lauchl.in

Interesting links from 25th February 2009

At home sick today so caught up on some very dry reading.  A lot of old links here but interesting none the less if you are in to designing scalable platforms for hosting web applications.

• Scalable Linux Clusters with LVS, Part I - http://tag1consulting.com/Scalable_Linux_Clusters_with_LVS_Part_I
  Intro to using LVS for load balancing.
  
• Design Patterns - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignPatterns
  Good reference for development documenting some handy "design patterns".
  
•  Network Design Patterns: N-Tier Data Centers - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1003/817-3997.pdf
  A pdf from sun written a few years back talking about network design patterns for data centres.
  
• Network Naming Schemes - http://www.namingschemes.com/Main_Page
  For those stuck trying to think up an original naming scheme for their network.
  
• Domain Name Humor - http://www.domainhandbook.com/humor1.html
  Some light humour after all the dry material.
  
• RFC 1178 - Choosing a name for your computer - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178
  There is even an RFC to help you name your computer.
  
• Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars - http://www.gravatar.com/
  Why not add gravatars to your software?
  

Interesting links from 22nd February 2009

• Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/
  a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers
• The Crippling Fear of Corriearklet - http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/oped/the_crippling_fear_of_corriearklet.php
  What it is like to commute in London
• Apache Velocity Engine - http://velocity.apache.org/engine/index.html
  Velocity is a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.