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Links for July 16th :

• ScraperWiki – An interesting spin on crowdsourcing data
• Aunt Sarah’s: The Home of Simply Delicious – Easily the best chocolate/candy bars I've ever had. Really. I ended up buying out some kids entire inventory for a school fundraiser.
• Setting up xinput controls in Ubuntu – Notes on properly setting up your multitouch touchpad to have the proper xinput settings
• jqGrid: jQuery datagrid – Fancy pants datagrid with the ability to drag/drop rows, edit content and dynamically load data.
• More Lessons from Political Science : CJR – If poli-sci wonks wrote journalism…

Links for July 14th :

• Integrated Windows Authentication in Java with Kerberos SPNEGO – The intent of this project is to provide an alternative library (.jar file) that application servers (like Tomcat) can use as the means for authenticating clients (like web browsers).
• Google – public data –
• Top 10 Performance Problems taken from Zappos, Monster, Thomson and Co Performance, Scalability and Architecture – Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) –
• Screencast: Like Slime, for Vim « Jonathan’s Techno-tales – Screencast of vim interacting with GNU screen to emulate parts of SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode). Basically – you can get vim to do all kinds of IDE-ish things.
• App Inventor for Android – Pure awesome. App Inventor is pretty much Scratch for Android.

Links for April 26th :

• python-loggingserver – This projects provides a Python Logging Server based on the Twisted framework
• gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library – Very nice looking javascript charting api
• Datadotgc.ca – A citizen-led beta for government data | datadotgc.ca – Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy.
• Keeping tabs on Canada’s Parliament | openparliament.ca – I look forward to keeping tabs on my MP. <br /> <br /> FANTASTIC!
• Bank of Canada: Monetary Policy Report –

Links for April 21st :

• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce – The pre-production manuscript of a book in the Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Anticipated publication date is mid-2010.
• Global methylation profiling of lymphoblastoid cell lines reveals epigenetic contributions to autism spectrum disorders and a novel autism candidate gene, RORA, whose protein product is reduced in autistic brain — Nguyen et al., 10.1096/fj.10-154484 -… –
• Data | The World Bank –
• GATE.ac.uk – ie/index.html –
• The SEC and the Python « Prof. Jayanth R. Varma’s Financial Markets Blog – Fantastic. I'm apparently inventing the future.

Links for March 9th :

• Refinancing tempting at these rates – The Globe and Mail –
• The Toyota Witch Hunt – BusinessWeek –
• API Documentation – Efficient similarity search by implementing different data structures for indexing metric spaces. Basically – a bk-tree.
• http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/formencode – Nice article on FormEncode – because the Pylons docs are frankly kind of lacking
• SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave –

Links for September 14th :

• Deciphering Glyph: What I Wish Tornado Were – Twisted, Tornado and other nerdery
• Tornado Web Server – YAWF for Python.
• CSC490/2125 Fall 2009 – This fall, graduate and undergraduate students in Computer Science at the University of Toronto will have the chance to show the world how they can use this data to make their city a better place to live.
• http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/wg.htm –
• Link Grammar –