links for 2010-08-23
chris @ August 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Another Android Blog » Android Database Tutorial
Maybe useful.
(tags: android database sql sqlite programming)
links for 2010-08-15
chris @ August 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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 […]
links for 2010-08-06
chris @ August 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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 […]
links for 2010-08-02
chris @ August 3, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)
links for 2010-07-31
chris @ August 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)
links for 2010-07-16
chris @ July 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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 […]
links for 2010-07-15
chris @ July 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)
links for 2010-07-13
chris @ July 14, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)
Unicode code […]
links for 2010-07-12
chris @ July 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)
links for 2010-07-08
chris @ July 9, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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)