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Using contextual clues provided by the user, Swirrl builds up a picture of your data and it’s structure behind the scenes, allowing some powerful searching and analysis. So, it’s it easy for the user to add semantic information to their data in the context of their normal work, with no need for any manual entry of semantic mark-up.

Cafferty noted, “I’m 65 and have been covering politics as have you for a long time. that is one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I of ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country.”

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel – Get information from an Excel file.

This module allows you to generate MS Excel compatible files on any platform

Shrub lists files in public S3 buckets. For when you want to share a bucket with the world.
How?

1. Create a bucket. Make it publicly readable.
2. Point people at your bucket: http://shrub.appspot.com/bucket-name
3. Make sure files in the bucket are publicly readable (if you want people to be able to access them).

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Spree also provides a highly sophisticated inventory model. Inventory is tracked at the variant level and a flexible system for handling backorders is also provided. Users with simple inventory needs will not have to concern themselves with the more complex features. Advanced users will be able to track units of inventory on a per record basis which allows for the physical tracking of each unit of inventory as it moves through the order fulfillment process.

Available in PDF form, the cards summarize the most important data types, function calls, and command line tools for each service. Cards are now available for AAWS, DevPay, EC2, FWS, Mechanical Turk, and SQS, with more to follow before too long.

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Ruby/DBI is not an ORM, like ActiveRecord or DataMapper. It is a lightweight, centralized API to database manipulation.

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.

Ruby alternative, keep an eye on Aman Gupta's recent project: em-mysql. An EventMachine wrapper around MySQLPlus, it is already showing very promising results:

For Rubyists ready to play with BOSS, Jay Pignata has developed BOSSMan, a library for interacting with the Yahoo! BOSS Web service

Configatron is a new Ruby library that makes it easy to have persistently accessible configuration data available through your Ruby application.

here are several barebones Rails apps that might provide a good base for your own template.

specify that the engine find blog posts, microblog posts, bookmarks, comments, events, images, links from social news websites, or videos.

if you care about replication latency you must not have any long running updates. Queries or transactions containing multiple update queries which add up to long time.

Everything you need to know to build a smoking-fast, no-compromises, gaming PC

The goal of a design document for your manager is to make sure that your manager understands what the main entities of the system are, what the benefits are and, most importantly, what the risks are. The document is your chance to show that you understand the requirements and that you have come up with a plan to meet those requirements.

Apple recently announced it is blocking developers' abilities to distribute iPhone applications outside of iTunes.

EventVue creates social networks based on conferences and events. Because networking is such a valuable component of these conferences, many people would like to see who else will be attending. Users can tag themselves with their companies, job titles, and other criteria, which can help facilitate personal interaction once the conference arrives.

Devver offers a suite of development tools in the cloud that allows developers to run time intensive processes on remote server farms, which it says can improve productivity by 75%. The company is currently focused on the Ruby programming language and automated testing tools (which is says have a multi-billion dollar market), and plans to expand to more lanugages and applications.

Gbridge is a free software that lets you sync folders, share files, chat and VNC securely and easily. It extends Google's gtalk service to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that connects your computers and your close friends' computers directly and securely. Gbridge has many unique features.

All it does is ask you for a user name, and then pings about 45 services so it can return to you "taken" or "available" for each one.

That’s roughly $765,000 over a few years off roughly the same content. Insight and ideas about how we run our business. Blog entries, PDF, paperback, and conferences.

What are your friends doing this week?
mixin lets you share your daily activities and intentions
to get together more often with your friends

Most important, we established a straightforward and lightweight release management process to ensure that future releases would happen on time and to the required quality. Follow along as we show you how we did it—including the mistakes we made.

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SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.

# Gettting an Amazon S3 Account
# Using Amazon S3
# Amazon S3 as Image Hosting
# Amazon S3 Applications and Other Resources

In 2007, Wall Street's five biggest firms– Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley – paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves.

alternative. It is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox called Yahoo Fantasy Football Free Stats.

Powerset is excited that we’re already able to make improvements to Live Search. Expect more announcements in the coming months, both of Powerset’s technology integrated into Live Search and of enhancements to Powerset.com.

Personally, as an admin, I wouldn't see any real need to deploy a browser other than IE in my enterprise. I don't care how much faster the pages may come up. Even before IE incorporated tabbed browsing, I wouldn't have made the move to Firefox. I'd need a far more compelling case than "the pages load a nanosecond faster" or "I can download cool skins for my new browser" or even "I just don't want IE to win" to add yet another uncontrollable app to my world.

a tool called “dbmon.pl” (which you can download the source code for), is used. It’s a daemon that watches the MySQL instance for queries that have been running longer than a time limit set on the commandline, and kills queries that take longer than that.

At the highest level, you can think of the Digg databases as a four-master set of clusters. We shall call them A, B, C, and D. Two of the masters (masters A and B) are masters only, and two (masters C and D) are slaves of one of the other masters (A).

Jay Pipes, High Performance MySQL , Colin Charles and others (see References below) for a Sun Tech Days MySQL presentation

Curator’s job is to say no. Curator takes an entire universe of options to decide whether or not something makes it into a museum. If you think of your product as a museum and your features as art then you’re in charge. If you take all of the possible art and put it into a room it doesn’t make it a museum. All the art in the world in a single room isn’t a museum it’s a warehouse.

Trism, the $5 gravity/tilt-assisted iPhone puzzle game by Steve Demeter, has made $250,000 since July 11.

Summizer quickly and easily tracks Twitter and follows the trends you care about. Don't waste time entering your searches over and over again. Summizer allows you to save your search terms for 1 touch access later.

the OSx86 Project offers users a place to trade and share information about OSx86 and the various hardware needed to run it; a virtual Wikipedia of OSx86 resources.