDB Decapitates Six SQL Urban Myths

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/28/voltdb-decapitates-six-sql-urban-myths-and-delivers-internet.html

VoltDB: a pure SQL, pure ACID, pure OLTP, shared nothing, sharded, scalable, lockless, open source, in-memory DBMS, purpose-built for running hundreds of thousands of transactions a second. VoltDB claims to be 100 times faster than MySQL, up to 13 times faster than Cassandra, and 45 times faster than Oracle, with near-linear scaling.

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Monday, June 28, 2010

Clojure's n00b attraction problem

A good article from Greg Slepak:

http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem

Clojure is a beautiful language, but if its community wants more people to appreciate the language, then it may want to consider making the getting started experience beautiful too.

They're working on it. I think it's still early in the game, but once Clojure 1.2 is done, it makes sense for the community to work on the initial programming experience.

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Friday, June 25, 2010

JGC: What's wrong with Flash Cookies?

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/whats-wrong-with-flash-cookies.html

All the major web browsers have control for regular HTTP cookies built in. In contrast, none of them provide control of Flash Cookies. That's a pity since we know that people delete their HTTP cookies very regularly. If you want to delete them then you need to visit this page on Adobe.com.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Stop Forking with CSS3: eCSStender

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/stop-forking-with-css3/

I decided to build a JavaScript library that supports clean living (or at least clean CSS): eCSStender. [...] Boiled down to its essence, eCSStender (pronounced “extender”) is a JavaScript library (akin to jQuery or Prototype) specifically built for working with CSS. On its own, eCSStender doesn’t do anything but analyze your stylesheets. When powering “extensions,” however, eCSStender allows you to use properties such as @border-radius and selectors like@.seven:nth-child(even) without having to resort to forks or hacks.

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