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Binary XML

This paper discusses the use of Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1)

Insightful Presentation

Open Source documentation and collaboration platform

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID
• OSSP uuid

Scheduling

1. Cron
   
2. Spring Batch
3. Quartz
   

Memory Pool

1. Boost
   

More Companies seem to be joining Dataportability.org

Thinking In C++

STL Containers...

Message Broker

The Publish/Subscribe Messaging is one of the flexible ways to implement robust, real-time, distributed, highly available services. I have used TIBCO SmartSockets in my previous projects and love the product. I have wondered whether there is any Open source Implementation, so far I have found:

1. The Spread Toolkit
   
2. D-Bus
   

Pimpl

"The Pimpl technique is a useful way to minimize coupling, and separate interface and implementation."

Resources:

1. Boost Serialization
2. Making Pimpl Easy
3. Compilation Firewalls
4. The Fast Pimpl Idion
   

Virtualization is being applied in all aspects of software development, this DDJ Article recommends for build environment.

google "father of C++" returns Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage . This homepage has useful resources especially technical FAQ.

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Memory Leak

Ah, not my favorite topic, but always interested to find out new ways and tools to debug memory leaks. DDJ, one of my favorite site has an article in the current issue, check it out Memory Leaks Detection: A Different Approach

In Memory Cache

I have used following in my past projects:
Commercial:

1. Oracle TimesTen

Open Source:

1. Memcached

• Client libraries are available in C, Java, PHP, etc.
• Clients partition data across memcached servers using modular hash algorithm 'key % # partitions'.
  
• If an item isn't found in the cache, it's looked up in the source of truth and added to the cache. The extra cost of hitting the source of truth is amortized across all the accesses.
• Distributed Caching with Memcached
  
• Consistent Hashing
  
• FAQ: http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?faq

Testing Tools

I am always thinking about traffic generation tools for stress testing and every company i worked for always seem to be lacking in this area. I have always managed to find good open source traffic generation tools which can be adapted to your personal requirements

Here are a few I bumped into today for Traffic generation:

1. Seagull
   
2. SIPp
   

SWIG

The other day a dear friend of mine mentioned to me about SWIG, I have not personally used this for any project, but seems a potential candidate to bridge the software language islands.

Check out more @ SWIG