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motionless: taking the pain out of Google Static Maps 4 Aug 2010 | 11:46 pm
I have found myself needing to generate several map visualizations lately. Creating complex URLs for Google Static Maps can be time consuming and error prone. To make this process more civilized, I’ve...
Lessons Learned from the GitHub Recommender Contest 15 Aug 2009 | 03:42 pm
I spent a few evenings last week working on a contest that GitHub is running to create a recommender engine for their site. Think Netflix Prize but much smaller scale. Their description: The 2009 Git...
Excellent new book in the making: Computational Modeling and Complexity Science 24 Aug 2008 | 10:12 am
Recently, in a post about his terrific, Programming Collective Intelligence, Toby Segaran calls out the “excluded middle” of technical books. His goal with with PCI was to cover that middle ground - “...
Beneath the Bare Metal: Using dynamic profiling tools like DTrace and VProbes 3 Aug 2008 | 10:04 am
Just back from BarCampRDU. Lots of great sessions. I especially enjoyed Grant Ingersoll’s presentations on Mahout and Solr. I did a talk on use of dynamic tracing tools such as VProbes and DTrace. F...
Greg Kroah Hartman did a techtalk at Google recently. Some... 12 Jun 2008 | 04:18 am
Greg Kroah Hartman did a techtalk at Google recently. Some interesting stats related to the Linux 2.6.25 kernel development effort: 2399 contributers over last 1.5 years 1/2 of these have done one p...
Pythonic API for Tumblr's web API checked in 9 Jun 2008 | 07:55 am
When my Wordpress blog got hacked, I decided it was time to port over to Tumblr and let them deal with hosting, patching, etc… I put together a python script to import my exiting content via RSS. My o...
Google Charts Gets Invader'd 17 Dec 2007 | 10:38 am
Playing with Google Chart API and PyGoogleChart this afternoon after reading the announcement last week. A couple things to think about when using the API: You will want to use a wrapper - Take one ...
Luke 1.7 is out 4 Mar 2007 | 02:18 pm
After a year or so of shut-eye, Luke, the Lucene query tool, is back. New features listed below. Time to dust off some patches I’ve got for an earlier version and send them along for 1.8. Luke 1.7 fe...
The Definitive ANTLR Reference 25 Feb 2007 | 06:54 am
As reported elsewhere, the Pragmatic guys have shepherded another great book through their process: The Definitive ANTLR Reference. Though not intended as a how-to, I’m finding it very readable. Last...
VIM Plugin for JavascriptLint 2 Jan 2007 | 08:21 am
I’ve put together a vim compiler plugin to provide quick access to JavaScriptLint output. It will identify file, line and column of warnings and errors generated by jsl. Requirements: vim 7+ jsl in...
