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I was googling Java related topics, when I stumbled on the "Comment On String Optimizations in Java" post. I admit it is not the best code I've ever seen, but it surely did not deserve the amount of spitting that I've read in the comments of the "comment". I'd really like to take a close look on all the code written by the people who contributed to those comments. I'm quite sure we could find some WTF "pearls" here and there.

I just found a quite interesting and freely available IP-to-Country database on the net. They've got a handbook with examples for MySQL+PHP on how to use it in a custom application. I think it's pretty interesting to see what countries do visitors of a site come from.

I've been browsing the web for some info about XHTML + anchor tags and found an article by Kevin Yank. In his author profile it says: "Kev believes that any good Webmaster should have seen at least one episode of MacGyver". Actually I think everybody should have watched at least one ep. of that TV series. It was (and still is) one of my favorites back in the early 90s.

[News.com/WSJ/HWSW] A Microsoft licencelhetővé tenné a versenytársai számára a Windows forráskódjának egy részét annak érdekében, hogy elkerülje az Európai Bizottság által kilátásba helyezett napi 2 millió eurós bírságot, amelyet abban az esetben vetnének ki, ha a Bizottság úgy találná, a Microsoft nem tett eleget a versenyügyi határozatban rá kirótt kötelezettségenek.

I found a nice presentation with the title "High speed PL/SQL" by Rodger Lepinsky. It talks about how one should write code to optimize for performance. It's a nice intro for beginners who already know the language and have one or two projects behind them, but have not yet dived into optimizations deeply. I'd say this doc is the "Absolute minimum a PL/SQL developer should know about optimization".

I just found this article about Unicode. It's a very good primer for folks who already heard about the topic, but never took the time to read an article and get started with the terms and definitions. I really liked its title too so I kept it for this blog entry.