Monthly Archives: July 2009

Useful Wget and cURL links

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Karl

Using cURL to interact with Google data services insanesecurity: Wget all the way cURL: Tutorial

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Some interesting social science, programming, infographics, overlaps

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Karl

The New York Observer: In the Battle Between Facebook and MySpace, A Digital ‘White Flight’ FlowingData: Rise of the Data Scientist Coding Horror: Code: It’s Trivial Zero Intelligence Agents: How to: Use Python and Social Network Analysis to Find New … Continue reading →

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“Computer Science is Really a Social Science” and danah boyd joins Microsoft Researc

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Karl

Two links from Jon Pincus of Microsoft Research: research.microsoft.com, January 2005: Jonathan D. Pincus,: Computer Science is Really a Social Science Jon Pincus, on his blog, sharing the recent news regarding danah boyd joining Microsoft Research’s New England Lab

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Quotes from Paul Lockhart’s terrific essay about the state of Mathematics education in America

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Karl

Paul Lockhart’s terrific essay about the state of mathematics education and what should be done: A Mathematician’s Lament (25 page must read PDF): G.H. Hardy’s excellent description: A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If … Continue reading →

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CMS Related Links for Wednesday, July 1st 2009

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Karl

Content Here: Code moves forward. Content moves backward. – about the migration of code and content in various environments. My Conference Presentation: “Just Put That In The Zip Code Field” – why content modeling is so important to a CMS … Continue reading →

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Terrific happenings in the governing and citizen related Web

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Karl

Tim O’Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov) Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios) EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released Tim Bray: “Hello World” for Open … Continue reading →

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IllustrativeProgramming

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Karl

Martin Fowler coins a useful term: “Illustrative Programming”: languages that “fuse the execution of the program together with its definition”. “Illustrative programming requires information from the actual running of the program.” He uses Excel as an example. I think MIT’s … Continue reading →

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