Thinkin', Drinkin' and Linkin'

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

2008-04-19T08:51:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-04-14T23:59:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-04-13T23:24:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-04-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-04-11T22:14:00.000-07:00

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, "

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

2008-03-06T09:53:00.001-08:00

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

2008-02-28T14:45:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-19T13:57:00.001-08:00

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

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

2008-02-18T00:02:00.000-08:00

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

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

2008-02-17T11:06:00.000-08:00

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

Links 2008-02-16: Hosted subversion

2008-02-16T17:13:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-07T09:07:00.000-08:00

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

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

2007-12-19T10:06:00.001-08:00

Source: TechCrunchhttp://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

2007-12-14T09:30:00.001-08:00

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

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

2007-07-12T08:43:00.001-07:00

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

2007-06-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-26T10:20:00.000-07:00

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

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

2007-05-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

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: technology management

Links 2006-09-03: log analysis, oscon

2006-09-03T21:06:00.000-07:00

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: memcached

Links 2006-08-30: Photo to Sketch

2006-08-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-29T11:34:00.000-07:00

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

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

2006-08-27T12:22:00.000-07:00

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

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

2006-08-20T10:56:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

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!

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

2006-08-18T07:26:00.000-07:00

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

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

2006-08-17T07:09:00.000-07:00

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

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

2006-08-10T07:16:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-05T12:40:00.000-07:00

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

BigTable: A Distributed Structured Storage System

2006-08-02T19:30:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-02T06:46:00.000-07:00

NDB API Berkeley DB Replication Technorati Tags: berkeleydb, mysql

Links 2006-08-01: Graffletopia

2006-08-01T22:38:00.000-07:00

Graffletopia

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

2006-07-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

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

2006-07-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

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

2006-03-27T08:59:00.000-08:00

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

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

2006-03-17T10:26:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-15T08:48:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-14T08:44:00.000-08:00

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/

Links 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T09:47:00.000-08:00

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

Tag Bling Your Blog and Photos

2006-03-07T16:36:00.000-08:00

yo, eTech users, use the etech06 tag for your flickr photos and blog posts! Technorati Tags: etech, etech06, etech2006

eTech Posts

2006-03-07T00:02:00.000-08:00

O'Reilly Radar Redux Battling Jet Lag Tim O’Reilly’s Radar ETECH report #1 Technorati Tags: etech, etech06, etech2006

eTech Today

2006-03-06T23:25:00.000-08:00

Today: Marc Hedlund Cal Henderson Technorati Tags: etech, etech06, etech2006

Etechoisms: blogjects

2006-03-06T21:28:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-25T08:42:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-18T14:13:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-18T13:19:00.000-08:00

Google News and AdSense's Role in Blog Spam Technorati Tags: google, spam

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

2006-02-15T14:01:00.000-08:00

Collected Java Practices mod_ruby Technorati Tags: java, ruby

Links 2006-02-14: SFWIN

2006-02-14T16:52:00.000-08:00

SF Web Innovators Zend Studio Technorati Tags: zend, san francisco, web

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

2006-02-13T23:24:00.000-08:00

Implementing hashCode Hot Club San Francisco (Djanologist) Technorati Tags: java, django

Links 2006-02-09: Fist

2006-02-09T15:14:00.000-08:00

FIST: EMPHATIC MESSAGE GENERATOR Cache::FastMmap Technorati Tags: caching, zealotry

Links 2006-02-08: BerkeleyDB

2006-02-08T16:13:00.000-08:00

Sleepycat Speeds Up Open-Source Database Technorati Tags: berkeleydb

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

2006-02-07T09:41:00.000-08:00

JRuby Jython Groovy JSR 241 Slashdot's History of Scaling MySQL Technorati Tags: groovy, java, python, ruby

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

2006-02-06T23:52:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-05T23:36:00.000-08:00

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

2006-01-29T23:13:00.003-08:00

Building Applications with Berkeley DB Java Edition High-Performance Data Management in Java Technorati Tags: java, berkeleydb, sleepycat

Links 2006-01-27: Threads

2006-01-27T09:30:00.000-08:00

The Life Cycle of a Thread Technorati Tags: java, multithreading

Links 2006-01-26: Persistent Caches

2006-01-26T19:57:00.000-08:00

Tugelacache Berkeley DB Java Edition Technorati Tags: caching, java

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

2006-01-20T18:35:00.000-08:00

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

2006-01-19T00:24:00.000-08:00

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

2005-06-22T12:44:00.000-07:00

I've been called worse things.Technorati Tags: live8, technorati

Ajax Patterns

2005-06-10T21:46:00.000-07:00

A good wiki collection of Ajax usage patterns.Technorati Tags: ajax, wiki

Don't buy Home Depot's power washers

2005-05-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

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.

Skywalker Channels Cheney

2005-05-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

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

Childhood Revisited

2005-05-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

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, starwarsTechnorati Tags: cab, moblog, newyork, taxiTechnorati Tags: converse, skydiving

Learning Machines

2005-05-15T18:52:00.000-07:00

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. Technorati Tags: algorithms, java

Mentoring

2005-05-15T18:22:00.000-07:00

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

2005-05-15T09:33:00.000-07:00

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

2005-05-14T13:55:00.000-07:00

Some people are too hurried about surfing. This guy takes pictures of them. San-O Speeders Technorati Tags: busted, surfing

2005-03-12T16:40:00.000-08:00

Folksonomy jokesonomy, it's all so 2004.