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links for 2008-02-17

February 17, 2008
  • brad’s life - A proposal: email to URL mapping

    Proposal for how to use an email address as an openid

    (tags: email identifier openid)

  • Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian

    “If you believe a scary US report, reading is on the decline. But, says Steven Johnson, it completely fails to consider the amount that we do every day on our computers”

    (tags: literacy web)

  • Adapting Ambitiously — err.the_blog

    A nice attempt to produce an approach to querying in ruby that not only works with ActiveRecord but with other types of data stores too.

    (tags: activerecord ambitiously querying ruby)

  • Borders Signs Lulu to Power Self-Publishing Tools

    “Borders is now teaming up with self-publishing tool Lulu to extend its services to customers that would like to create their own book.”

    (tags: books borders lul publishing)

  • A Visual Guide to Version Control | BetterExplained

    A good looking explanation. Could come in handy when I next have to introduce someone to subversion or the like

    (tags: subversion vcs)

  • MySQL AB :: MySQL Information Schema Plugins: the best kept secret of MySQL 5.1

    “MySQL 5.1 offers an extremely useful feature called information_schema plugins. This feature allows dynamic runtime loading of a shared library into the MySQL server to implement a table in the information_schema database.”

    (tags: architecture database mysql plugin)

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