chris @ July 16, 2010 # One Comment
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 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 […]
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)
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)
chris @ July 8, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Beneficiaries of CAP payments - Agriculture and Rural Development - EUROPA
Official EU page that links to each member state's "transparency" site. Since 2008, member states are obliged to make the list of CAP payment recipients public. Each, of course, rolls their own, and few make raw data available for download.
(tags: data politics Europe EU CAP)
boomerang […]
chris @ July 5, 2010 # No Comment Yet
On Language - The Origins of 'One-off' - NYTimes.com
Online version only, but still cool: The ECDB in Ben Zimmer's "On Language" column.
(tags: eggcorns ECDB nytimes media language)
chris @ June 17, 2010 # One Comment
Efficient String Concatenation in Python
A comparison of 6 methods of concatenating strings.
(tags: programming performance python algorithms benchmark)
chris @ June 8, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Beginning Perl (free) - Simon Cozens
Simon Cozens' "Beginning Perl" (O'Reilly) is online for free via Google Docs.
(tags: book coding documentation perl programming)
Perl Unicode Advice - Juerd's site
Juerd's Perl Unicode advice — useful.
(tags: coding development encoding i18n perl unicode reference)
chris @ June 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions
Very useful collection of email-address validating regular expressions. HOWEVER, as Justin Mason pointed out (http://taint.org/2010/06/01/165656a.html), there is an error in the list of "valid" addresses, when it comes to the syntax to addresses where the domain part is an IP address.
(tags: regex reference email rfc)
chris @ May 31, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Tragic Race to Be First to the South Pole | Wired Science
Wired Science article on American Museum of Natural History exhibition.
(tags: antarctic exploration history museum science article)