http://www.eamonn.org/blog "The future is already here. ..." * Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:58:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just discovered that in my neighborhood is a business called Well Beings Veterinary Homeopathy. People in the city do treat their pets like people, and belief in homeopathy is consistent with stereotypes of Californians, but what really tickled me was to see the “well” prefix (usually as in ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=979 Hector – a Java Cassandra client | PrettyPrint.me This looks like it may be the best Java API for ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=973 .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Challenging Dogma, originally uploaded by andrewrosspoetry. I somehow got sucked into a rather exhausting debate on evolution with creationist Andrew Ross in the comment section of one of his photographs on Flickr. http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=971 Scrum Basics A very good overview and cheat-sheet of the Scrum agile process for software development. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=966 Gremlin: A Graph-Based Programming Language This is a Java-embeddable language that can perform queries on generalized graphs using a ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=965 I never tried this before, but here is my first attempt at creating music. The words are from a poem by W.B. Yeats; the music and the performance are by me. Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=942 JCommander Nice easy-to-use command-line argument parser with a lot of functionality. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=938 HTML5 Studio Some quite impressive examples of what you can do in HTML5 -- easy to copy and adapt. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=921 SCHED* Unofficial Guide to SXSW 2010: Schedule for Panel Events @ Austin, TX The panel schedule for the last ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=920 ColumnText This seems to be the itext class to use for line wrapping and determining how many lines of ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=919 Blog of Data » Blog Archive » Riak and Cassandra and HBase, oh my! Interesting article and comments looking ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=918 Java 2D - Image width/height without loading file into JVM? Handy memory optimization ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=917 Running Hadoop MapReduce With Cassandra NoSQL « All Things Hadoop ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=916 Logo Design, Web Design and Copywriting by the World's Best Creative Team | crowdSPRING Similar to Logoworks. Covered ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=909 Welcome to the Shared Digital Future | www.hathitrust.org A way to access scanned books without going through Google ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=908 + Glasnevin Aerial Picture What my neighborhood looked like in 1972. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=907 API - Cassandra Wiki A terse but definitive guide to the Cassandra Thrift API. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=906 org.apache.cassandra.thrift Low-level Java API to Cassandra ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=905 src/main/java/me/prettyprint/cassandra/service/ExampleClient.java at master from rantav's hector - GitHub Example Cassandra client using the Hector library ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=904 jersey: Home A nice framework for implementing REST services in Java. It's use of annotations make the code ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=897 libcloud python library - a unified interface to cloud server providers Simple python scripting of different elastic cloud infrastructure ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=895 Screencast-O-Matic - Record screen capture video instantly for free! Very convenient to make screencasts. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=893 Thanks again to the beta testers who have helped shape the features in this release. The Beta 0.5 will soon be available for installation from the Palm application web page. Changes: Internal changes to how the search radius is adjusted according to the local density of photographs. Make the refresh button semi-transparent. Miscellaneous bug fixes. Please ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=885 Nrby Photos - Cyrket Comments and ratings of my Palm WebOS app ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=884 Thanks again to the beta testers who have helped shape the features in this release. The Beta 0.4 is now available for installation from the Palm application web page. Changes: Photos do not now automatically refresh when new photos are available, but instead the user controls the refresh explicitly by pressing a button. Included ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=873 PyWebShot – Generate website thumbnails using Python | Coderholic Rendering web pages to images using a Python wrapper around ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=870 pivotal's jasmine at master - GitHub A nice-looking JavaScript test framework that can be used when building WebOS apps. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=869 Thanks to all the beta testers of the 0.2 release for your testing and reviews. A much improved 0.3 version is now ready for installation from the Palm application web page. Changes in 0.3: Display the photo title, which is also a hyperlink to the Flick photo page. Improve ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=861 Private Members in JavaScript Patterns for creating private, privileged, and public members of a JavaScript object. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=859 Qt 4.6: All Qt Classes (main index) C++ API doc for Qt, including QtWebkit ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=856 Calculate distance and bearing between two Latitude/Longitude points using Haversine formula in JavaScript Handy code snippets for calculating distances ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=854 Displays photographs that people on the Flickr have taken close to your current location. Flick left and right to browse through the photographs. Automatically updates as you move. (All photographs are copyright of their owners.) You can install the beta release from the Palm application web page. This is a personal open-source ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=848 Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples - Smashing Magazine Great examples of Web design ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=845 Reference Library – Palm Developer Center WebOS APIs ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=844 Typekit Better fonts in your web pages (for a price) ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=842 HTML5 presentation A really good overview and demonstration of the new capabilities of HTML5. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=837 Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines | Page 2 | Fast Company Yet another concept video for ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=836 Structural Tags in HTML5 - Ordered List How to use HTML5 in current browser -- even IE. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=834 David Rumsey Historical Map Collection| The Collection A good source of historical maps recommended by Joel Pomerantz of Thinkwalks ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=831 Index of /repo-releases/ The scala-specific repository used by default by SBT ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=830 UJMP » Universal Java Matrix Package » About A very flexible Java programming framework that integrates many different Java ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=827 Taking The Tablet: 15 Ways Publishers Are Re-Imagining The Magazine | paidContent An interesting round-up, with pointed commentary, of how ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=825 How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App Handy step-by-step tutorial on using new HTML5, with and iPhone specific features ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=822 optimal - Project Hosting on Google Code Java package for solving systems of linear equations ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=821 The meme of Christianity was in decline on the Western fringe of Europe as the Germanic tribes of the Angles and Saxons and Franks swept aside the lingering Celtic-Roman society left behind by the Roman Empire. But, some carriers of the meme, personified in legend as St Patrick, made ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=819 A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods A great visualization of the universe of diagram types ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=815 Understanding Git Conceptually The Git source code control system has a lot of advantages compared to the more established ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=814 Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! This site is really useful for optimizing web page performance. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=813 I like the Pimsleur courses a lot. They allow you to get to a very basic speaking level in a language very quickly. The courses are audio-only -- in fact, they expressly discourage you from reading the language while you are listening to the course. Nevertheless, now that I am ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=767 SMAP and TSMAP Segmentation Software Document image segmentation ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=762 Patent US7668400 One of my patents just got granted. "Image layout constraint generation" ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=761 Wired Magazine goes Digital Wired and Adobe's concept of what a digital version of Wired would look like on ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=760 Re: [iText-questions] Finding / Removing Object from PDF Part of the answer of how to remove objects from PDF. ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=756 redis - Project Hosting on Google Code A key-value database that claims to be very fast, and has bindings ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=755 The iText library is a great resource for generating and manipulating PDF files. However its API is very complex and there is a notable lack of good online tutorial material. So you often must resort to plowing through the Javadoc-generated API documentation trying to figure out how to ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=750 I have seen several reverences to Airnergy device by RCA that claims to recharge a battery by harvesting WiFi signals from the air. That sounded a bit fishy to me. Let's look at some numbers. First, how much power does a WiFi hotspot put out? According to moonblinkwifi.com a ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=738 I created this list of Chinese characters for my own benefit in trying to learn them. I took Jun Da's list of most frequently used characters and added a Google image search to provide some mnemonics. I added tone-color and exaggerated tone marks to the pinyin to help ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=722 Scalate So far, Lift has been the only Scala-specific way of creating web applications. Scalate offers a lightweight ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=718 ePub Zen Garden Nice example of how different CSS can be used to display ePub format nicely on the ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=716 BBC - Languages - Real Chinese ... http://www.eamonn.org/blog/?p=715