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erik — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:17:11 +0000

jsplumb – jQuery/MooTools/YUI3 library providing visual plumbing for elements on a web page – Google Project Hosting – A "pipes" style UI library for JavaScript using Canvas (and jQuery)

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erik — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:16:54 +0000

Leanpub – Neat ebook publishing service that uses a shared Dropbox, and Markdown (or HTML) files. Geeky, but amazingly self-service and easy.

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erik — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:33:48 +0000

jQuery Waypoints – jQuery plugin to trigger events based on page-scroll position (ex., when a user scrolls to content normally below the fold.)

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erik — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:31:57 +0000

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.

heatmap.js | HTML5 Canvas Heatmap Library – An open-source, JavaScript heatmap library.

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erik — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:59:18 +0000

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

erik — Tue, 17 May 2011 03:22:56 +0000

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:

Cleaning And Reattaching The IACV (Idle Air Control Valve) – NASIOC

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erik — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:00:12 +0000

yepnope.js | A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills! – A wrapper for LABjs to load CSS/JS based on feature, or browser detection.

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erik — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:02:09 +0000

mrjob at master – GitHub – A python framework for writing/deploying jobs to a Hadoop cluster or Amazon Elastic MapReduce service.

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erik — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:00:21 +0000

jsocol’s bleach at master – GitHub – "An easy, HTML5, whitelisting HTML sanitizer."

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erik — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:00:11 +0000

How to Measure Page Load Time With Google Analytics – Nice example (with code) for tracking page load times with Google Analytics (and custom variables.)

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erik — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:00:51 +0000

bbum’s » When is a Leak not a Leak? Using Heapshot Analysis to Find Undesirable Memory Growth – Nice, detailed example on memory leak detection for OS X / Cocoa developers.

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erik — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:25 +0000

"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.)