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BlogsTags > databasesFour short links: 8 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2013 How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little … Four short links: 23 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2013 Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive. (via Ed Vielmetti) … Four short links: 29 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 29, 2013 Titan 0.3 Out — graph database now has full-text, geo, and numeric-range index backends. Mozilla Security Community Do a Reddit AMA — if you wanted a list of sharp web security people to follow on Twitter, you could do a … Four short links: 1 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 1, 2013 Drone Journalism — two universities in the US have already incorporated drone use in their journalism programs. The Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska and the Missouri Drone Journalism Program at the University of Missouri both teach journalism … Four short links: 20 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 20, 2012 Use The Index, Luke — free ebook on tuning SQL database access. CamanJS — Instagram-like filters in Javascript, permissively-licensed open source. (via VentureBeat) Don’t Stick That There — USB device pretending to be a keyboard. The benefit of this is … Four short links: 25 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 25, 2012 Big Data: the Big Picture (Vimeo) — Jim Stogdill’s excellent talk: although Big Data is presented as part of the Gartner Hype Cycle, it’s an epoch of the Information Age which will have significant effects on the structure of corporations … A grisly job for data scientistsBy Jon BrunerAugust 13, 2012 Javier Reveron went missing from Ohio in 2004. His wallet turned up in New York City, but he was nowhere to be found. By the time his parents arrived to search for him and hand out fliers, his remains had … Four short links: 26 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 26, 2012 Drones Over Somalia are Hazard to Air Traffic (Washington Post) — In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refugee camp, flew dangerously close to a fuel dump and almost … The key web technologies that work together for dynamic web sites 
By Andy OramJuly 12, 2012 The technologies that led to an explosion of interactive web sites — PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS — are still as popular today, and a non-programmer can master them quickly. Four short links: 15 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 15, 2012 In Flawed, Epic Anonymous Book, the Abyss Gazes Back (Wired) -- Quinn Norton's review of a book about Anonymous is an excellent introduction to Anonymous. Anonymous made us, its mediafags, masters of hedging language. The bombastic claims and hyperbolic declarations must be reported from their mouths, not from our publications. And yet still we make mistakes and publish lies... MySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live
By Andy OramApril 14, 2012 Contrasting deployments at craigslit and Pinterest, trends, commercial offerings, and more The NoSQL movementBy Mike LoukidesFebruary 8, 2012 A relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement and explains how to choose the right database for your application. The NoSQL movement February 8, 2012 A relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement and explains how to choose the right database for your application. Four short links: 8 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 8, 2011 Bulbflow -- a Python framework for graph databases: it's like an ORM for graphs. (via Joshua Schachter) Nomograms -- the lost art of graphical computing. (via John D Cook) Web Intents -- adding Android-style Intents to the web. Services register their intention to be able to handle an action on the user's behalf. Applications request to start an Action... Four short links: 29 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 29, 2011 SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Docs) -- just what it sounds like. (via ModSecurity SQL Injection Challenge: Lessons Learned) isostick: The Optical Drive in a Stick (KickStarter) -- clever! A USB memory stick with drivers that emulate optical drives so you can boot off .iso files you've put on the memory stick. (via Extreme Tech) CrowdDB: Answering Queries with... Strata Week: When does data access become data theft?By Audrey WattersJuly 21, 2011 Aaron Swartz faces felony charges for downloading "big data" (more than 4 million academic journals) from the MIT library, Microsoft's new data tool is aimed at scholars, and David Eaves looks at open data efforts in Canada. Strata Week: When does data access become data theft? July 21, 2011 Aaron Swartz faces felony charges for downloading "big data" (more than 4 million academic journals) from the MIT library, Microsoft's new data tool is aimed at scholars, and David Eaves looks at open data efforts in Canada. Four short links: 21 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 21, 2011 Sugar -- a Javascript library that fixes inconsistencies in built-in classes (Strings, Arrays, etc.) and extends them with much-needed time-saving functionality (e.g., automatic iterators over regular expressions; Date creation from strings; binding scopes to functions). Tilt -- clever Firefox plugin that lets you view the DOM on your page in 3D. Excellent for visually understanding the structure and layout... Four short links: 12 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 12, 2011 Slopegraphs -- a nifty Tufte visualization which conveys rank, value, and delta over time. Includes pointers to how to make them, and guidelines for when and how they work. (via Avi Bryant) Ask Me Anything: A Technical Lead on the Google+ Team -- lots of juicy details about technology and dev process. A couple nifty tricks we do: we... Four short links: 4 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 4, 2011 Let There Be Smite (Pippin Barr) -- simple diversion for the 4th of July. It won't be easy for God to save America. (via Pippin's blog) Basel Wear -- to answer the question I know was burning on your lips: "what *did* the Swiss wear in 1634?" Impressively detailed pictures from a 1634 book that is now online. One... Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year June 7, 2011 JavaScript is everywhere: servers, rich web client libraries, HTML5, databases, even JavaScript-based languages. If you've avoided JavaScript, this is the year to learn it. And if you don't, you risk being left behind. Wrap-up of 2011 MySQL Conference
By Andy OramApril 15, 2011 Two themes: mix your relational database with less formal solutions and move to the cloud. This may actually be the best environment MySQL has ever enjoyed. Brian Aker explains Memcached 
By James TurnerApril 5, 2011 Memcached is one of the linchpin technologies that holds the modern Internet together, but do you know what it actually does? Brian Aker offers a peek under the hood. Improving healthcare in Zambia with CouchDB
By James TurnerMarch 31, 2011 A new project in Zambia is trying to integrate supervisors, clinics, and community healthcare workers into an unified system that can improve patient service and provide more data. In this interview, Cory Zue explains how CouchDB is playing a role. Four short links: 24 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 24, 2011 Digital Subscription Prices -- the NY Times in context. Aie. Trinity -- Microsoft Research graph database. (via Hacker News) Data Science Toolkit -- prepackaged EC2 image of most useful data tools. (via Pete Warden) Snappy -- Google's open sourced compression library, as used in BigTable and MapReduce. Emphasis is on speed, with resulting lack of quality in filesize (20-100%... Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerMarch 23, 2011 What's in a name? For Amazon's new Appstore, it was a lawsuit. For Oracle's sun.com domain, big money. And would MySQL by any other name smell as sweet? Four short links: 18 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 18, 2011 Titles and Promotions (Ben Horowitz) -- Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and titles. Of those, title is by far the cheapest, so it makes sense to give the highest titles possible. The hierarchy should have Presidents, Chiefs, and Senior Executive Vice Presidents. If it makes people... Will data be too cheap to meter? February 8, 2011 The data acquisition process should be increasingly automatic, and so increasingly cheap. I'm hoping for a world where information producers are paid for extracting value from that data. Strata Week: Behind LinkedIn Signal
By Edd DumbillSeptember 30, 2010 In this edition of Strata Week: the open source technology behind LinkedIn Signal; Julia Grace on visualization; Hadoop usage survey results, and the first release of the SciDB project. Mongo Boston: fast progress, with hitches in the cloud, Map/Reduce
By Andy OramSeptember 21, 2010 Microsoft's Azure design interfere with running multiple MongoDB servers. Map/Reduce works, but not as fast as it should. MongoDB continues to grow in features and popularity. Four short links: 1 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 1, 2010 R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by BERG in Schooloscope. (via the tutorial at Flowing Data) Piwik -- GPLed web analytics package. Pomegranate -- a data... Four short links: 31 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 31, 2010 Rules for Revolutionaries -- Carl Malamud's talk to the WWW2010 Conference. Video, slides, and text available. Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter -- a how-I-did-it for a homegrown project to do sentiment analysis on Twitter. LUXR -- the Lean User Experience Residency program. LUXr brings user experience and design services to early stage teams in a lower cost, more... CouchDB and MongoDB announce new products involving replication
By Andy OramAugust 10, 2010 CouchDB announced an Android app that downloads a CouchDB database to the device, while MongoDB adds auto-sharding and replication sets to its product. Four short links: 5 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 5, 2010 Delicious Links Clustered and Stacked (Matt Biddulph) -- six years of his delicious links, k-means clustered by tag and graphed. The clusters are interesting, but I wonder whether Matt can identify significant life/work events by the spikes in the graph. Open Data and the Voluntary Sector (OKFN) -- Open data will give charities new ways to find and share... Four short links: 5 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 5, 2010 The Open Spending Data that Isn't (OKFN) -- the UK government mandated councils release details of expenditure over 500 pounds in size. Councils have been sending data to a proprietary service and claiming this is releasing it. Everyone needs to realise that government must always wholesale its data (offer bulk downloads), even when it doesn't retail that data (offer... MySQL highlighted at Oracle user group conference
By Andy OramJune 16, 2010 A special MySQL track at Kaleidoscope, the upcoming Oracle Developer Tools User Group conference, should give MySQL a nice bounce. MySQL conference 2010: thriving as one of many
By Andy OramApril 15, 2010 The future course of MySQL in an environment with many new and intriguing alternatives to relational databases, and multiple versions of MySQL itself. MySQL conference begins in the midst of industry shifts
By Andy OramApril 13, 2010 The conference comes at a time of unusual uncertainty and change for MySQL--and I'm not talking about the Oracle acquisition, which the community dealt with last year. Brian Aker on post-Oracle MySQL
By James TurnerApril 8, 2010 In time for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo, Brian Aker discussed a number of topics with us, including Oracle's motivations for buying Sun and the rise of NoSQL. MongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB
By Andy OramApril 8, 2010 Because the MySQL conference starts next week and O'Reilly just released a pre-publication version of MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, I decided to spice up discussion a bit by asking the authors about a common question: how to move from MySQL to MongoDB. Four short links: 17 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 17, 2010 Common MySQL Queries -- a useful reference. MySociety's Next 12 Months -- two new projects, FixMyTransport and "Project Fosbury". The latter is a more general tool to help people organise their own campaigns for change. riak -- scalable key-value store with JSON interface. (via joshua on Delicious) Notes from NoSQL Live Boston -- full of juicy nuggets of info... NoSQL: Staying for the feature presentation
By Andy OramMarch 12, 2010 I left the NoSQL Live conference in Boston with the impression that features rather than architecture drive the adoption of NoSQL projects. NoSQL conference coming to Boston
By Andy OramFebruary 24, 2010 On March 11 Boston will host a conference on the movement broadly known as NoSQL. This blog looks at who uses these projects and discusses the role of open source communities. Feedback and analysis: the missing ingredients in local's recipe 
By Mac SlocumFebruary 8, 2010 There's plenty of enthusiasm for local / hyperlocal projects, but the sweepstakes has yet to be won. So many of these local efforts rely on traditional information delivery through news articles or databases. That material has use, no doubt. Yet few projects take the extra step and put that data into context. Wayner security flip gets real-life play in Wesabe's Grendel
By Andy OramJanuary 13, 2010 A security trick documented by Peter Wayner in the books Beautiful Security and Translucent Databases was also discovered and used by Wesabe. Four short links: 4 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 3, 2009 ChipHacker -- collaborative FAQ site for electronics hacking. Based on the same StackExchange software as RedMonk's FOSS FAQ for open source software. Democracy Live -- BBC launch searchable coverage of parliamentary discussion, using speech-to-text. One aspect we're particularly proud of is that we've managed to deliver good results for speech-to-text in Welsh, which, we're told, is unique. I think... Four short links: 18 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 18, 2009 The Making of the NPR News iPhone App -- interesting behind-the-scenes look, with sketches and all. Station streams, however, presented a larger challenge. To begin with, NPR didn't have direct stream links for any of its stations, so we built a Web spider that identified and captured more than 300 iPhone-compatible station streams. After that first pass, we worked... Four short links: 5 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 6, 2009 Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Indus Valley Script -- Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer... Relational databases as reality sandwiches: thoughts about C.J. Date's "SQL and Relational Theory"
By Andy OramJuly 15, 2009 I recently returned to SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code by C.J. Date, a leading researcher in the field of relational databases, as I learned more about some of the alternative forms of data storage that are becoming popular for Web-based or text-heavy repositories. Four short links: 29 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 28, 2009 Freedom for OS X -- Mac app that disables networking for up to eight hours so you can get work done without Internet distractions. Technology workarounds for meatware bugs. (via Joshua-Michèle Ross). iPhone Casts a Giant Shadow on the Web -- 43% of mobile web traffic is from iPhone users, as measured by "the world's largest purveyor of ads... 1 to 50 of 64 Next Stay Connected
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