links for 2010-08-02

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)

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links for 2010-07-31

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)

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links for 2010-07-16

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 […]

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links for 2010-12-01

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• Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory
  Full text of all papers. Endangered languages, language documentation, preservation, and theory.
  (tags: linguistics language)

chris @ December 2, 2010

links for 2010-10-09

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• Jo HTML5 Mobile App Framework
  Interesting. Seems to have a bit of a learning curve. Cross-platform mobile web apps (and native apps).
  (tags: html5 opensource development javascript mobile framework iphone android)

chris @ October 10, 2010

links for 2010-09-29

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• The Spamhaus Whitelist
  They've clearly given this some thought. Interesting.
  (tags: email privacy spam spamhaus whitelist)

chris @ September 30, 2010

links for 2010-09-12

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• Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5 | Nettuts+
  By Christian Heilmann. Very neat. Might use this soon.
  (tags: css css3 tutorial development webdev html5)

chris @ September 13, 2010

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