Links for September, 2009
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Fernanda B. Viégas
29/Sep/09
Brailian ressearcher specialized in visualizations, specially grou p communications (chat, email, wikipedia). Much to read indeed. Former MIT media lab.
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Speaking UNIX: Stayin' alive with Screen
29/Sep/09
Good tutorial on GNU screen
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PCKeyboardHack
27/Sep/09
Sytem extension that allows to remap keyboard keys on the mac ( caps lock to control for example). Life saver.
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eBMJ -- Statistics at Square One
26/Sep/09
Simple and readable statistics intro, with focus on medical research.
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Using the BulkLoaderResource Provider with PBE - makeyourflashgame.com
26/Sep/09
An as3 game engine that's wrapping BulkLoader as a resource provider. I've been seen more and more people do it. Makes sense, really, we at Gringo did the same thing. Neat.
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route-me - Project Hosting on Google Code
25/Sep/09
A native Obj-C app for an OpenStreetMaps front end in the iPhone.
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A ~12 Step Program
25/Sep/09
Matasano Security LLC - Chargen - Indie Software Security: A ~12 Step Program. Simple list of security issues and rules for small companies and start ups.
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PortSwigger.net - Burp Suite Professional
25/Sep/09
Web software that tries to scan vulnerabilities across web apps. Payed version is 125 bps /year.
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Home | django CMS
24/Sep/09
Another django CMS. Looks well polished. Supports i18n, plugins, publish flow. The code is quite active on github.
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Fever° Red hot. Well read.
24/Sep/09
Pretty neat idea. A server based news reader that can rate you feeds, both according to your criterias but also across the intarwebs. The interface is beautiful and designed by Shaun Inman. I'd only wish he would make any sense and host the app. I do not wish to paid US$30 / year and setup a LAMP stack to host it!
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Trendsmap - Where people are talking about 'flooded'
22/Sep/09
Net twitter geo mashup, with a good interface + clustering of common themes.
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Open Atrium
18/Sep/09
An intranet based on Drupal. Seems well built, includes blog, calendar, dashboard, issue tracker and messaging.
tagged as: blog , cms , collaboration , drupal , groupware , intranet , management , OpenSource , projectmanagement , tools , wiki -
FeinCMS Django CMS screenshots
16/Sep/09
A Django based CMS. Looks very polished, supports internationalization, has a well customized admin.
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Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos - CPTEC/INPE
16/Sep/09
Source of mapping and climate data. Well built, easy to find things, and with a downloadable db. This is pretty rare for Brasil.
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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
16/Sep/09
Long article on the life, research and suicide of AI ressearchers Chris McKinstry and Mahender Singh. Well written, engaging.
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Learning Advanced JavaScript
15/Sep/09
John Resig's presentation through a hands on approach will explain scope and prototypes in js. Pretty neat, the steps are well planned.
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djangocon / Slides
12/Sep/09
The complete list of slides for djangocon 09 talks.
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1973 Chilean coup
11/Sep/09
Great Noam Chomski's quote on chillean coup.
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Scaling Django
10/Sep/09
Presentation by Mike Malon on Djangocon, goes into some detail on caching, load balancers (perball seems promising) and db replication. Has some short an useful code snippets for these.
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Room 101: Constructors Considered Harmful
10/Sep/09
Gilad Bracha on why constructors are such a mess. Quick wit spoiler: 'dependency injection should be removing dependencies, not injecting them".
tagged as: architecture , blog , constructor , factory , giladbracha , metaclass , oop , programming , scala , smalltalk -
overplot NYC
10/Sep/09
Mapping mashup with overplot NY and google maps, nice example of clustering
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briancarper.net :: Vim
09/Sep/09
Blog for Brian Carper, with a few good VIM and clojure posts.
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http://immike.net/files/restful_ponies.pdf
09/Sep/09
Mike Malone's presentation on RESTful django, covers Piston, RemoteObjects, Httplib2.
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stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing
09/Sep/09
Design studio who's done pretty interesting interactive media. Some well known visualizations and some pretty nifty mapping.
tagged as: agency , infographics , interaction , interface , mapping , sanfrancisco , stamen-design , studio , visualization -
Random Etc. - Notes to self. Work, play, and the rest.
09/Sep/09
Tom Carden (from Stamen Design)'s personal blog. Visualizations, mapping, and other fun stuff.
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Mapa da Educação Brasileira
08/Sep/09
Site do ministério da educação com dados (inclusive geoespaciais ) sobre educação no Brasil.
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as3-signals - Project Hosting on Google Code
08/Sep/09
Robert Penners alternative to AS3 events: A new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt . Seems reasonable.
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Raphael at Github
07/Sep/09
Javascript vector library. Uses SVG + VML so it does support IE. Weights ~58kb minified.
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Google Geo Developers Blog: Our Favorites: Time-Based Maps
05/Sep/09
Collection of time based maps.
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CUFP 2009 Keynote - Real World Haskell
04/Sep/09
Beatiful slide deck on the Haskell community. Makes me wish I'd seen that talk.
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Python's Super Considered Harmful
04/Sep/09
Post explaining a few gotchas with python's "super" and how it relates to Dylan's "next-method".
tagged as: dylan , example , gotchas , inheritance , metaclass , metaprogramming , oop , pitfalls , python , super -
Home | Scup
03/Sep/09
Brazilian startup doing buzz monitoring.
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Introducing About NSW – maps, census visualisations, cross search
02/Sep/09
Long detailed post explaning the making of About NSW(New South Wales), a site withe lots of local data, geogoodness and so on. Done with geo django.
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005 | Video Lectures
02/Sep/09
Series of Linear Algebra lectures on MIT.
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Online Backup from Backblaze
01/Sep/09
Online backup solution, seems pretty decent... should investigate...
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Beyond Code
01/Sep/09
An essay by Casey Reas discussing software in term of processes and systems rather than computers and programming languages
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linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
01/Sep/09
Rundown of popularity algotihms, including Bayesian average and Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter.

