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"The Arduino meets Processing project intends to make it as easy as possible for anyone to explore the world of physical computing."
.. interacting with hardware was never that cool looking .. check for example the 8 Switches project ..
"Podcast Episode Twelve: Android with Dianne Hackborn and Jason Parks."
.. they talk about some interesting concepts that are part of the UI architecture of Android; like "activity" or "intent" ..
"Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud."
"The data model used by Amazon SimpleDB makes it easy to input, manage and query your structured data. Developers organize their data-set into domains and can run queries across all of the data stored in a particular domain. Domains are collections of items that are described by attribute-value pairs."
.. SQL is getting old and boring .. it's time for a new database .. and unconfirmed rumor says that the service is written in Erlang .. interesting ..
"SymmetricDS is web-enabled, database independent, data synchronization/replication software. It uses web and database technologies to replicate tables between relational databases in near real time. The software was designed to scale for a large number of databases, work across low-bandwidth connections, and withstand periods of network outage."
.. pretty impressive tool, functionality .. and it's open source ..