Category Archives: Uncategorized
Links: 3-3-2008
- The Art of Possibility – Google Book Search
I’m a sucker for good acronyms: BTFI is a pretty cool one.
(categories: btfi reading books ted )
Links: 2-29-2008
Links: 2-26-2008
- InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper (by ratings)
Cool wallpapers.
(categories: wallpaper art desktop )
Links: 2-25-2008
- Hacker News | Ask: Text Message Providers? (Who do Buxfer,etc use?)
Good info on SMS / text messaging providers.
(categories: sms messaging mobile text ) - Rackspace: Using MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data
Great writeup on how Rackspace’s mail division uses MapReduce and Hadoop to big data. Note: Mailtrust generates several hundred gigabytes of email log data each day.
(categories: bigdata mail scalability architecture mapreduce hadoop performance )
Links: 2-16-2008
- ESPN.com – E-ticket: Who is this guy?
Interesting article about the Ernie Adams, a behind the scenes guy for the Patriots that crunches numbers instead of linebackers.
(categories: analysis management people reading nfl patriots )
Links: 2-7-2008
- Feed button test page
This feels really sketchy: basically using JavaScript it’s possible to find out if someone using your site has visited another site by constructing links to that site and checking the visited link color.
(categories: javascript hacks browserhistory )
Links: 1-31-2008
- Google Docs Bar – Companion for Firefox : Download
Now I’m gonna have to add file upload to Clearfox. Well done guys.
(categories: googledocs clearfox extension firefox google plugins )
Links: 1-28-2008
- inessential.com: Weblog: NetNewsWire and other desktop apps: your RSS router
Quote: "… news comes in to NetNewsWire, and then you route stuff to wherever it should go."
(categories: rssrouting aggregation aggregators feeds netnewswire ) - Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
A dive into the deep end of regular expressions.
(categories: regex algorithms regexp performance ) - testing html encoding description » testing » teestingtest
testing html encoding extended test—ttest
(categories: testing )
Links: 1-25-2008
- Apache Mahout – Overview
Mahout’s goal is to build scalable .. machine learning libraries. Initially, we are interested in building out the ten machine learning libraries detailed in http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang//papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf using Hadoop.
(categories: datamining apache hadoop java mapreduce opensource mahout machinelearning algorithms )