Category Archives: opensource
Cloudera’s Hadoop Education
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
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Build your own ioGun!
I apologize for what will effectively be a brain dump post, but a new friend of mine from the hackaday forums is getting started on his own accelerometer controlled system and I wanted to see if I could save him … Continue reading
Posted in code, hardware, inspiration, iobridge, opensource, python
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Amazon should participate in the OpenWeb
The socialweb.tv talks a lot about open standards, particularly in social networks. I find their videos are always energetic and help keep me abreast on aspects of the web that I don’t get to deal with frequently. I believe their … Continue reading
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Back in Bash
Quick little post today, Using my previous two scripts you’ve (1) been able to separate a massive photo directory into 3rds (2) been able to take one of those directories and identify matching photos and move them into directories of … Continue reading
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Continuing to Code
Well, my python’s not exactly getting prettier but I’ve been able to make it more functional, may I present “find_image_dups.py”! Although I’m learning this 4G language (is it truly?) I still tend towards a shell scripting approach so I write … Continue reading
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Progress in the New Year
Welcome to the New Year! A lot has happened already, between Google changing their page rank, Apple’s numerous announcements and tons of other cool stuff. I’ve been getting back into the swing of things and mostly trying to figure out … Continue reading
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The Next Social Network: WordPress – GigaOM
I really appreciated the thoughts in The Next Social Network: WordPress – GigaOM. I’ve been on Facebook for a while now (and prior to that LinkedIn) and despite my initial misgivings, I’ve been surprised at how much value social networks … Continue reading
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Code of Conduct
Brad has some great comments on my post about how software needs to extend beyond a single locality. I’ve yet to be happy with the “comment” structure of the blog’o’sphere, so I’ll follow Brad’s example and put my thoughts here, … Continue reading
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Embodying Opensource
Just the other day I wrote how I hope the “opensource” culture, not of technology but of social obligation, will begin to evolve the enterprise. I’ve been working through a serious backlog of articles, and while this one’s been on … Continue reading
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If I could change the world…
I often think I have good ideas, but I tend to be a “thinker” and have problems “doing”. It’s not that I can’t “do” it’s usually the familiar feeling of saying “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” quickly followed by “yea, … Continue reading
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