Archive for April, 2009

Zenbound for the iPhone

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Zenbound is a game for the iPhone developed by Secret Exits Ltd.

Unlike a typical five minute “ringtone game,” Zenbound is by far the most polished game in the App Store. The game presents an object that must be wrapped by a rope. It’s meditative music and detailed graphics and intuitive touch screen controls wrap the […]

Apache Lucene

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Lucene is the tool used in advanced matching/filtering of services.

It is an open source project hosted by Apache and provides a Java based high-performance, full-featured text search engine library. To search large amounts of text quickly, one must first index the text and convert it into a format that can be searched rapidly, eliminating the […]

ZFS File System

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

ZFS is an emerging file system developed at Sun Microsystems.

Unlike traditional file systems like FAT32 or NTFS, which you would find on a Windows-based system, ZFS can “pool” multiple disks together so they appear as a single volume to the user. This is similar to a RAID configuration, but implemented in the file system rather […]