Sunday, September 21, 2008

Somebody found Naphtalene in space?

From ScieceDaily...
Using various telescopes in La Palma (including the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo) and Texas, IAC researchers have detected the presence of naphthalene in the interstellar medium in the direction of the star Cernis 52 in the constellation Perseus. This molecule consists of two hexagonal rings of carbon atoms surrounded by hydrogen atoms. (Credit: Sources: Miguel Briganti (IAC), Digital Sky Survey, David Barrado. Credits: Gabriel Pérez, Multimedia Service/IAC)

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Facebook Thrift

Been trying out this one, very nice piece of software.
In the past I've worked with xmlrpc-c but Thrift beats the hell out of XML-RPC the fact that the data is transmitted in binary and the easiness of written client and software code due to the Thrift compiler is a thank you note for big projects that need to be done quickly, if you can please take a look at the following locations:

http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/
http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift_(protocol)

You may download the paper here.