Technofeel Things that keep me up late

Keep up’ links: 17/08/09

I do think technology watching is one of the most important thing in an engineer day to day life, and it's something I often ask during interviews. It's really disappointing to see the low percentage of young engineers that really cares about spending an hour a day reading articles to keep up to date. And because we all miss a lot of very interesting links that others may have seen, here's my contribution. I'll try to share this kind of post with you at least once a week

• PunyPNG: A fresh view on image optimization that will hopefully save you the hassle of using separate tools. "punypng is serious about image compression — it handles 8-bit PNGs, 24-bit PNGs, JPEGs, GIFs and animated GIFs. It also leverages dirty transparency techniques to further optimize transparent images beyond what typical compressors like pngcrush can handle." (from Ajaxian.com)
• Google Cafeine: What is really is: A still high level but interesting post on what may be the underlying technologies and motivations behind the brand new Google Cafeine. (Obviously GFS2, real time web etc...)
• SQL Pie Charts: Probably one of the most useless thing on the world, but this is so awesome that the guy deserves a day of glory. Doing ASCII Pie Charts out of pure SQL is just insane.
• TomTom for IPhone released ! We're finally getting a real suitable GPS software for the IPhone. Doesn't seems to be available everywhere yet, but should be soon (from Mashable)