LinkList 13072008 :: Ganymede, Thrift vs Protocol Buffers and Port based Async Messaging

Things i like in Ganymede
http://sureshkrishna.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/things-i-like-in-ganymede/
Ganymede is the 3.4 release of the Eclipse project. Releasing 23 simultaneous projects itself it a really huge achievement.

Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers
http://stuartsierra.com/2008/07/10/thrift-vs-protocol-buffers
First Cisco Etch, then Thrift and now Protocol Buffers. Is it the revenge of RPC?

Introduction to Port-Based Asynchronous Messaging
http://dvanderboom.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/introduction-to-port-based-asynchronous-messaging/

Democratizing the Cloud (Video)
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Meijer-linq-cloud