links for 2010-07-13

Unicode Primer for the Uninitiated: Internationalization Article | Freelance Blogging
This article is lagging in quality behind the classic Unicode intros by Tim Bray and Joel Spolsky, and contains a few annoying errors. However, I could see it being of use for non-techies who find Bray and Spolsky too technical.
(tags: i18n unicode development coding tutorial)

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links for 2010-07-12

Datejs - An open-source JavaScript Date Library
Javascript datetime library. Localized into a bunch of languages.
(tags: datejs datetime opensource javascript web development)

Map Projections: Contents
Excellent manual on map projections.
(tags: geography mapping mathematics science visualization)

Git Magic - Preface
Excellent, comprehensive Git tutorial.
(tags: git howto tutorial book software)

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links for 2010-07-08

Farm Subsidy Raw Data Store
Data from the various EU member states' transparency sites regarding CAP payments, collected by farmsubsidy.org. Most are zipped Excel files, ugh.
(tags: data CAP Europe EU)

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links for 2010-08-23

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• Another Android Blog » Android Database Tutorial
  Maybe useful.
  (tags: android database sql sqlite programming)

chris @ August 24, 2010

links for 2010-08-15

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• Protovis - Treemaps
  Javascript graphing library - I think the result needs polish, but there are a lot of good resources on the page for treemap graphing algorithms.
  (tags: charts javascript treemap visualization visualisation reference)
• Common Queries Tree
• An Easy Way to Make a Treemap
  In R, you can make a Treemap visualization in 4 lines of code.
  (tags: visualization visualisation tutorial howto r treemap computing data)

chris @ August 16, 2010

links for 2010-08-06

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• CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
  The master hoard of locale data.
  (tags: internationalization l10n i18n reference development software unicode cldr)
• PyICU @ Open Source Applications Foundation
  Python wrapper for the ICU i18n library. Documentation is a bit scant.
  (tags: i18n development internationalization library python icu unicode)
• ICU - International Components for Unicode
  ICU, by IBM, seems to be THE thing to use for serious i18n. There are Python bindings for it, but they're not very well documented.
  (tags: development i18n internationalization c java libraries)

chris @ August 7, 2010

links for 2010-08-02

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• pymc - Markov Chain Python Library
  Bayesian estimation, particularly using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). For modelling.
  (tags: algorithms bayesian coding python research statistics library)
• EuroPython 2009: Python and the IMAP protocol — bruno.im
  Bruno Renié's talk about Python and IMAP.
  (tags: email python programming IMAP tutorial)

chris @ August 3, 2010

links for 2010-07-31

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• Pingdom Tools | DNS Check
  Useful web-based tool ("DNS Health Check"), very gentle display of results. They also have ping/traceroute tools and a general web page test.
  (tags: dns tools pingdom webapp)
• Email Previews and Email Marketing Analytics - Litmus
  Smart fellows.
  (tags: emailmarketing emal webapp)

chris @ August 1, 2010

links for 2010-07-16

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• Splashy Icons - free icons for prototyping
  Another free icon set, similar to Famfamfam.
  (tags: design webdesign graphics icons)
• Loic Dachary / Text-Unaccent - search.cpan.org
  Perl module Text-Unaccent on CPAN. For when you need to normalize éêëè… to e, and so forth.
  (tags: perl CPAN coding encoding programming)
• Crockford on JavaScript: A Public Lecture Series at Yahoo!
  Really excellent. Five lectures, the first one being purely a history of computing.
  (tags: history lectures programming webdev yahoo tutorial douglascrockford javascript video web)

chris @ July 17, 2010

links for 2010-07-15

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• John Rauser: TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance | Mike Bailey's blog
  John Rauser from Amazon speaks at Velocity 2010 about network latency and web performance.
  (tags: network performance web amazon johnrauser development design)

chris @ July 16, 2010