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?
Tag Archives: feeds
Use FeedBurner to update Twitter from your blog
Instructions provided by Matt Cutts in “Doing the “Digital Cleanse”: no Twitter for a week”.
It’s a time saver.
Two links on simple map visualizations with Python
Pros and cons for NoSQL
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 East, NoSQL: A Modest Proposal
Carsonified: Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?
The UNIX Way
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.
5. Store data in flat text files.
6. Use software leverage to your advantage.
7. Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability.
8. Avoid captive user interfaces.
9. Make every program a filter
Read the whole piece.
cURLing with Alfresco’s and Google’s Data APIs
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
Hive, Hadoop at Facebook, Yahoo
Engineering@Facebook: Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop
Yahoo! Developer Blog: Announcing the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop
Reading up on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processing
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 Scheduler implement
High Scalability: How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data
NYTimes: Announcing the Map/Reduce Toolkit
core-user@hadoop.apache.org: Andreas Kostyrka: Re: hadoop in the ETL process
Re: hadoop in the ETL process
Smart aggregation and API use in NPRbackstory
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 to produce a RSS feed that is fed into the NPRbackstory account. It was developed by Keith Hopper of NPR’s Public Interactive group.
Read Joshua Benton’s piece at Nieman Journalism Lab
Read more about it at Keith Hopper’s blog.
Check out his other Twitter related project – Twitterstars – a tool to find local Twitter power tweeters.
Smart, useful desktop mashup of transit data for Philadelphians
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.