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search engines find information. A typical flow of the process is the following: (1) We send a query. (2) A list of results is displayed. (3) Go through the first new pages on the top of the list and try to find information that we are after.
Archive | June, 2008
links for 2008-06-07
June 7, 2008 
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links for 2008-06-06
June 6, 2008 0 Comments
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With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you’re done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.
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There’s no question that 37Singals is succeeding. The company doesn’t just have customers, it has raving fans, and its leaders are certified Web celebrities.
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Fuzed is an Erlang-based clustering system designed to let several
single-threaded processes (which may or may not be reliable) form
into a pool which can serve requests to remote hosts.
links for 2008-06-05
June 5, 2008 0 Comments
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This new API provides access to one of the largest collections of address books on the Internet–the contact system behind Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Go
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Java Power Tools contains deep explanations of the principal FOSS dev tools in 10 major categories.
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At JavaOne 2008, LinkedIn employees presented two sessions about the LinkedIn architecture. The slides are available online:
* LinkedIn – A Professional Social Network Built with Java™ Technologies and Agile Practices
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Many a senior executive team has tried, and failed, to reduce IT demand. Problem is, there are too many requests requiring too much detailed knowledge to manage IT demand from above. IT congestion can be reduced
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find ways to collect as much user input as possible without being disruptive. People don’t train systems, they try to benefit themselves, but this is the best kind of training data
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capistrano_twitter just prompts you for a status update when you deploy and then updates the twitter status for the specified user (in config/deploy.rb). Of course, if you leave the status blank, no update will be made.
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discuss some basic design principles of REST
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ChainBuilder for SIF Zone Integration Server is the ideal message hub to securely and efficiently connect school applications through SIF-enabled software
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Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure
links for 2008-06-04
June 4, 2008 0 Comments
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Pool Party is an open source tool that automates deployment, monitoring, and load balancing of EC2 instances.
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SmugMug is a profitable business, and we like to keep it that way. The secrets to efficiently using EC2, at least in our use case, are as follows
links for 2008-06-03
June 3, 2008 0 Comments
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3 MySQL servers for Twitter? Consider how that compares to other Web 2.0 sites that have come clean with their database numbers; Facebook has 1800, Flickr has 166, even Wikipedia has 20. Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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DriverSide is looking to change this trend by creating an automobile community that will be useful throughout the life of your vehicle. The site creates a profile tailored to your virtual garage, and offers options accordingly.
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Interested in the comments your friends make? What if there was a way to follow your friends and be notified when, where, and also what they comment? Intense Debate provides this functionality
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Interface style guides are extremely useful to define best practices for design and development.
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ODIR removes duplicates from Contacts; Calendar; Tasks; Notes and Email folders.
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Free Outlook add-in for saving and extracting attachments, decreasing the size of your Outlook files. Easy-to-use. Plenty of features. Does the same as the concurrents do, but for free.
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Railsconf in 36 minutes from Gregg Pollack on Vimeo.
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AceBackup is a powerful tool to create completely secure backups of your data. Store your data on any local storage device, on CD, DVD or on your remote FTP server!
links for 2008-06-02
June 2, 2008 0 Comments
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twitter for education.
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Kirix™ Strata™ is a “data browser” — a fusion of a web browser and a built-in relational database. Strata brings the sensibilities and simplicity of a web browser to the world of tabular data, making it easy to access, view and use data from an
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event also lined up 10 startup demos so that they could show off some interesting technology.
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this article takes you through the steps needed to create a WSDL 2.0 description for a REST Web service using the following simple example scenario.
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page contains links to various mysql tools we found helpful to use in practice.
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We’ve decided to let folks edit Mahalo pages (see image on right).
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Amazon, as a Web-scale application, had to build cloud computing services anyway to allow course grained communication between app developers and network administrators.
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Acrobat users can convert MOV and WMV files to Flash content that can be embedded within PDFs alongside audio content and even 3D models. The free Acrobat Reader 9 will play the movies, eliminating the need to open other media players.
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Bezos goes on to note that Amazon’s retailing operation is “a low gross margin business” compared to software and technology businesses, which “tend to have very high margins.”
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It’s worth noting that that’s 6000 writes per second, sustained, and that this application peaks at about 3x that. By comparison, Twitter was once reported as having 600 requests/s (read and write).
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The idea of linking ads with search results was first developed not by Google but by Overture Services who was bought in 2003 by Yahoo.
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Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode
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This works on the assumption the person has no previous knowledge about SCM
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Sun merged Java Studio Creator and Sun Java Studio Enterprise tools into the free NetBeans. The reason: Sun saw the tools market no longer made sense as a business if the goal was to make money from selling software licenses to developers.
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When MagLev is widely available, it basically means that there will be a truly enterprise-class option for writing trading systems, logistics and other large persistent object-heavy systems in Ruby.
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Microsoft plans to demonstrate integration Friday between its new Silveright browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and the Ruby on Rails Web framework.
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MetaSploit has a strange name, but MetaSploit is a very cool development platform that assists information security professionals in creating tools and exploits
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1. The fundamentals never go out of style.
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The Bluegrass project is investigating the use of 3D virtual worlds to support distributed work.
links for 2008-06-01
June 1, 2008 0 Comments
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When Flash Player 9 goes into full screen mode, it pops up a little security message that tells the user how to exit full screen mode. Still, I wondered if it could be obscured.
