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June 2009
May 2009
March 2009
Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest Launched
by bhartzer
Will Spencer the owner of Net Builders has recently kicked off another SEO (search engine optimization) contest called the the Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest.
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February 2009
Carakan
by Xavier Lacot
The announcement of Carakan, Opera's new ECMAScript Engine, using register-based bytecode instruction set. The first benchmarks show that Carakan is about two and a half times faster at the SunSpider benchmark than the ECMAScript engine in Presto 2.2 from Opera 10 Alpha.
The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World
by rax262
& 1 other
(via)
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.
It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.
January 2009
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
by greut
& 2 others
LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
I love umlaut.
December 2008
October 2008
Upcoming Browser JavaScript Engine Benchmarks
by Xavier Lacot
Internet Explorer 7 scores an abysmal 90522ms. (...) IE8-beta2 scored at 9542ms. But, for reference, in the same virtual environment Firefox "Minefield" was still able to pull off 1873ms. So, as while still no where near as fast as the other guys, IE8 is lightyears ahead of IE7 in its javascript performance.
Habari Project
by damdec
& 5 others
Habari is next-generation blogging.
Download Habari or try the demo and help our community design the future of blogs.
September 2008
May 2008
SearchMonkey - YDN
by Xavier Lacot
& 1 other
Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
Yay ! Semantic Web appearing ?
April 2008
Google App Engine Blog: Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog
by springnet
This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000 developers who sign up, and we plan to increase that number in near future.
March 2008
The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
by Xavier Lacot
& 3 others
Yahoo opens to the semantic web.
A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.
February 2008
Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
by Xavier Lacot
& 3 others
Sphinx is a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).
January 2008
Re-Animator - Bringing Old Games Back to Life
by jdrsantos
Re-Animator is a development framework written in C++ using SDL and various other Open Source libraries. It allows you to write high-performance 2D sprite-based graphical applications (like games!) using just XML and JavaScript.
December 2007
