DBSight - The Ultimate Faceted Database Search
“Information Retrieval” as a science has attained a certain level of maturity and we are seeing a lot of companies offering nice products making use of the most advanced techniques. I recently came accross such a product that’s worth mentioning here. I was able to set it up on my pc in less than 3 minutes. It comes with a very easy to use web interface. It makes use of JDBC to retrieve data from virtually any database. You can specify an SQL query to specify the search able records. DBSight automatically retrieves the records from database, creates the search index and it can automate the process as per a schedule specified by you. The figure below shows the possibilities for search results retrieval once an index has been created.
DBSight Overview
Twisted - The Ideal Internet Server Engine
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If you need to create an internet server, be it an email server, dns server, web server, chat server or a web 2.0 server: You should consider using the Twisted framework. The Twisted framework is written entirely in Python and is very easy to program. It makes use of event driven network programming to provide excellent scalability and performance. Any one who is familiar with programming the Python programming language can effortlessly make use of the Twisted Framework.
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Parallax’s Propeller Cogs
The Propeller micro-controller design reminds me of Cogswell Cogs from Jetsons. High-tech, technology of the future… May be Elroy used to program these things when he grew up 
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