Ziptastic is a simple API that allows people to ask which Country,State and City are associated with a Zip Code.

Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 3.2

"Fear is the disease and hustle is the cure"

Debugging Mac OS X performance issues.

"If you're like me in another way, you will occasionally use the Finder to browse through your files. The problem is that it's difficult to open an iTerm window set to the current Finder directory."

FunctionFlip individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa.

Nice collection of startup tools.

Cloud economics are based heavily on the load profile of your application.

"A mini firestorm broke out recently when 37Signals posted about their 2011 growth statistics. As part of the post, 37Signals told the world that the 100 millionth file to be uploaded to their software was the picture of a cat. Naturally those who subscribe to conspiracy theories got all fired up and started to express massive concern about 37Signals being able to access customer files."

Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.

"Don't get trapped in the "either-or" discussion of agility versus cost. Don't even imagine that these two characteristics are really different. They are just two expressions of the same phenomenon, virtualization automation."

"The Cloud Foundry ecosystem is growing quickly with increasing number of technology partners working with us to expand the choice of public cloud providers, private cloud distributions and cloud infrastructures."

"Hortonworks and Yahoo! are proud to host the 5th annual Hadoop Summit."

"GigaSpaces... is introducing a new solution for replicating data over a WAN using the GigaSpaces market-leading in-memory data grid and scaling technology."

A color scheme editor for Vim.

"Although the first couple years of the commercial Hadoop era have been characterized by an attitude of  'Hadoop is great, but …', the tone is changing as Hadoop vendors make the platform more palatable with each iteration."

Nice examples of start-to-finish logo design.

"VMware delivered a strong fourth quarter and raised its outlook for 2012. CEO Paul Maritz said that the company is working to provide products that 'go beyond cost reduction' and deliver 'competitive value.'"

"Many federal managers don't understand the platform-as-a-service cloud delivery model and how it can help agencies cut development costs by more than 50 percent, according to a new white paper by NJVC and Virtual Global."

"In the next iteration [of PaaS], the entire action will be centered around the power of data. Instead of data sources being one of the many components of today’s PaaS system, the next iteration of PaaS will be dealing with a more powerful 'Data as a Service', which will include data sources, data cleaning tools, data management tools and, more importantly, a very powerful analytics engine."

Great article by Krish on the future of PaaS.

"A year after Rackspace and NASA unveiled OpenStack, Rackspace is planning to deploy the open source software across its entire cloud infrastructure."

Rackspace's planned dog-fooding of OpenStack is a good thing for the project and its users.

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"With the increasing popularity of server-side Javascript, you may want to have Javascript everywhere. You can use Javascript outside of a browser, on any platform."

Resources for learning Python/Django

Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady

This post is dedicated to a team of promising young entrepreneurs who asked me recently if they could all just “put some money in a bank account” to launch their startup. I wanted to say 'yes' because I know how much other work they have to do to build a successful company. But instead I had to warn them that there were several essential elements of their corporate structure they had to get right now to maximize their probability of success.

The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford's machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The only content not covered here is the Octave/MATLAB programming.

social network for travellers

Yay, power tools!

Waffles seeks to be the world's most comprehensive collection of command-line tools for machine learning and data mining. Our native tools have minimal dependencies (no interpreter, VM, or runtime environment is necessary), and build cross-platform. If you have a useful data mining tool that meets these criteria, we want it in Waffles.

The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client. In other words your app can have a real time connection to the server with the advantage of instant updates. Although the obvious use of this is for chat, the most exciting prospect is collaborative cms and wikis.

Fast, highly concurrent web applications with no callbacks

Vundle - plug-in manager for vim

Cool collection of tools for designers.

Cool typing game. You can play against other people.

WriteThat.Name recognizes signatures as soon as you receive an email and updates your address book.

ql.io – a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing down network latency and bandwidth usage in certain use cases.

ql.io consists of a domain-specific language inspired by SQL and JSON, and a node.js-based runtime to process scripts written in that language.

Google-Fu reference

"This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, parametric/non-parametric learning, neural networks, support vector machines); unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, kernel methods); learning theory (bias/variance tradeoffs; VC theory; large margins); reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing."

GoToWebinar competitor

"To edit efficiently in Vim, you have to edit beyond individual characters. Instead, edit by word, sentence, and paragraph. In Vim, these higher-level contexts are called text objects.

Vim provides text objects for both plaintext and common programming language constructs. You can also define new text objects using Vim script.

Learning these text objects can take your Vim editing to a whole new level of precision and speed."

Lessons learned building an API

Identifying different pieces of interior trim.

"Lets say you want to post from your Android or Iphone WordPress clients to a custom post type instead of the the defualt ‘post’ type. Paste the code below in your functions.php and you should be good to go."

Training a Large Scale Classifier with the
Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

"Have you ever been in the situation where you need to quickly understand what a piece of code in some unfamiliar language does? For Haskell, this is a little more difficult, since Haskell syntax looks very different from traditional languages. But there's no really deep difference here; you just have to squint at it just right."

Instant CSS Documentation Search

"The Naive Bayes classifier is one of the most versatile machine learning algorithms that I have seen around during my meager experience as a graduate student, and I wanted to do a toy implementation for fun."

Great reading on virality

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Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms.

"In this post I will show you how you can easily import IMDb data for your movies and process the XML to get SQL for database import. From there you can start to build your movie site."

"After recently remarking about how I finally "got" functional programming I was asked by one of my millions of twitter followers... ¬_¬ to write up an explanation of a small F# program spoken in terms that fellow O-O programmers would understand."

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Stanford Computer Science CS193H: High Performance Web Sites