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Links for 2010-03-11 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

User:Python - Facebook Developer Wiki
facebook api interfaecs in python

Links for 2010-03-06 [del.icio.us]

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Sorting Algorithm Animations
Nice animated illustrations of how different sorting algorithms work.
Graduate Talent Pool | A Graduate Scheme To Benefit Your Business
a good place to find interns.
Enternships entrepreneurial work placements
another place to find interns
wkornewald / django-nonrel / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org
django non relational (aka noSQL)

Links for 2010-03-05 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Quickly visualize and map a data set using Google Fusion Tables « News Apps Blog
quick howto geocoding using fusion tables
Wordpress and Django: best buddies — The Usware Blog - Django Web Development
"How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using Wordpress as example"
Tools of Pro Django developer – aka What powers dinette and almost every app we write. — The Usware Blog - Django Web Development
There are some tools and apps which we use with almost all apps we write, and in particular which, we used for dinette. Here they are broken into useful during development, and (also) useful post development.
Your digital fingerprint makes you easy to track
"Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new web app dubbed Panopticlick that reveals just how scarily easy it is to identify you out of millions of web users."
Panopticlick
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.

Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web."
Buddi GPS: Another way to track your kids from space
"How close an eye you keep on your children is a sensitive subject, and one that us largely a personal and cultural decision. Recently I was reminded of Brad Moon's Wired article that asked whether you would track your child by GPS if you could. This was triggered by reading up on a new UK product the Buddi, which is designed to do just that.
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Sleep Cycle: iPhone app that helps tired parents
"Sleep Cycle uses the iPhone's accelerometers to measure your movement while you are sleeping and calculate your sleep pattern. At the end of the night you have a graph with highs and lows representing light and deep sleep.

But that's not all. The app is designed to make use of this information to wake you up when you are in a light sleep moment. This, the developers claim, is the best way to wake up and feel refreshed. The app aims to trigger the alarm when you are in a light sleep moment, as near as it can to the wakeup time you set"
Television will soon watch you (for instructions)
"The days of rifling through sofa cushions for a television remote could be coming to an end, as 3D gesture-recognition technology finds its way into set-top boxes following a deal between Intel and Softkinetic-Optrima.

Like a hyperevolved descendant of The Clapper, the devices will let television viewers navigate menus and control volume by moving their arms in predefined patterns."
Big Trak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"BIG TRAK / bigtrak was a programmable electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979.
It was a six-wheeled tank with a front-mounted blue photon beam headlamp, and a keypad on top. The toy could remember up to 16 commands which it then executed in sequence (such as "go forward 5 lengths", "pause", "turn 30 degrees right", "fire phaser" and so on. There was a "repeat" instruction allowing simple loops, but the language was not Turing complete, lacking branching instructions; the Big Trak also lacked any sort of sensor input other than the wheel sensors."
Wi-Fi Stumblers Disappear from Apple App Store
"We wrote repeatedly about Apple’s odd and often unfair application approval process. Instead of fixing it, Apple is just getting weirder and weirder about what apps are allowed in the store. The latest example is the sudden disappearance of several Wi-Fi stumbler applications from the app store."
Load Impact - Free web site load test
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Slow websites means lost customers and revenues. Be proactive and find out the performance limits of your website before you learn the hard way. Load Impact is an online load testing service that lets you load test your website with just a few mouse click" check server load response

Links for 2010-03-03 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Quick-R: Home Page
great resource to get started with R and for frequent reference.
Series / TimeSeries — pandas v0.1.0 documentation
analysing time series data with Pandas (Financial python framework)

Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Drivers for the Epson AcuLaser M2000D Printers and All-in-Ones
drivers and manuals for new b&w printer
WalWare - Homepage
Running R inside eclipse

Links for 2010-02-23 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

scrape.py
"scrape.py is a Python module for scraping content from webpages. Using it, you can easily fetch pages, follow links, and submit forms. Cookies, redirections, and SSL are handled automatically. (For SSL, you either need a version of Python with the socket.ssl function, or the curl command-line utility.) scrape.py does not parse the page into a complete parse tree, so it can handle pages with sloppy syntax. You are free to locate content in the page according to nearby text, tags, or even comments." a potential replacement to beautiful soap?
pivot tables with sqlalchemy – machine-envy
"If your database doesn’t support pivots, here is a quick technique to get pivot columns with sqlalchemy" would be interesting to see performance vs my MySQL stored procedures
Pythonic Data Analysis with MaskedArray and Timeseries « tech guy in midtown
"In the financial world, most quants analyze time series data using languages such as Matlab, R, SAS, or Stata. I’ve used those tools, but I’m much happier working with a more general purpose language. Most recently, I’ve been writing most of my code in Python. Although people have implemented interfaces from Python to R and other numerical libraries, I prefer to avoid hopping in and out of Python. Fortunately, Python, NumPy, and SciPy provide an expressive, flexible, and efficient platform for analyzing data."
Examples — TimeSeries v0.91.2 Reference Guide

Links for 2010-02-22 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

DreamPie: The Python shell you've always dreamed about!
"DreamPie is a Python shell which is designed to be reliable and fun. DreamPie was designed from the ground up to bring you a great interactive Python experience" python shell for linux/windows useful for data analysis
Processing.js
"Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games" javascript port of processing with support for html5 canvas model
Synapse Wireless - Products
"A wireless mesh network based on the SNAP® (Synapse Network Application Protocol) software stack is instant-on, self-forming, and self-healing. Creating applications to run on the nodes forming the network is fast, efficient, updated over-the-air, and does not require embedded programming skills. In fact, users can administer and manage a SNAP based network without actually having to know anything about the details of wireless networks." a zigbee platform that incorporates a python interpreter on the node... nice!
Python Debugging Techniques | Ayman Hourieh's Blog
"This article covers several techniques for debugging Python programs. The applicability of these techniques ranges from simple scripts to complex applications. The topics that are covered include launching an interactive console from within your program, using the Python debugger, and implementing robust logging. " nice article on python debugging. it covers interactive shell, logging module, pdb
Django nonrel / NoSQL blog - All buttons pressed
running django on app engine, some insights and code.

Dropped food algorithm. Should you eat it?

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:09:31 +0000

I find really interesting this sort of visualisations of commonsense processes. Apart from the obvious tongue in cheek nature and tone of this diagram, there is something captivating about the dynamic nature of a diagram illustrating what would be in real life a split second decision. It illustrates how the process can be broken down [...]

The ideas project, Clay Shirky

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:26:38 +0000

Clay Shirky, talks about emotion and media, in particular how we have now more “emotional” responses to certain types of media. This according to Shirky is due to the rapid spread of messages via social networks i.e. millions of tweets in a short period of time about swine flu might create an emotional response form [...]

MIT sociable media, Personas

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:12:50 +0000

Personas is a project by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab currently on display at their Metropath(ologies) exhibition. In their words: It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Personas prompts you to [...]

Everything is music

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:33:23 +0000

RjDj is an iPhone application that introduces the notion of “scenes” (akin to samples of real life audio) and mixes them with input taken form microphone or any other of the phone’s sensors. These are then mixed all together to provide an “auditory experience”. The results are amazing. Chris one of the developers of the project [...]

Humanity-centered design

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:20:30 +0000

Aaron Sklar from IDEO talks about his panel at the upcoming Social Capital Markets (SOCAP09) conference in San Francisco. The workshop will is organised in partnership with GOOD and deals with the shift in design from human-cetered to humanity-centered approaches, where the design is not only focused on individuals but larger social groups. Humanity-centered design [...]