Igor Clark

Roll-your-own edge cache. Quite a, uh, concise write-up. Nice though.

Cunning ICMP stuff to make direct connections 'cross NATs.

So it turns out someone's written a tun emulator for Darwin and made a build for jailbroken iPhones. So, uh, hello routing all your iPhone traffic via a secure link to a remote node? Mmph.

Security dude's written a Port Forwarding Interceptor that lets you modify a raw TCP stream on the fly. I know it's wrong, but this guy makes me grin. Don't worry, my coat's just here.

Article about using a 'spaces'-based architectural approach to building a Twitter-like pub-sub/db hybrid system

Nice article from OpenX guy about automating deployments at scale. Via Nilesh.

I've been working with the dev team here at the Guardian on the API section of the Open Platform: a fully searchable XML, JSON and ATOM API for all Guardian content. It launched into private beta this morning, and quickly took the top two "trending topics" on Twitter. Tom Watson MP had some nice things to say about it, too.

These guys make custom builds of MySQL with various patches and additions including Sphinx search engine already applied, and distribute them via a yum/apt repository. Nice.

MIT-licensed project to implement sufficient Cocoa frameworks on top of an abstracted cross-platform Obj-C layer (including patched gcc toolchain) in order to make a viable Xcode -> Windows cross-compiler. Only Foundation is in place yet but apparently active work on CoreGraphics and AppKit is underway, along with some on CoreData. Seems it's got some way to go but looks good.