Leanpub – Neat ebook publishing service that uses a shared Dropbox, and Markdown (or HTML) files. Geeky, but amazingly self-service and easy.
Tag Archives: links
Writing Hadoop jobs as shell commands
parbash – Parallel BASH – Google Project Hosting – Looks like an interesting project — it allows writing/running Hadoop jobs as shell commands (grep, awk, perl, etc.) for text processing.
Python library for auto-tagging text
Here’s an interesting text-classifying library that extracts/computes “tags” for a given piece of text:
apresta/tagger – GitHub – Python library that generates 'tags' for a piece of text (i.e., useful for auto-tagging, or classifying an article.)
Cleaning an Idle Air Control Value (IACV) on a Subaru
My ’02 WRX started-up with a wandering (and lean) idle this morning. Thankfully, all it took was a $6 gasket and 20-minutes of pulling, cleaning, and re-installing the IACV. So far, it seems to have worked. See the following for detailed instructions:
Mr. Job: A python framework for writing Hadoop jobs
mrjob at master – GitHub – A python framework for writing/deploying jobs to a Hadoop cluster or Amazon Elastic MapReduce service.
Using progressive enhancement for mobile/web layout
"Rethinking the Mobile Web" by Yiibu – Contains some nice examples on using progressive enhancement to skin a website for a wide variety of devices (desktop, mobile, etc.)
You can’t (afford to) innovate like Apple
You Can’t Innovate Like Apple — by Pragmatic Marketing – A great piece on Apple design and experience, and what it takes to achieve it.
Using the Serial Port from JavaScript
seriality – Project Hosting on Google Code – A browser plugin enabling Serial port access from JavaScript. Connect your web apps to microcontrollers!
Amazingly simple, but this is a really exciting project with massive hackability potential! Here’s a quick example from the project page:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function setup()
{
var serial = (document.getElementById("seriality")).Seriality();
serial.begin(serial.ports[0], 9600);
serial.write("Hello World");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="setup();">
<object type="application/Seriality" id="seriality" width="0" height="0"></object>
</body>
</html>
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A New Type of Phishing Attack « Aza on Design – A sneaky phishing attack by manipulating favicon and page contents of a background tab. Includes a video and live demonstration.
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Who You Gonna Call? « Improv Everywhere – Ghostbusters improv at The New York Public Library
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hummingbird @ GitHub – Real-time web tracking project built on node.js, canvas, websockets…
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High concurrency counters without sharding – Nick’s Blog – Using memcache + tasks to increment and store counters rather than sharding (on App Engine.)
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Plugging the CSS History Leak at Mozilla Security Blog – Description of how Mozilla is addressing the CSS History leak problem, and various attack vectors.
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http://jarc.sourceforge.net/ – An Arc implementation in Java — allows interacting with Java classes (much like Clojure.)
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Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language – A coding style guide for JavaScript by Douglas Crockford. I agree with almost all of it…
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PEG.js – Parser Generator for JavaScript – "a parser generator for JavaScript" with browser and command-line support.
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re2 – "an efficient, principled regular expression library" – Should make for interesting source code reading.
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Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows – File away under "Obscure details to remember about bizarre JavaScript behavior in IE" — this case, " any recursion that happens through the window object is limited to a stack depth of 12"
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Cocoa Text System – Nice examples on how to modify OS X keybindings. I didn't realize you could define macros like this.
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Teambox | Project collaboration – Looks like a nice way to collaborate on projects. I like the use of short status messages (ala Twitter) and simple task lists.