"RRDtool is the Open Source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. It stores the data in a very compact way that will not expand over time, and it can create beautiful graphs."
In general, processes take longer to start than threads. This makes sense if you think about it - a thread lives within the memory space of its parent process, so it takes less work
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access
A 100% cotton, black t-shirt features a pile of dead, white kittens in a little puddle of adorable blood with the caption, "Every time you Can Has, God kills a LOLcat."
For every musical instrument that becomes a symbol of modern music, many more are doomed to become the retarded cousin that gets stashed in the basement during dinner parties. Below, we present the best of those retarded cousins.
Getting started with Jersey is very easy. First, download the latest distribution of Jersey and unzip it. If you are using NetBeans IDE 6.x, you do not need to download the Jersey distribution. Instead, install the RESTful Web Services plugin from the Plu
The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models. New generic views simplify data retrieval and modification in a resource-centric architecture
A while ago I created a lot of icons for web applications I designed while working for the most excellent employer there is: Manentia Software. Now, we decided to liberate them with a Creative Commons license for everyone to use and enjoy!
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks SOA practice leader talks to Stefan Tilkov about Guerilla SOA, Description Language (SSDL).
In analyzing my data I wanted to classify it with a naive Bayesian classifier. I wasn't sure I had the math right, so I wrote a tiny abstract classifier to test with. The code is pretty cool:
The process of writing large parallel programs is complicated by the need to specify both the parallel behaviour of the program and the algorithm that is to be used to compute its result.
Duplicity is a backup program that only backs up the files (and parts of files) that have been modified since the last backup. Built on FLOSS (rsync, GnuPG, tar, and rdiff), it allows efficient, locally encrypted, remote backups.
Based on this great blog post by Tim McCormack, I managed to write some scripts that back up files to Amazon S3. The files are encrypted with GnuPG and rsync-ed to S3 using a Python-based tool called duplicity.
Welcome to the Unix Tree. Here you can browse the source code and manuals of various old versions of UNIX. For every file, you can also find related files from other versions: this can help show how the different versions of UNIX are related.
Want to write shorter, cleaner code? Have an unfortunate situation where you need to fit as much as you can in one expression? Prefer a quick dose of hacks to spending the rest of your life reading the docs? You've come to the right place.
Today we'll be writing a simple todo list application. My goal is not to show you the finer points of todo lists, but rather to show you how to properly set up a webpy project for small to medium sized applications.
Once again a post aimed at the PHP community, not so much of a rant but more of something I’ve seen done horribly wrong in a lot of PHP code recently, first let me take a few examples from a couple of well known PHP frameworks and libraries:
With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
Amazon's S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here's the executive summary version:
Myghty is a Python based templating framework originally based on HTML::Mason, the enterprise-level framework used by Amazon.com, del.icio.us and Salon.com,
Content Management System, pronounced "CMS", is a generic term for all types of system to manage some kind of content. If you think this sounds loose and fluffy, it is.
The CMF is the Content Management Framework, an important additional piece of infrastructure for Zope which has also influenced the design of Zope 3. CMF is required by Plone and Nuxeo CPS, also ERP5 uses it (see their prerequisites list);
ended the last post with a discussion of the fundamental problem with Django's Object-Relational Mapper, namely, that it is developed for and by Django
When a web application receives more requests than it can handle over a short period of time, it can become unresponsive. In the worst case, too many concurrent requests to a web application can cause the software which services the application to crash.