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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 – [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Swish-e :: Home Page

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

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

Recent results from Yahoo!'s sorting benchmark run.

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

A useful set of instructions on Hadoop setup and issues.

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jspdf – Google Code

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

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kindle Formatting

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

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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."

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Continuous Deployment « Timothy Fitz

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

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

IMVU deploys to production after passing its continuous integration tests.

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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."

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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.

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