Interesting stuff:
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/">Protocol Buffers</a> - library for generating classes for custom protocol handling</li>
  <li><a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/">Avro - like protocol buffers</a></li>
</ul>

.vimrc
<pre style="background: #ddd; border: 2px solid #d33; padding: 5px">
filetype indent on
let g:tex_flavor='latex'
let g:Tex_DefaultTargetFormat='pdf'
let g:Tex_MultipleCompileFormats='pdf'
syn on
set number
color murphy
hi LineNr guifg=white guibg=darkgreen
hi LineNr ctermfg=white ctermbg=darkgreen
set ruler
set showcmd
set expandtab
set ts=4
set autoindent
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
cmap w!! %!sudo tee > /dev/null %
set backup
set backupdir=~/.vim/backup
set directory=~/.vim/tmp
set noerrorbells
set ai
set nohlsearch
</pre>