Bookmarks for 8 January through 25 January

• 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.

Bookmarks for 29 November through 2 January

• 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.

Bookmarks for 26 October through 10 November

• 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.

Bookmarks for 21 October through 24 October

• 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.

Bookmarks for 11 October through 20 October

• 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.

Bookmarks for 2 October through 5 October

• 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.

Bookmarks for 25 September

• 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

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.

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

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."

Swish-e :: Home Page

Swish-e :: Home Page

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

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

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

Recent results from Yahoo!'s sorting benchmark run.

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

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

A useful set of instructions on Hadoop setup and issues.

jspdf – Google Code

jspdf – Google Code

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

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

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

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

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

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

PackageManager getting Flash : John Rice’s Weblog

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

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

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

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

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

Kindle Formatting

Kindle Formatting

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

Whoosh

Whoosh

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

Continuous Deployment « Timothy Fitz

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

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

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

IMVU deploys to production after passing its continuous integration tests.

Project Voldemort

Project Voldemort

"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

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

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