Links May 24th

May 24th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

• La Clojure – JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Repository – vim is working out but it is nice to know this is there as well
• Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability – "I'm going to talk about online auctions," says Hal Varian, the session's first speaker. Varian is a lanky 62-year-old professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and School of Information, but these days he's best known as Google's chief economist. This morning's crowd hasn't come for predictions about the credit market; they want to hear about Google's secret sauce.
• 10 Lessons in Treemap Design: Juice Analytics –
• TwitterAlikeExample – redis – Google Code – "A case study: Design and implementation of a simple Twitter clone using only the Redis key-value store as database and PHP" tells a good story about building something on top of key value only
• Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta – YDN – "Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup."
• Finding Friends With MapReduce – Steve Krenzel – one of the better mapreduce explanations i've seen

The Colors Of Verner Panton from Colourlovers

May 18th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

“Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark’s most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors.” Check out the entire post; loaded with fantastic images.

Links May 18th

May 18th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

• Developers Home – MetaCarta Web Services –
• Text Mining Application Programming (Programming Series): Manu Konchady –
• pyTivo – "pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video to the TiVo. However, pyTivo is able to load MANY more file types than TiVo Desktop."
• Common Java Cookbook – many chapters totally unnecessary with clojure incidentally
• Mathematica Cookbook | O'Reilly Media – remind me to buy this in october.
• Paul Dix Explains Nothing: Breath fire over HTTP in Ruby with Typhoeus – "Typhoeus is a fearsome Ruby library that enables parallel HTTP requests while cleanly encapsulating handling logic. Specifically, it uses libcurl and libcurl-multi to run HTTP really fast. Further, it's designed with the focus of creating client libraries that work with web services. These could be external services like Twitter or systems like CouchDB and SimpleDB or custom web services that you write yourself." conflicted: big fan of libcurl, not such a big fan of ruby
• Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions – "Vimscript is a mechanism for reshaping and extending the Vim editor. Scripting allows you to create new tools, simplify common tasks, and even redesign and replace existing editor features. This article (the first in a series) introduces the fundamental components of the Vimscript programming language: values, variables, expressions, statements, functions, and commands. These features are demonstrated and explained through a series of simple examples."

More bacon and chocolate fun

May 15th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

Another in a long line of bacon + chocolate delights. Full recipe available.

Links May 7th

May 7th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

• The Ultimate Mac Setup for Web Designers (60 Apps) « AppStorm – from which i learn about "Alkaline – A great app for generating screenshots of how a website will display in various Windows browsers."
• Twitter API Wiki / Streaming API Documentation – "To accommodate a class of applications that require near-realtime access to Twitter data, we provide several tiers of streaming API methods. This document describes how a client can consume data from these methods."
• Alexandre Gomes | An introduction to game physics with Chipmunk – "Learn about Chipmunk Physics Engine and how to start developing games for the iPhone and other platforms"
• Big Data: On Cloud Computing and Hadoop on Vimeo – "Florian Leibert from DropIn Development spoke at the Hadoop LA meetup group. He shared his experiences of running Hadoop in the cloud (specifically AWS) and what common pitfalls were and how to avoid them. The pros and cons about owning vs. renting hardware and how to get that point across to upper management." long video, good stuff
• Running Hadoop On OS X 10.5 64-bit (Single-Node Cluster) – Hadoop Wiki –

Links May 4th

May 4th, 2009 • Comments Off Uncategorized

• Going Analog – it's a prezi, museum 2.0 presentation.
• Patrick Collison » blog » Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API – "A few days ago, Google released an API for Google Analytics (largely invisible but enormously successful). I spent a while over the weekend writing a bridge to Mathematica, and playing with the data, particularly that related to my iPhone app (Encyclopedia, which stores a copy of Wikipedia on your phone for offline browsing)."
• wet pixels: My first look at Clojure – "In the spirit of Dive Into Python, this is the place where I should offer up a snippet of finished code and then walk through it. Unfortunately, only having used Clojure a few days, I'm still in the first romance stage, rather than the stacks of working code stage. [...] Instead, I'm going to try my hand at two things that have frustrated me in the past with Lisp. Namely sockets and threads." Very nice walkthrough, good example of how using the repl makes life easier.
• Scitable | Learn Science at Nature – "A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge."
• ignore the code » Oberon – "a delightfully insane system"