Intel open-sourced their TBB product today. 

Quoting the article:  "The aim of TBB, ..., is to make it easier for coders in C++ to express task-level parallelism"

Pfft.  Have these hacks never heard of D?  ;)  In any case, worth a look, to see if Tango can borrow anything...

 
 

Kirk McDonald has been doing a fine job of maintaining the D lexer in Pygments, which is used to highlight syntax in dsource's wiki and code-browser.  And he gets some insane turn-around times by the Pygments SVN committers, unless he's one already.

In any case, a mere few hours after Walter had announced the new Traits feature, bringing a bit of compile-time reflection to D, Kirk had the highlighter updated.  http://www.dsource.org has been updated with this new version, so start using traits in your code.

 
Mnesia and S3 07/23/2007
 

Joel Reymont has hacked Mnesia around a bit and added a new storage type.  In addition to 'ram_copies' and 'disc_copies' node types, Mnesia can now have Amazon S3 nodes (s3_copies).

He hacked the Mnesia internals pretty hard, but (from TFA):

I would say it was worth it, though, as I now can
- lock S3 buckets or "records" using {Bucket, Key}
- update several S3 records in a single transaction
- set up additional s3_copies replicas using mnesia:add_table_copy/3
- ensure that data is only written to S3 once
- have a large cluster of Yaws nodes use a small cluster of "master" Mnesia nodes with s3_copies replicas, thus keeping replication and transaction costs down.

I believe this was contract work, but I think the help he received from Ulf Wiger and others, plus the cruel and unusual punishment of announcing the results to us, is hopefully enough to compel him to release it as open-source at some point.  I am certainly interested.  Although I will admit that for a small- to mid-sized web app, Amazon EC2 and S3 are not too cost-effective just yet. 

 
 

So I delurked a bit and got into the Atlanta entrepreneur scene by attending David Ratajczak's Young and Restless meetup last nite.  I could only stay for the first part, but it seemed well-attended by, say, 25-30 people.

People are doing some interesting ventures right now.  Sanjay is just hanging out after Digital Envoy sold recently.  Trevor rents golf equipment across the country.  Sanjay (ATDC, Izenda) has made a very similar offering to my day job.  And David R. has many things in the hopper.

It was quite encouraging to have only 5-6 conversations (before I had to leave) and all of them were damn interesting.  It gives me hope that things get done outside of Boston and Silicon Valley...  Also, I'll stay for more of the next event for sure.  Also, this is a vote for keeping things ITP, but I'll venture outside for meetups of this caliber.

Cheers