http://cosmos.directi.com A demo of SimplePie’s feed-merging capabilities. en-us directicosmoshttp://feedburner.google.com http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/02/21/org-numbers-from-the-latest-pir-newsletter/ Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry operator for the .ORG domain extension have published their bi-annual report last week. Here are some key insights from this report: .ORG domains have [...] http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/02/17/logicboxes-partners-with-bz-registry/ We are pleased to announce our partnership with the .BZ Registry, University Management Ltd. to provide business automation solutions to their in-house Registrar arm, BelizeNic. .BZ is the country code [...] http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/02/02/orderbox-csv-reports-2/ Here’s another update from the OrderBox side of things: We’ve completely revamped the way reports are handled in the system and have created an improved Reporting Module. We’ve gone back [...] http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/01/31/ru-domains-names-available-on-orderbox/ Registrars and partners will now be able to use sell .RU domains from OrderBox. Apart from second level .RU domains, third level domains under .COM.RU, .NET.RU and .ORG.RU are also [...] http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/01/24/logicboxes-partners-with-yovole/ We are happy to annnounce our partnership with Yovole Communications to help them achieve ICANN Accreditation and to increase their domain extension portfolio. This partnership allows Yovole to leverage on [...] http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/01/13/verisigns-registry-fee-hike-in-retrospect/ The Registry fee for .COM and .NET will increase 2 days from now. The fee for .COM domain names have increased from $7.34 to $7.85 and the fees for .NET [...] http://bhavin.directi.com/unix-domain-sockets-vs-tcp-sockets/ Here are two interesting links I found comparing the features and performance differences between using Unix Domain Sockets and TCP Loopback Sockets http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2005-February/001143.html Excerpt: IP sockets over localhost are basically looped back network on-the-wireIP. There is intentionally “no special knowledge” of the fact that the connection is to the same system, so no effort is [...] http://bhavin.directi.com/achieving-100-uptime-through-the-crabs-model/ As a web 2.0 company today five nine’s no longer cuts it wrt uptime. We do not have the luxury of providing 99.999% availability. Users expect 100% uptime. This post is a macro model of things that need to be taken care of to achieve 100% uptime. Inkeeping with the industry’s love for acronyms I [...] http://bhavin.directi.com/opening-a-bi-directional-socket-from-a-browser/ It is no surprise that 6 of the top 10 desktop applications by usage time are browsers (source: Wakoopa). We all have our gripes with a browser as an application container – sandboxing, cross browser compatibility issues,  no access to native APIs. The developments over the last few years however have been very promising – [...] http://bhavin.directi.com/to-trie-or-not-to-trie-a-comparison-of-efficient-data-structures/ Since my discussion thread on the efficiency of the in-memory data structure of ZeroMQ with Martin Sustrik, I have been reading up a bit by bit on efficient data structures, primarily from the perspective of memory utilization. Data structures that provide constant lookup time with minimal memory utilization can give a significant performance boost since [...]