links for 2009-02-23

Back to the Future for Data Storage

really excellent piece by Joe that summarizes far more succinctly than I ever have the rapidly evolving database options beyond the one-size-fits-all relational approach.

(tags: joegregorio programming hypertable couchdb simpledb databases distributed relational scalability cloudcomputing bigtable gae)
Finding the lost city – The Boston Globe

El Dorado might be real?

(tags: eldorado bostonglobe amazon culture history geography exploration southamerica percyfawcett)
Hardware Fatality List | corey gilmore's blog

remind me never to let Corey even look at any of my hardware

(tags: coreygilmore cursed hardware)
Will the real WebKit please standup on Dion Almaer's Blog

i hear this a lot. while it may be true that forking is simply an inevitability in a world of DVCSs, it's an issue for the web developers out there, who obviously can't afford to ignore WebKit, but probably can't afford to test all the variants.

(tags: browsers webkit dionalmaer compatibility forking testing)