Tag Archives: feeds

The rise of the journalist-programmer

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Karl

I’d call it some long-awaited recognition for many. Gawker: Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer. Hmm… have I qualified as a Programmer-Journalist in the past?

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Use FeedBurner to update Twitter from your blog

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Karl

Instructions provided by Matt Cutts in “Doing the “Digital Cleanse”: no Twitter for a week”. It’s a time saver.

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Two links on simple map visualizations with Python

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Karl

Simon Wilson: Exploring Python: Stack Overflow Dev Days Amsterdam November 2009 FlowingData: How to Make a US Country Thematic Map Using Free Tools

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Pros and cons for NoSQL

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Karl

Pros: a tornado of razorblades: SQL Databases Don’t Scale (Hacker News thread) Cons: Code Monkeyism: The dark side of NoSQL (Hacker News thread) Related: Archives of the Caml mailing list: Message from Brian Hurt Chris Williams , Co-Curator of NoSQL … Continue reading →

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The UNIX Way

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Karl

Kas Thomas of CMS Watch riffs on “The UNIX Way”, principals summarized by Mike Gancarz: 1. Small is beautiful. 2. Make each program do one thing well. 3. Build a prototype as soon as possible. 4. Choose portability over efficiency. … Continue reading →

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cURLing with Alfresco’s and Google’s Data APIs

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Karl

Jeff Potts: Curl up with a good web script (interacting with Alfresco’s Document Manager via CMIS and Atom) Google Data APIs: Using cURL to interact with Google Data services Bonus: commandlinefu.com: Update twitter via curl as Function

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Hive, Hadoop at Facebook, Yahoo

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Karl

Engineering@Facebook: Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop Yahoo! Developer Blog: Announcing the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop

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Reading up on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processing

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Karl

Wikipedia: Extract, transform, load Wikipedia: Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio: Tutorials Manageability: Open Source ETL (Extraction, Transform, Load) Written in Java richard.gluga.com: Data Migration Done Right kJube: Vendors and tools – ETL AlfrescoForge: ETL Connector Talend job for Job … Continue reading →

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Smart aggregation and API use in NPRbackstory

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Karl

NPRbackstory is an automated Twitter feed that attempts to add context to the news stories trending popular today according to Google’s Hot Trends. It leverages NPR’s archives (very smart, as Joshua Benton notes archives are underused assets), and Yahoo! Pipes … Continue reading →

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Smart, useful desktop mashup of transit data for Philadelphians

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Karl

Check out fellow Comcaster Mat Schaffer’s Mac Dashcode widget, “iSepta Train View”. As the name suggests, it mashes up data from the fantastic iSepta.org with Septa’s own Train View for a concise look into Septa’s regional rail status.

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