Archive for December, 2006

links for 2006-12-30

30th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

13 things that do not make sense – space – 19 March 2005 – New Scientist Space
(tags: science)

RichardDawkins.net – The Official Richard Dawkins Website
various videos from around the net as collected by richarddawkins.net
(tags: science)

Duboce
Wrapper around Flickr
(tags: photo)

map.png (PNG Image, 1688×1436 pixels)
Bottom-up classification of San-Francisco neighborhoods.
(tags: sanfrancisco)

Central
Map showing detailed boundaries of San Francisco neighbourhoods according to [...]

links for 2006-12-29

29th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

RubyForge: objectiveflickr: Project Info
Minimalistic ruby API to flickr.
(tags: ruby library photo)

links for 2006-12-23

23rd December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Security in Ad-hoc And Sensor Networks: First… – Google Book Search
“Securely Propagating Authentication in an Ensemble of Personal Devices Using Single Sign-On” — a paper I co-wrote a few years ago
(tags: my)

links for 2006-12-22

22nd December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Rails Framework Documentation
(tags: programming reference ruby rubyonrails)

Distributing Rails Applications – A Tutorial
How to wrap up a rails app for deployment using sqlite as the database.
(tags: deployment rubyonrails ruby tutorial)

MySQL AB :: MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference Manual :: 3.4 Getting Information About Databases and Tables
How to get information about the schema in an existing database. [...]

links for 2006-12-20

20th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Main Page – Ajax Patterns
(tags: programming web2.0 javascript design)

links for 2006-12-17

17th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
(tags: music service)

links for 2006-12-16

16th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Online Readability Software
Handy tool for evaluating the readibility of ones writing.
(tags: service)

links for 2006-12-15

15th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

8.4 The Peano Curve and Fractal Curves
Constructing a peano space-filling curve by recursive replacement
(tags: graphics)

Plane Filling Curves
Demonstration of plane-filling curves
(tags: programming graphics)

The Hilbert curve
ALgorithm for generating Hilbert space-filling curve
(tags: graphics)

Binary image compression challenge – KBK’s entry
Use of hilbert curve order in image compression
(tags: graphics)

links for 2006-12-13

13th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

ICCE – 2007 Presentation Schedule
I will be making a presentation at ICCE, standing in for one of the authors.
(tags: conference)

links for 2006-12-12

12th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

FLV Online Converter – vixy.net
A tool to convert web FLV videos to other formats. Could be handy!
(tags: flash video service tool totry)

:: GOM PLAYER ::
Another video player that, like VLC and mplayer. includes its own codecs. Also claims to be able to play broken videos.
(tags: video windows totry)

links for 2006-12-11

11th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Modernising Semantic Web Markup
Thia proposal for RXR, a new simpler XML encoding of RDF is so much nicer than RDF/XML. It would be great if it gained some traction.
In the meantime I feel I need to use n3 or turtle instead of RDF/XML.
(tags: rdf)

links for 2006-12-09

9th December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

TCMalloc : Thread-Caching Malloc
This version of malloc has some impressive performace claims.
(tags: programming library totry)

links for 2006-12-01

1st December 2006 by eamonn No Comments

Smart Google Reader Subscribe Button [persistent.info]
Even better version of the greasemonkey script for subscribing feeds on the current page to Google Reader.
(tags: tool service)