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  • Piwik # Open source web analytics – "Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more."
  • Scribe, by Facebook – "Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine."

A few hours at Maker Faire 2009

May 30th, 2009

We got to this year’s Maker Faire fairly early, and saw the many cool things people have built. (It was our first Maker Faire, and we underestimated the event’s popularity.)

Benjamin, who’s recently become an enthusiastic chess player, got to face off against the chess playing robot: B Hahn v. chessplayingrobot.com, Maker Faire 2009, San Mateo, CA, USA
Ben attempted a Scholar’s Mate, was stymied, and then had to go on defense; I suspect he’s been winning at school with that one.

Nathaniel and I were pressed against the barriers to see the lightning demonstration: Lightning demonstration at the Maker Faire 2009
Cool.

At an event where most exhibitors have made or built something physical, I must comment that a purely virtual or computational exhibit underwhelms.

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

May 14th, 2009

Andrew Moore's "set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms."

Swish-e :: Home Page

May 12th, 2009

"Simple Web Indexing System for Humans – Enhanced". Comparable to htdig.

Hadoop Sorts a Petabyte in 16.25 Hours and a Terabyte in 62 Seconds

May 11th, 2009

Recent results from Yahoo!'s sorting benchmark run.

Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Multi-Node Cluster) – Michael G. Noll

May 5th, 2009

A useful set of instructions on Hadoop setup and issues.

jspdf – Google Code

April 22nd, 2009

"jsPDF generates PDF documents using nothing but Javascript." Neat.

OpenSolaris Live USB Creator (Windows/.NET) ?(PID0.ORG DevZone)?

April 10th, 2009

Hiroshi's made a Windows .NET utility that lets you burn the OpenSolaris USB image to a stick without needing to run OpenSolaris.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” : Michal Pryc’s Weblog

March 31st, 2009

Michal gives another one-click example: he's made a p5i file with the base dependencies for building OpenSolaris's GNOME consolidation.

PackageManager getting Flash : John Rice’s Weblog

March 31st, 2009

John gives some screenshots from our one-click install/add publisher support. Most of the sun.com properties now support .p5i files and their application/vnd.pkg5.info MIME type now, so if you want to share packages–or give an initial configuration for some examples–your users are only a click away.

DIY: Home NAS Box with OpenSolaris and ZFS (English version) – Zhong’s weblog

March 23rd, 2009

Zhong builds an attractive home NAS box with 2008.11 and a dual-core Atom–the 330.

What’s in a name? That which we call an Authority… – Transitive

March 11th, 2009

Shawn explains why we prefer publisher to authority as a term for a producer and distributor of packages.

Kindle Formatting

March 1st, 2009

Information and blog on formatting books for the Amazon Kindle. The author runs a consulting service; site contains his tips, etc.

Whoosh

February 12th, 2009

Whoosh: a fast pure-Python search engine. "Whoosh is as fast or faster at indexing as other Python search libraries that wrap C or Java libraries (e.g. PyLucene?, Xappy), and not that much slower at searching."

Continuous Deployment « Timothy Fitz

February 10th, 2009

The original post proposing continuous deployment; comments interesting, too.

Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. « Timothy Fitz

February 10th, 2009

IMVU deploys to production after passing its continuous integration tests.

Project Voldemort

January 15th, 2009

"Voldemort is a distributed key-value storage system." Deeper down, we find: "Replication within the cluster handles the case of data loss on a single server, but bugs can still lead to global data corruption or data pollution. To handle this scenario the best option is ZFS filesystem snapshots."

Mounting Amazon S3 buckets as a file system on OpenSolaris : Angelo’s Soapbox

January 14th, 2009

Using FUSE and s3fs on 2008.11 to access Amazon S3 storage with filesystem operations.