Bookmarks for 8 February through 4 March

4 March 2010 - Filed under Bookmarks

• Home – genetify – GitHub – A/B (vector) testing framework that uses genetic programming to optimize the test outcome.
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography – "Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field…. In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS."
• USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project ARkStorm: West Coast Storm Scenario – "The USGS Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) is preparing a new emergency-preparedness scenario, called ARkStorm, to address massive U.S. West Coast storms analogous to those that devastated California in 1861–62. Storms of this magnitude are projected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change." The 1861-1862 storm lasted 45 days and flooded the Sacramento Valley.
• Why Menlo Park spoke out against Saltworks project – San Jose Mercury News – Menlo Park's City Council passed a resolution opposing the 50/50 plan for Saltworks. Interesting fact: Saltworks would be 17 times larger than the last Bay fill project–Oakland International Airport, 1968.
• End-to-end… and everything in between: Do a "pkg image-update" with multiple zones!!! – Dan shows how to update multiple zones using pkg(5)'s integrated handling for arbitrarily located images and beadm(1M). Dan's multiple zone configuration is an example of how to use zones to secure an Internet-facing system.

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Bookmarks for 8 January through 25 January

25 January 2010 - Filed under Bookmarks

• Sphinx Python Document Generator – "Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation…"
• stanlemon.net : jgrowl – In-browser notification messages.
• TipTip jQuery Plugin | Drewwilson.com – A clever tooltip plugin for jQuery.
• Proof that just about anything fits in a cup. – Amusing art
• MyWikkaSite: OpenSolaris (List of package repositories) – Bill Hathaway's tracking pkg(5) package repositories. If you know of more, comment on his wiki.

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Bookmarks for 29 November through 2 January

5 January 2010 - Filed under Bookmarks

• Create PDF thumbnails using ImageMagick on Linux | Prashanth Ellina – Useful tip if you want to render one or more PDF pages to another format.
• Python – Tao of Mac – A commented Python link collection, with a few I've not seen before.
• How to Go Winter Camping and Backpacking : Expert Advice from REI – Someday, when the kids won't freeze.
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Didn't know that the TMBG version was a cover. A gold record for The Four Lads in 1953.
• dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library – Cool interactive JavaScript charting: zoom, error bands, relatively easy to use.
• Mark Joshi – Associate professor, actuarial studies, Melbourne U.

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Bookmarks for 26 October through 10 November

10 November 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

• Minimal Solaris: Installing OpenSolaris on a Sparc using LiveCD – Alexander's extended his earlier SPARC LiveCD to have a basic installer.
• Minimal Solaris: OpenSolaris Sparc snv125 LiveCD – Alexander, creator of MiLaX, has made a SPARC LiveCD, based on Build 125.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• SXCE OpenSolaris Migration Sparc – Steven Acres's notes on a SPARC migration from SXCE to OpenSolaris.
• miguelventura / after_the_deadline / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org – A Python wrapper for After the Deadline's spelling/grammar/style checking API.

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Bookmarks for 21 October through 24 October

24 October 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

• What to Read on North Korean Politics | Foreign Affairs – Reading list from Nicholas Eberstadt (AEI and National Bureau of Asian Research).
• Start – Bottle Web Framework – "Bottle is a fast and simple WSGI-framework for the Python Programming Language. It offers request dispatching with url parameter support (routes), templates, key/value databases, a build-in HTTP server and adapters for many third party WSGI/HTTP-server and template engines. All in a single file and with no dependencies other than the Python standard library."
• The Blog of Ben Rockwood: Solaris Extended Accounting in the Real World – Ben expands his coverage of Solaris extended accounting. In particular, try out "exacttly", his new process accounting reporting tool.
• Code Style: Font stack builder – A useful web application to build CSS font stacks. As you select fonts, coverage for Windows, MacOS, and Linux is calculated based on recent surveys.
• Upgrading from Nevada to OpenSolaris the easy way – Alan's worked out a simple way to add OpenSolaris to a system running recent Nevada bits. Useful as we approach the upcoming transition.

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Bookmarks for 11 October through 20 October

20 October 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

• Bug 6186 – OpenSolaris package renaming – Rich has been working through every package in OpenSolaris, proposing friendlier and guessable names.
• OGB 2009/009 ReleaseNotes – Genunix – OGB 2009/009 are the release notes for the proposed OpenSolaris constitution. The OGB's using co-ment.net for interactive comment handling on the draft as well.
• manifold – Project Hosting on Google Code – Manifold, an smf(5) manifest creation assistant, has a project page on Google Gode.
• chrismiles: Quickly create SMF service manifests for Solaris using Manifold – Chris has written a Python-based tool that guides one through the creation of a new service manifest for smf(5): answer the questions, get a manifest.
• building an ON IPS repository – Liane Praza’s Weblog – Liane comments on her work with Mark to convert the OS/Net consolidation ("ON") to build image packages natively, rather than through our importer magic.

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Bookmarks for 2 October through 5 October

5 October 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

• jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library – "jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development."
• An Introduction to Processing.js | Design Intellection – First article in a planned six part tutorial in Processing.js.
• Processing 1.0 – "Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions." The original language.
• Processing.js – "Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets."
• An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) – Useful article, with outbound links, about the underlying behaviors behind "bandwidth". Example of throttling, packet loss using ipfw on BSD/MacOS X.

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Bookmarks for 25 September

26 September 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

• 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."

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A few hours at Maker Faire 2009

30 May 2009 - Filed under Family + Observations + Peninsula

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:
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:
Cool.

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

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Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

14 May 2009 - Filed under Bookmarks

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

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."

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