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"These are projects that creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source hardware like Linux, but hardware centric."
.. lets build a mesh ..
"Google Search Appliance virtual edition is a developer platform designed for the enterprise development community to build and test applications that use the Google Search Appliance. With this free software, you can try out the search capabilities of the Google Search Appliance. You can also use this software to write and test programs that integrate with the search appliance."
.. still not sure if I like the Google Search Appliance .. but at least there is now a way to try it out for free ..
List of products/projects/ideas that caught my eye (again) while attending the excellent QCon conference last week in San Francisco:
JetBrains MPS, DSLs, Microsoft Oslo + article, oAW, GridGain, YQL, Yahoo Pipes, LINQ, Yaws, mochiweb, JSON, CouchDB, Hypertable, Neo4J, OAuth, AtomPub, Httpbis, MagLev, MogileFS, hadoop, Gearman, Thrift, Bloom filter, Lucene
"Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.
CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments."
.. bye-bye RelationalDBs ..
.. by the way, an interesting approach: "ElasticDB - (Elasticdrive + CouchDB)" ..