C++ containers that save memory and time

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The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.

Tanguy Ortolo: Using the UDF as a successor of FAT for USB sticks

Planet Debian

USB sticks are traditionally formatted with FAT 32, because this file system is implemented by almost every operating system and device. Unfortunately, it sucks, as it cannot use more than 2 TiB, store files larger than 2 GiB or store symbolic links for…

Removing Core Data iCloud Syncing

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Jumsoft: > After a rather frantic month of dealing with the unfortunate iCloud sync, we made an always-difficult decision: to do a U-turn. (Via Michael Tsai. You should subscribe to his feed.) I almost never worry about the future of Apple — but, when I…

Image Management

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Patrick Hughes says Down with Magic Strings! on Cocoa Is My Girlfriend. And provides the necessary Python.

Joining Zend Technologies

Planet Mozilla

MySQL 5.6: Improvements in the Nutshell

MySQL Performance Blog

Preparing for my talk for Percona MySQL University in Raleigh,NC, Tuesday 29th of January I have created the outline of improvements available in MySQL 5.6 which I thought was worth sharing to give a feel for how massive work have been done for this…

Five things you can do to make HTML5 perform better

Planet Mozilla

⚡️Five things you can do to make HTML5 perform better During the last few weeks we were busy helping developers to convert their HTML5 apps from platforms like WebOS and ChromeOS to FirefoxOS and the target hardware this operation system is right now…

Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup

MySQL Performance Blog

Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I…

How To Make Your Team’s Code Better

Planet Mozilla

Improving the overall code quality is a challenge. You work really hard at writing quality code, but bugs still slip in and code isn’t quite up to standards each and every time. It’s frustrating to you that there’s not a way to catch some or all of these…

Webinar on Read/Write Splitting with PHP

MySQL Performance Blog

I’ll be presenting a webinar next Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time), about issues application developers should think about for scaling out read-query traffic using multiple MySQL instances in a replication pair. Specifically, about the care…