Category Archives: code

Mailing for Thinkup – Hacking a Solution without using Sendmail

Posted on February 10, 2013 by jay

I’ve been meaning to try Thinkup for a long time now, and finally got around to trying it out. I also decided this was also a good time to try a RaspberryPi and so the system I ended up running … Continue reading →

Posted in code, opensource | 17 Comments

A Digital Revolution

Posted on June 3, 2012 by jay

As an exercise in citizen participation in Government I developed a Digital Government Tracker. At a pivotal time in history, a famous man once said: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new … Continue reading →

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Processing… Processing

Posted on November 5, 2010 by jay

Like most people I’ve been bitten by the “social networks take up all my blogging time” bug. But in reality, I think that’s OK. I once read someone who said SMS is becoming the polite way of conversing, as opposed … Continue reading →

Posted in code, visualization | 2 Comments

Skinned Programming Paradigms

Posted on October 19, 2009 by jay

Here’s a free thought for you. How much of people choice in programming languages is really syntax dependent? For example, I dislike Java (I hate it for other reasons) simply because of the verbosity of ‘System.out.println’ and don’t really understand … Continue reading →

Posted in code, frustration, inspiration | 5 Comments

Cloudera’s Hadoop Education

Posted on June 14, 2009 by jay

A while back, after Cloudera released their lectures and VMware image for Hadoop, I watched the training sessions and worked through some of the initial exercises. I must say I was a little disappointed by the videos but I believe … Continue reading →

Posted in code, mapreduce, opensource, python | 1 Comment