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The cranky guide to trying R packages

John Mount — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:33:30

This is a tutorial on how to try out a new package in R. The summary is: expect errors, search out errors and don’t start with the built in examples or real data. Suppose you want to try out a novel statistical technique? A good fraction of the

Attempting to become an iPhone developer

guttermnky — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:33:08

So I had a request to possibly develop an iPhone app for my work. While normally this wouldn’t bother me, I keep coming up against roadblocks on the way to even investigating whether I can do this. Here’s why: To develop iPhone applications,

CfA Hosts Lab Day in Philly

Mark Headd — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:32:59

Code for America Philadelphia is hosting an event this Friday at Indy Hall in Philly. Lab Day is a chance to get together with the CfA Philly team, developers and civic hackers to share ideas and work on projects to make Philadelphia a better place. If

2 Free Tools to Find and Analyze SERP Dominators (for Competitor Research)

Ann Smarty — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:32:38

We have seen quite a few tools and tips on researching your competition. This quick post shares two free tools that have one thing in common: they let you generate the list of domains that get ranked high for several related search queries (we call them

Tinyweb Does Mono

Martin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:30:50

For a long time, the Microsoft technology stack was pretty much glued to Windows. If you wanted to use Microsoft technology, you’d pretty much need to use compilers, runtimes and servers that existed only for Windows. Back then, the closest thing

Strengthen Your Linux Web-Server Against Any Data And Security Breaches

Contributor — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:30:15

Strengthen Your Linux Web-Server Against Any Data And Security Breaches By Tarun Gupta Your Linux server is the back bone of any hosting service or solution you do offer in any manner to your clients. The complexity and credibility of the servers make it

Text-overflow CSS3 property explained - Pure CSS solution to get ellipsis

Deepu Balan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:35

The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary changes to the day-to-day life of web designers. There are so many crazy new features that CSS3 has in store for us. Things which were usually done with complex javascript code can now be easily done with

Four Years

Matt Legend Gemmell — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:27

Four years ago, I went indie. My business, Instinctive Code (@InstinctiveCode) has been going strong since then, and it’s been a great ride. I’ve worked for many interesting clients, from Fortune 100 companies (including one with a certain

ActiveResource that doesn't suck

Scott Schulthess — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:09

Pretty high on my wishlist is a improve feature set for ActiveResource clients to make it easier to say – switch from ActiveRecord to ActiveResource. The main things that I’d want are :associations, i.e. class Author &lt;

'Brave' Sketches

John Wayne — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:25:50

After Bruce Sterling‘s ending keynote for Interaction 11, I knew my capstone could not continue has it had before. Tonight I decided to go back and sketch more designs, while trying to be ‘braver’. I also attempted to take to heart two

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IIA Sign-ups First Day - Success! UAV Mission underway.

admin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:25:09

UNCLASSIFIED I’ve went through all of the numbers, and we’ve signed-up over 500 global members our first day. We’re happy to say that we have an evenly distributed membership base across the Globe. Although the game is global, we were

Cipher Disk Cutout

AlSweigart — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:24:54

Here’s a cipher disk that you can print and cutout to help you manually implement the Caesar Cipher. A program to implement this cipher (and break the cipher) is available in Chapter 14 of the free programming book “Invent Your Own Computer

Pimp out your Testimonials page with CSS3

Jamy Golden — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:24:23

All too often images are given borders, drop-shadows, rotated slightly, etc via photoshop or some image editing program. This is not only undesirable since CSS should be taking care of the layout, but it is very restricting. A single change in the image

New Ruby Gem: AWS-SES

drewblas — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:23:42

I’ve release a new gem: aws-ses. This gem provides a ruby wrapper to accessing Amazon SES, allowing for you to easily send e-mail, verify e-mail addresses, and monitor your SES activity. It’s still very new (give me a break, SES was announced

2010 wrap up and 2011 gear up

Derrick — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:23:09

I don’t typically write a post to review the past year or glance into the year ahead but I have decided to this year for a few reasons. First, by all accounts this was my most successful year as business owner and independent contractor. It is

Jack Dorsey: Chief Editorial Officer

derek — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:43

Thought-provoking. (Former Twitter & now Square CEO) Jack Dorsey on being a “Chief Editorial Officer”: Love “every detail perfect, limit the number of details. If you can do that well, no matter where you are in the org

Marriott Hotel Customer Experience Management

Duane "Chaos" Nickull — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:36

This week I have been staying at the Marriott hotel in Waltham, MA. Now when I get bad customer experience, I usually bitch.  For example, when City Center Florists tried to rip me off last year, I posted this blog entry.  When Hillcrest

TIL Moray Eels have a 2nd jaw inside their jaw!

Dusty Reagan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:25

The Moray Eel’s 2nd jaw is called a pharyngeal jaw. They use it to pull down prey captured in the front of their mouth, further down into their esophagus. It’s creepy, and it’s true! Check out this video of the … Continue reading

Should Opinion Be a Ranking Factor?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:23

Tim shows how he added the ability to determine if an article is fact or opinion and integrated into a clients internal search system. he then ponders a larger question should opinions be weighted above factual information. Should opinion be a ranking

Being a good Twitter Spammer

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:21

Tim deals with the issue of Twitters API Fail Whale, how he now is a much more considerate Twitter spammer and is no longer biting the hand that feeds him.

Is it porn?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:20

Tim answers one of those fundamental questions: is it porn? Before taking you into the seedy world of black lists, natural language processing and term frequency and leaving you with a simple formula using pornyness.

What is a camp?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:18

Tim looks at what is an "unconference" after attending WordCamp UK, not his usual style of post, but he really wanted to talk about it from a "BarCampers" perspective

What your credit card says about you

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:16

Tim takes a look at the plastic in your wallet and sees what data he can get from your Credit Card numbers. From if your worth fleecing to fraud prevention to where you opened your bank account and what it says about you.

Paypal most handy API

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:14

A very quick post to help save people from IPN hell, at least some of the time, using one of PayPals least known AdaptivePayments APIs

What browser am I using?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:14

Tim demonstrates how simply asking the right question to Google can reveal a lot Googlebot thanks to Google new Previews feature.

Should online Behavioural Profiling respect privacy?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:12

Tim takes a look at how to cope with privacy in online marketing campaigns, and the sad reality at the moment their is little you can do. But that doesn't stop him looking forward to a more positive future.

Do you Segment your mailing lists with style?

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:12

Tim looks at some more unusual segmentation on mailing list, and as its subject that often get's on his nerves takes a few swipes at well known retailers for getting it wrong... wait thats 1 well known retailer beginning with A.

Open letter to PayPal regarding Hosted Pro

Tim Nash — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:09

Tim writes an open letter, in part to vent frustration on PayPal hosted Pro and in particular it's woeful API, at least he didn't get started on sandbox :)

An inside look at the VMware Cloud team

Mike DiPetrillo — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:21:19

A little over a year ago I began to hire some people to the VMware cloud team. The goal was to increase the coverage across the world so we could interact with more customers. My one main goal was to hire no less than A++++++++++++ players. Sure VMware

Watermelon Reporting

scrumphony — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:21:02

think most of us experienced the phenomenon when the project status is red but is getting greener and greener when climbing the management ladder. The project's core is red but for the management it has a nice green paring so it looks like a watermelon.

App Tabs in Firefox 4 Beta 2

Alex Faaborg — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:20:49

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video, but you can still watch the video over at YouTube YouTube Theora 720p WebM 720p

Grails AS400 RPG Connection Pool

Denoncourt's Blog — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:20:37

In my last post I said: "For the most part, I did not have to do anything overly special to work with the AS400" in the development of the AS400-based Kettler USA retail site. The one area that took a bit of Grails-magic was some direct calls to RPG and

Beginning work on Curriculum 2013

SIGPLAN Education Board — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:20:17

The ACM and IEEE have begun the process of producing curriculum guidelines for computer science to replace the 2008 interim revision of the 2001 curriculum. The goal is to complete this work by 2013, continuing the long tradition of updates …

PHP: . want transparent master slave load balancing in mysqlnd?

Administrator — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:19:58

Are you interested in a master slave load balancing plugin for mysqlnd? It could have two operational modes. The automatic mode would operate transparent from an applications point of view. The manual mode would give you full control over all decisions.

Real-Time API Updates with XMPP

Kin Lane — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:19:50

I’m working on my prototype for a Google cloud printer that runs on a server. To set the stage, I want to get cloud print jobs sent from Google Docs using the Google Cloud Print Services Interface. You can retrieve a print job from the Google Cloud

NPR Features News Acceleration, Our Ability to Consume It

Louis Gray — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:19:15

Yesterday NPR Reporter Linton Weeks posted a interesting observational piece on the accelerating pace of news, from its discovery to a reaction - spurred forward not just by the 24 hour broadcast networks, but the parallel growth of social media, which

UX Lab: Changing the way you handle CRUD workflow

Scott Barnes — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:14:02

I often see a lot of consistent patterns in the way applications are being built when it comes to generic create, read, update and delete (CRUD) workflows . The usual pattern is that a screen starts off with a add/remove action followed by a very large

Mailbag: Why is the .NET Framework still listed in the Programs and Features control panel after running the cleanup tool?

Aaron Stebner — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:13:42

Question: I ran the .NET Framework cleanup tool and removed all versions of the .NET Framework from my computer.  Why do I still see the .NET Framework listed in the Programs and Features control panel after removing it with the cleanup tool?

15 Excellent Tutorials For Designing Business Cards

Loveish Kalsi — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:13:05

Business Card is the necessity of every business. In this post we will feature some of the best and excellent tutorials for designing business cards. You can create designer business cards for your business simply by following these tutorials. Enjoy!