links for 2008-04-30

• Regular expression tool – regex.larsolavtorvik.com
  (tags: regexp tools)
• Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition [LWN.net]
  This is the web site for the Third Edition of Linux Device Drivers, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. For the moment, only the finished PDF files are available; we do intend to make an HTML version and the DocBook source avail
  (tags: linux drivers books)
• How to estimate query completion time in MySQL | MySQL Performance Blog
  …The solution was to measure how fast the query was scanning rows in the table scan of the fact table. This is shown by the Handler_read_rnd_next status variable. Here’s an easy way to watch it (innotop is another handy way):
  1. mysqladmin extended -r
  (tags: mysql performance)
• MySQL User Guide – MySQL Forge Wiki
  (tags: mysql reference)
• fabiano pereira: designer: Vetorizando com Inkscape – Parte 1 de 2
  (tags: inkscape tips)
• fabiano pereira: designer: Vetorizando com Inkscape, parte 2 de 2 (final).
  (tags: inkscape tips)