Links 2008-04-19: Mahout, Maakit, blog APIs, AWS, python

• Apache Mahout's goal is to build scalable, Apache licensed machine learning libraries using Hadoop
• maatkit - Essential command-line utilities for MySQL
• atomautodiscovery.py Spec-compliant Atom autodiscovery module with test suite
• The Ultimate Weblog API Primer but not Alice's Editing Adventures
• Calais Gets a Wordpress Plugin
• Two-Faced Django Part 1: Building a project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web
• Threads, processes and the Global Interpreter Lock Multi-threaded python daemons (without twisted!)
• ElasticDrive allows you to mount a remote storage resource such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (s3), Nirvanix and AOL's Xdrive as a local storage device.
• How To Set Up Dynamic DNS for your Amazon EC2 Instance
• Mysql 2007 presentation, Amazon S3 engine MySQL, Handouts
• California Business Search This search can be used to determine if an entity is currently registered with the California Secretary of State.

Technorati Tags: atom, aws, django, ec2, facebook, hadoop, python

Links 2008-04-14: GTD, Rpy, Django, text analytics

• Tracks rails app for GTD
• Getting things done (simply) in Leopard The best Mac GTD app might be right under your nose (Dennis Best)
• RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions). All errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions. Any module installed for the R system can be used from within Python. See also An introduction to how we can interact with R from Python
• Django People lists 2025 Django developers from around the world, in 85 different countries. The aim of the site is to help Django developers find like-minded souls near them, and hopefully kick-start some local meet-ups and user groups.
• Django Pluggables Find reusable applications for your Django project
• Open Computer: The Smart Alternative to an Apple Why spend $1999 to get the least expensive Apple computer with a decent video card when you can pay less than a fourth of that for an equivalent sleek and small form-factor desktop with the same hardware.
• Orange is a component-based data mining software. It includes a range of preprocessing, modelling and data exploration techniques. It is based on C++ components, that are accessed either directly (not very common), through Python scripts
• Flaptor Autotagger Demo TagAssist
• Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services The Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content.

Technorati Tags: django, python, ruby

Links 2008-04-13: EC2, HBase, OASIS, Hypertable

• Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2
• X-Trace is a network diagnostic tool designed to provide users and network operators with better visibility into increasingly complex Internet applications. It does this by annotating network requests with metadata that can be used to reconstruct requests, even those that make use of multiple network layers. X-Trace “enabled” Internet sites make use of these identifiers to record the path that requests take through their network.
• OASIS is a shared locality-aware server selection infrastructure. OASIS is organized as an infrastructure overlay, providing high availability and scalability.
• HBase @ Rapleaf
• Kosmix File System on SourceForge
• Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Our goal is nothing less than that Hypertable become one of the world’s most massively parallel high performance database platforms.
• BIND 9 Manual
• CodeIgniter MVC framework PHP
• Pligg CMS digg-like site framework (I think)
• Yahoo! planning to index microformats
• python-libmemcached

Technorati Tags: aws, dns, hypertable, php, ec2, python, yahoo

Links 2008-04-12: Jaql, Hadoop, ThruDB, Python & AWS, DNS

• PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML. PottyMouth is designed to handle input text from non-technical, potentially careless or malicious users. It produces HTML that is completely safe, programmatically and visually, to include on any web page. PottyMouth is ideal for displaying blog comments, text email bodies in a web mail application or mailing list web archive, or any text fields on any site with user input text, such as a social networking, dating, or community site. In short, any input which is displayed in HTML and is input as text by a non-technical and/or untrusted user.
• Jaql - a query language for JSON Demonstrates an example of JSON data, describes the key features of Jaql and shows how it can be used to process JSON data in parallel using Hadoop's map/reduce framework.
• Pig is a dataflow programming environment for processing very large files. Pig compiles these dataflow programs into (sequences of) map-reduce jobs and executes them using Hadoop. It is also possible to execute Pig Latin programs in a "local" mode (without Hadoop cluster), in which case all processing takes place in a single local JVM.
• Hadoop On Demand is a system for provisioning and managing independent Hadoop MapReduce and HDFS instances on a shared cluster of nodes. HOD is a tool that makes it easy for administrators and users to quickly setup and use Hadoop.
• Hadoop Streamng allows you to create and run map/reduce jobs with any executable or script as the mapper and/or the reducer. For example:

  $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop  jar $HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-streaming.jar \
      -input myInputDirs \
      -output myOutputDir \
      -mapper /bin/cat \
      -reducer /bin/wc
  

• Red Black Trees Tutorial
• Jing Project - The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
• Historical Graphs for Mortgage Rates
• The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e., ISO/IEC 15444-1).
• DNS for Rocket Scientists Online guide about DNS and (mostly) BIND 9.x on Linux (Fedora Core), BSD's (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD)
• ThruDB Document Oriented Database Services
• PyAWS

Technorati Tags: aws, hadoop, JSON, python

Links 2008-04-11: mod_rails, Ruby's not ready, MySQL + Python, Django caching

• Passenger - mod_rails
• mod_wsgi
• Dapper Get any content from the web -- Screen scraper service
• RatingBurner Blog popularity according FeedBurner subscriptions
• Ruby’s not ready
• Access log parser in python, ported from Peter Hickman's Apache::LogRegex Perl module
• ChironFS A filesystem must go on, even if it is hurt
• A generic programming thread pool (python)
• MintCache django thundering herd (er, "dog pile") protection
• How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
• A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3
• HyperDB
• MySQL 5.1 Events
• Writing MySQL Scripts with Python DB-API
• MySQL Connectivity WIth Python

Technorati Tags: aws, caching, django, mysql, apache, ruby

Links 2008-03-06: Firefox customization, Fire Eagle, Browser Screenshot Tools

• Customizing Mozilla
• CSS Reference:Mozilla Extensions
• svn:externals demo
• Google Contacts Data API
• TightVNC
• CentOS 5 RPMS
• Location Aware: Smart Rollout for Yahoo! Fire Eagle
• xautomation
• scrot

Technorati Tags: firefox, fireeagle, subversion

Links 2008-02-28: Stickk, DNS services, python libraries, response time monitoring

• stickk Goal setting and tracking
• EveryDNS
• DNS Made Easy
• pygame - python game development
• Python Imaging Library (PIL)
• httplib2
• Campfire
• How Should I Compensate an Advisory Board?
• PasTmon - The Passive Application Response Time Monitor
• CSS Sprite Generator

Technorati Tags: dns, python

Links 2008-02-19: CDNs, Python, AWS, iCal + Google Calendar

• CDNs A look at Content Delivery Networks, or “how to serve lots of content really fast” ( IndyNET, EdgeCast, Panther Express, Voxel dot Net)
• CDNs (Wikipedia)
• The scaling problem and open source
• BoardReader (Forum Search)
• The most important thing to understand about new products and startups Find the gradient, then follow it.
• boto - AWS for Python
• Net::Amazon::S3 - AWS for Perl (lots of dependencies)
• Amazon::S3 - AWS for Perl (more portable, less performant)
• amplee is a Python implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), as specified in RFC 5023
• TrainCheck
• BrowserShot's Shotfactory source
• First Steps with the MyBlogLog API see http://developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog
• gcaldaemon: Two-Way Synchronization of Google Calendar with iCal on Mac OS X

Technorati Tags: amazon, macosx, python

Links 2008-02-18: nginx, httplib2, Open Social

• When data center cabling becomes art
• Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter's backend, and is in production across Twitter's cluster.
• nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server
• Authoratory is a unique database of contact information, professional interests, social connections and funding of 630,570 leading scientists!
• httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library that supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries. (python)
• OpenSocial Persistence Data API Developer's Guide: Protocol

Technorati Tags: open social, python, ruby

Links 2008-02-17: AWS/SimpleDB, Social Graph, VR, number crunching

• Query 101: Building Amazon SimpleDB Queries
• Memoryshare - BBC
• Social Graph API - Google Code
• Velocity 2008 - Web Performance and Operations Conference (O'Reilly/June 23,24 - Burlingame)
• Virtual Reality Fireside chat at the 2007 AlwaysON Stanford Summit (YouTube Video)
• clustrmaps - widget that geo-locates web visitors
• Algorithm Education in Python
• The Tritium Group - online media recruiters
• Metrics-driven real estate marketing ("The Science of Real Estate" on the Today show, Redfin CEO interview video)
• Mule - Enterprise Service Bus

Technorati Tags: amazon, python

Links 2008-02-16: Hosted subversion

• Assembla
• CVSDude
• wush.net
• hosted-projects.com
• Collab.Net
• DevjaVu
• Versionshelf
• ProjectLocker
• Springloops

Technorati Tags: svn

Links 2008-02-07: Python best practices, AWS + Facebook, Lua, Plotr, SVN, hypertable, serf

• The Style Guide: PEP 8
• Python Idioms and Efficiency
• EasyInstall
• PySpec
• Building Facebook Applications on AWS
• Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
• Plotr (javascript chart painter)
• Subversion Reference Complete Reference
• hypertable (open source BigTable implementation)
• serf (High-performance asynchronous HTTP client library)

Technorati Tags: amazon, aws, facebook, hypertable, lua, plotr, python, serf, subversion, svn

Blog: Viacom Inks $500 Million Ad Deal With Microsoft; Makes a Hollywood Play For Videogames Too

Source: TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.flux.com/026FBFFFF000E2C3900080004D8BF/

In yet another move to strengthen the anti-Google coalition, Viacom announced a complicated deal with Microsoft that combined Web advertising, TV adve… more

Links 2007-12-14: Pound

Pound

A reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server

Links 2007-07-12: hadoop, drbd, hivedb

• Hadoop: How Map and Reduce operations are actually carried out
• IBM MapReduce Tools for Eclipse
• Running Hadoop on Amazon EC2
• Java grid computing
• HiveDB
• Highly-affordable High Availability
• Data Redundancy by DRBD

Technorati Tags: drbd, hadoop, hivedb, mapreduce, mysql

Links 2007-06-14: Python vs Ruby, Dependency version mgt in Maven

• Ruby: A Python Programmer's Perspective
• Maven best practices: Use dependency management for multi module projects.
• Hacking JRuby: BigDecimal and Ruby Internals

Technorati Tags: java, jruby, maven, python, ruby

Links 2007-05-26: Java Regexps, JRuby, python

• dk.brics.automaton - finite-state automata and regular expressions for Java
• Linux for Suits - Unusual Suspects Doc Searls
• HTML5 Sanitizer Sam Ruby (see XSS)
• pgAdmin
• PostgreSQL: Grant privileges on all schema objects in one go
• Python UnicodeEncodeError
• two cents on Static Typing
• expression of type X needs unchecked conversion (Java generics)
• Java Interfaces, JRuby Implementations
• Spring and JRuby
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
• Painless Software Schedules
• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

Technorati Tags: jruby, postgresql, java, python

Links 2007-05-17: PostgreSQL, PayPerPost, MacPorts, Maven, GlusterFS

• Detecting Online Commercial Intention
• GlusterFS
• Slony Log Shipping
• The Four Horsemen of Replication (PostgreSQL)
• PostgreSQL Warm Standby Using Ruby (PostgreSQL)
• Rails Migration with Slony?
• Slony vs PITR... (PostgreSQL)
• Practical PostgreSQL Online Book
• An introduction to Maven 2
• Converting MySQL database to Postgresql
• Tailrank Blocks PayPerPost Bloggers
• MacPorts Quick Start

Technorati Tags: maven, postgresql, ruby

Great Family Sushi Dining May 13, 2007 by ...

Great Family Sushi Dining

May 13, 2007 by Ian Kallen business

Samurai Sushi Boat

(510) 419-0601

3336 Grand Ave.

Oakland CA, 94610

US

★★★★★

Samurai Sushi Boat provided the venue for a fine Mother's Day dinner out. Sitting side by side at a counter facing the sushi chefs, the family was treated to a regatta of boats bearing the delectables they created. As the sushi dishes paraded by, we pulled them off the boats, sampling and exploring the repertoire.

While most of us were content with the ebi (shrimp), california rolls, ninja rolls, gyoza and so forth, the udon noodles with chicken suited our 8 year old just fine. The prizes under some of the dishes gets the youth vote, too!

Samurai Sushi Boat will likely never win any awards for their sushi. But on this evening, our objective was family dining; training wheel fare for the kids and some good food for the grups. And Samurai Sushi Boat met all of those objectives.

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Technorati Tags: family dining, japanese food, oakland, hreview, review, sushi

Links 2006-09-20: Google AJAX API, Flex, BlackDog, TagJag, Digg, FeedBurner, Jonah

• FeedBurner FeedFlares plugins for FeedBurner
• All We Got Was Web 1.0, When Tim Berners-Lee Actually Gave Us Web 2.0
• Using the GSvideoSearch Solution - powered by The Google AJAX Search API
• Google AJAX Search API
• Google Search API Sample
• Google Search API Worms security hole
• Ted On Flex
• Jonah
• Why The Wisdom of Crowds Fails on Digg
• tagjag
• BlackDog small linux device
• Domain Driven Design book

Technorati Tags: ajax, atom, flash, linux, rss, search, security

Links 2006-09-16: peopleware, listings

• A Tech Lead Manifesto peopleware leadership
• teachade social software for teachers
• edgeio listings search
• oodle more listings

Links 2006-09-14: technology staffing and management, query inversion (streams)

• Hiring Technical People
• Managing Product Development
• stanford stream data manager
• Amalgamated Insight
• Michael J. Franklin

Technorati Tags: technology management

Links 2006-09-03: log analysis, oscon

• LogAnalysis.org Loganalysis.org is a volunteer not-for-profit organization devoted to furthering the state of the art in computer systems log analysis through dissemination of information and sharing of resources.
• Log Analysis Mailing List Archive
• (Sam) Ruby on Rael (Dornfest) Rich Gibson's OSCON '05 flickr stream
• The ABC of SEO
• Official Seal Generator

Technorati Tags: loganalysis, oscon, generator

Links 2006-09-02: startups, flash, chumby, answerbus

• Nine Questions to Ask a Startup (Guy Kawasaki -- if only I'd had these before my last employment agreement)
• Macromedia Flash Lite adobe.com Mobile and Devices Developer Center
• OpenLaszlo - the premier open-source platform for rich internet applications
• Chumby
• AnswerBus
• Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building an Audience of Raving Fans
• 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

Technorati Tags: chumby, flash, open source

Links 2006-09-01: memcached

• Distributed Caching with Memcached (Linux Journal)
• Memcached (Wikipedia)

Technorati Tags: memcached

Links 2006-08-30: Photo to Sketch

• Thinker Software- A series of interesting software Photo to Sketch: It is a tool to make rich and colorful pictures, You can convert your photo to:
  • Pen sketch
  • Pencil sketch
  • Pastel sketch
  • Brush sketch

Technorati Tags: graphics, photography

Links 2006-08-29: Identity sites, python vs ruby, copyscape/copyright violation watching

• Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog
• LID Mylid.net is the first multi-protocol identity provider
• claimID claimID lets you track, verify, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about you online.
• Why I Like Python more than Ruby
• Copyscape Copyscape uses the Google Web APIs to find copies of your site, so it may miss text contained in Flash animations, images such as JPEG and GIF, movies such as QuickTime, or other formats that are not picked up by the service. Copyscape may also miss new text on the Web that has not yet been indexed by Google.
• light beer just got darker
• BossBitching.com

Technorati Tags: humor, python, ruby

Links 2006-08-27: Ruby, Jython, Stratellites

• Practices of an Agile Developer Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt (Pragmatic Programmer)
• Frank Wierzbicki's Weblog Jython, Python and other stuff
• Rubyforge
• Ruby On Rails
• Ruby
• JRuby
• Installing Rails on Tiger see also HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger
• Sanswire A Sanswire Stratellite™ is a specialized airship that is capable of carrying various payload with basic core mission of transmitting various types of wireless communications.
• Wireless robots may float above Earth (AP wire/cnn.com)
• Bird? Plane? UFO? No, Stratellite (wired news)

Technorati Tags: java, wireless, python, ruby

Links 2006-08-20: Java XPath parsing, ActiveMQ, page rank and IP lookups

• Parsing an XML Document with XPath O'Reilly onjava.com
• Getting the IP Address and Hostname of the Local Machine The Java Developers Almanac 1.4
• Code to find Page Rank WWW::Google::PageRank off of CPAN
• ActiveMQ JMX Metrics
• Imbalanced Message Producers/Consumers in ActiveMQ

Technorati Tags: java, perl, activemq, xml, xpath

Links 2006-08-19: IW3C2, WWW2007, memcached, JSON, Yahoo!, GData and Blogger

• IW3C2 The International World Wide Web Conference Committee
• WWW2007 The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the University of Calgary cordially invite you to participate in the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held at the world-famous Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park. May 8-12, 2007
• memcached protocol
• Yahoo! Developer Network
• JSON-lib JSON in Java
• Using the Blogger Data API The Blogger data API allows client applications to view and update Blogger content in the form of Google data API ("GData") feeds. Your client application can use GData to create new blog posts, edit or delete existing posts, and query for posts that match particular criteria.
• PAJAJ PHP Asynchronous Javascript and JSON
• Roma Framework Roma will render your POJOs as Ajaxed Web Pages, will store your business POJOs in the database, etc.

Technorati Tags: caching, java, JSON, memcached, gdata, web, yahoo

Links 2006-08-16: FUSE, ZFS, PostgreSQL

• FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. 
• ZFS on FUSE/Linux blog A 2006 OpenSolaris summer of code project
• ZFS filesystem for Linux?
• Sun Adds Postgres Database to OpenSolaris Package (eWeek) Note: Josh Berkus now works on PostgreSQL as a Sun employee
• The Best File System in the World? Part 2 (Sysadmin Magazine) ZFS administration scenarios
• Response to 10 reasons not to use ZFS
• Does Time Machine Hint At Sun's ZFS In Leopard?

Technorati Tags: linux, macosx, postgresql, solaris, zfs

Links 2006-08-17: Perl smoke tests, smolder, chimps

• smolder Web-Based Smoke Test Aggregator used by developers and testers to upload (automated or manually) and view smoke/regression tests using the Test Anything Protocol. Details and trends can be viewed in various formats (HTML, XML, YAML) and also via email.
• Test::Chimps The Collaborative Heterogeneous Infinite Monkey Perfectionification Service (CHIMPS) is a generalized testing framework designed to make integration testing easy.

Technorati Tags: perl, unit testing

Links 2006-08-10: Python, Perl, Open Search

• Packages for Python 2.4 Mac OS X Universal Binary
• Perl Inside Out Objects (Randall Schwartz)
• Open Search
• Python Regexp HOWTO

Technorati Tags: macosx, perl, python

Links 2006-08-05: Atom, JLint, Maven, CSS Parser

• Abdera
  The fundamental goal of the project is to provide a high-quality and functionally-complete implementation of the Atom Syndication Format (RFC4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol specifications published by the IETF Atompub working group.
• Jlint Maven Plguin
• Rss/Atom Feeds: Best Practices (John Panzer, System Architect AOL)
• CSS Parser The CSS Parser is implemented as a package of Java classes, that inputs Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 source text and outputs a Document Object Model Level 2 Style tree.
• Java Language binding for the Level 2 Document Object Model Style The definitions are divided into StyleSheets and CSS

Technorati Tags: atom, css, java, maven

BigTable: A Distributed Structured Storage System

In this lecture at the University of Washington, Google's Jeff Dean discusses the Bigtable content storage system used in google's backend.

• Google's BigTable

Technorati Tags: google

Links 2006-08-02: NDB, BDB replication

• NDB API
• Berkeley DB Replication

Technorati Tags: berkeleydb, mysql

Links 2006-08-01: Graffletopia

• Graffletopia

Links 2006-07-30: BIRT, JUnit 4.0, Asterisk

• Deploying BIRT (onjava) The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open source, Eclipse-based reporting framework that enables the creation and deployment of complex report designs.
• JUnit 4.0 in 10 minutes
• Asterisk® - the Open Source PBX!

Technorati Tags: java, linux

Links 2006-07-29: blog editors

• Desktop blog editor comparison (lifehacker)
• RubyGems (LinuxJournal)
• Interview: JRuby Development Team (LinuxJournal)

Links 2006-03-27: Java UI libraries (SiteMesh, taglibs), Google and Yahoo! maps, blog analytics

• Internationalization and Localization with PHP
• Paul Vachier
• Where's George Currency Tracking
• Computing Document Similarities in Perl
• NoEnd Frappr
• Bloginfluence
• The Boost Graph Library (BGL)
• Boost Graph Library - Python Bindings
• AAAI Spring 2006 Symposia :: Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs
• Inventor of Hotmail turns his attention to weblog -- Blogeverywhere
• How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes
• Java Parallel Processing Framework
• Database, Hibernate, and Spring Testing with TestNG
• SiteMesh: Easy in 4 steps
• Dependency Injection with SiteMesh
• Developing a project site with Maven 2.0
• JSP Taglibrary for GoogleMaps
• Google Maps API Basic Tutorial
• A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript
• phpBB
• Yahoo! Maps AJAX API - Getting Started Guide
• QuickToons
• Publishing 2.0 » Is Search Advertising Reaching a Plateau?
• Tutorials: SiteMesh, JSF, AJAX+Struts, Wicket, iBATIS

Technorati Tags: ajax, google, java, maps, php, blog analytics, sitemesh, yahoo

Links 2006-03-17: Nutch, PostgreSQL, Java profiling, Servlets, AJAX, playsh

• Servlets™ and JSP™ Technologies FAQ
• Nutch Searching
• Casual Carpool
• Rabble: MoBlog meets Social Networking
• Build your own profiling tool
• Five reasons why you should never use PostgreSQL -- ever
• del.icio.us API
• Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
• Coding Tool Is a Text Adventure (playsh on Wired News)
• Buzznet Feeds

Technorati Tags: ajax, java, lucene

Links 2006-03-15: Google, Perl and Ajax, wacky pot farm

• Peeking Into Google
• Using Ajax from Perl
• you put your weed in it
• ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java
• Directory of Feed Parsers

Technorati Tags: ajax, google, humor, perl, rss

Links 2006-03-14: MD5 Javascript, Google Video Feeds and Related Content Widgets

• Google's related news box
• JavaScript MD5 code

(via RSS Feeds For Google Video)

Google has announced an "alpha" release of RSS feeds for Google Video. You can basically turn any Google Video search results URL into an RSS feed by replacing the "videosearch?q=" portion with "videofeed?type=search&q=" and adding "&num=20&output=rss" at the end. For example:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=family+guy

Becomes:

http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search&q=family+guy&num=20&output=rss

Links 2006-03-10

• All O'Reilly Hacks
• Kartoo KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm
• GNU Plot
• GNU Plot Tutorial
• A simple guide to GNU Plot
• A smart frontend for gnuplot 4.0 and above
• Visualize your data with gnuplot

Tag Bling Your Blog and Photos

yo, eTech users, use the etech06 tag for your flickr photos and blog posts!

Technorati Tags: etech, etech06, etech2006

eTech Posts

• O'Reilly Radar Redux
• Battling Jet Lag
• Tim O’Reilly’s Radar
• ETECH report #1

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eTech Today

Today:

• Marc Hedlund
• Cal Henderson

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Etechoisms: blogjects

Attention stream, talk to me baby, Bruce Sterling sez that blogjects are the ambient emanations of attention. More shizzle from bruces: An Internet of Things Thing Links Fabjects Ubiquitous Findable Objects

Technorati Tags: etech, etech06, etech2006, brucesterling, spimes

Links 2006-02-25: Feed autodiscovery, bot detection, IDEs, Lucene, Y! feeds

• Atom autodiscovery test suite
• User Agent Bot Matcher in Java
• namespace.pm class name aliasing in Perl
• Lucene Web Services API
• Komodo - The Killer IDE Now with Ruby on Mac OS X support
• Yahoo! RSS
• Using Berkeley DB with PHP

Technorati Tags: atom, berkeleydb, java, lucene, macosx, perl, php, rss, ruby, sleepycat, yahoo

Links 2006-02-18: code search engines, open source CMS

• Koders
• krugle Raised $1.2M series A Feb. 2006
• Codase
• Alfresco

Technorati Tags: cms, open source, search, source code

Links 2006-02-17: Google's spam ecosystem

• Google News and AdSense's Role in Blog Spam

Technorati Tags: google, spam

Links 2006-02-15: Java best practices, mod_ruby

• Collected Java Practices
• mod_ruby

Technorati Tags: java, ruby

Links 2006-02-14: SFWIN

• SF Web Innovators
• Zend Studio

Technorati Tags: zend, san francisco, web

Links 2006-02-13: Java hashCodes, Gypsy Jazz

• Implementing hashCode
• Hot Club San Francisco (Djanologist)

Technorati Tags: java, django

Links 2006-02-09: Fist

• FIST: EMPHATIC MESSAGE GENERATOR
• Cache::FastMmap

Technorati Tags: caching, zealotry

Links 2006-02-08: BerkeleyDB

• Sleepycat Speeds Up Open-Source Database

Technorati Tags: berkeleydb

Links 2006-02-07: JRuby, Jython, Groovy, Scaling Slashdot

• JRuby
• Jython
• Groovy
• JSR 241
• Slashdot's History of Scaling MySQL

Technorati Tags: groovy, java, python, ruby

Links 2006-02-06: PhpUnit, Smarty, Plogs

• Testing PHP Code with PHPUnit
• PHPUnit Tutorial
• Introducing Smarty: A PHP Template Engine
• Amazon Plogs

Technorati Tags: php, amazon, unit testing

Links 2006-02-05: 9p rpc, solr, php, mvc, unit testing

• 9p RPC
• Solr lucene index replication
• ping spammer IPs
• PHP-controller MVC
• Simple XML Parsing with SAX and DOM
• swik Open Software Wiki and taglog
• mysql and memcache utilities
• TestNG
• JUnit Frustration JUnit Wishlist

Technorati Tags: java, lucene, mysql, php, unit testing

Links 2006-01-29: BerkeleyDB JE

• Building Applications with Berkeley DB Java Edition
• High-Performance Data Management in Java

Technorati Tags: java, berkeleydb, sleepycat

Links 2006-01-27: Threads

• The Life Cycle of a Thread

Technorati Tags: java, multithreading

Links 2006-01-26: Persistent Caches

• Tugelacache
• Berkeley DB Java Edition

Technorati Tags: caching, java

Links 2006-01-20: Sails, Other People into Web Application Scaling

• Sails: Simplifying Java Webapps
• Ask Bjørn Hansen's talks
• Theo Schlossnagle's Blog

Technorati Tags: scalability, sails

Links 2006-01-19: Lucene, MySQL, AJAX, GIS, Security

• Using Lucene to Search Java Source Code
• mytop - a top clone for MySQL
• Geospatial Semantic Web Blog
• Rex V: an AJAX Regular EXpression eValuator
• Cake with Smarty
• Acegi Security System for Spring
• MasterMySQL

Technorati Tags: acegi, ajax, gis, lucene, mysql, php, security

I'm a badger

I've been called worse things.

Technorati Tags: live8, technorati

Ajax Patterns

A good wiki collection of Ajax usage patterns.

Technorati Tags: ajax, wiki

Don't buy Home Depot's power washers

The Husky 1300 psi power washer that Home Depot sells are worthless. They don't reach 1300 psi and when they work at all they take a long time (at least 10 minutes) to reach their maximum pressure. Today, the piece of junk I bought last year just wouldn't pressurize at all. I ran it for twenty minutes before I finally gave up. You're better off getting a good nozzle for a garden hose, seriously. I'll try Sears next.

Skywalker Channels Cheney

Not exactly a tale of two Georges but I gotta talk about the Star Wars movie and a few Georges. Not to worry, I'm not gonna ladle out the spoilers. So, as mentioned in my previous post, I saw the film from Lucas this morning. It was great! Shmaltz! Light sabers! Dogfight combat! IOW, a classic. However, one of the memorable moments (at least for g'rups) is a line from the darkening Skywalker. In an obvious allusion to Bush, Anakin is deluding himself that he's bringing peace and tranquility to the galaxy, declaring "If you're not with me you're my enemy." The vast left wing conspiracy is correct, Bush is The Dark Side.

Technorati Tags: georgebush, starwars

Childhood Revisited

I vividly remember seeing the first Star Wars at the Coronet in San Francisco. I'm on my way to the Century 16 in Mountain View to see Revenge of the Sith. My little ones are totally jealous, they'll have to wait for a matinee showing that doesn't conflict school, sorry kiddos!

Technorati Tags: 94043, mountainview, movies, sanfrancisco, starwars

The NY Taxi moblog

Check out the street scenes of New York not for the photography per se but the succession of them. They capture the intensity, the mysteries and the smells of New York.

• Have Cab, Will Blog
• And Blog Some More

Sometimes New York just smells intensely mysterious but that's probably me being a left coaster.

Technorati Tags: cab, moblog, newyork, taxi

Open Source Radio and podcasts over the air

The San Francisco Chronicle reported today about kyouradio.com. Billed as "Open Source Radio", they have displaced Don Imus with podcasts. The choice of podcast topics (martini mixing, cats and ramblings about mortality) doesn't sound like a winner but I'd imagine integrating Technorati's link statistics and tags as a feedback mechanism to determine what podcasts are succeeding and which ones aren't. Adaptive radio programming where people vote for what to hear at drive time with their blog links!

Technorati Tags: opensource, podcasting, technorati

Skydiving

I've never gone skydiving but I've oft imagined looking down during the descent and saying, "Holy Sh*t!" Here's someone's picture of the distance between the ground and her converse.

Technorati Tags: converse, skydiving

Learning Machines

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks.

Technorati Tags: algorithms, java

Mentoring

Sometimes leading someone else to a solution is much more gratifying than finding the answer myself.
Reminds me of the old proverb, Give A Man A Fish:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Technorati Tags: mentor, mentoring

Tikkun Olam

First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world. Rabbi Israel Salanter

Technorati Tags: tikkun

Speeders in San Onofre State Park

Some people are too hurried about surfing. This guy takes pictures of them. San-O Speeders

Technorati Tags: busted, surfing

Folksonomy jokesonomy, it's all so 2004.