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- Separating Data and Implementation for California’s War Dead project
A few months ago, I got a spreadsheet in my email which I quickly turned into a CSV file. The data was pretty straightforward, an id, first name, last name, date and another type of id. I was able to parse thru it, looking up the secondary id and date and coming back [...]
- Adding the environment to Merb’s Rake tasks
I was playing around with Merb some last night but I was running into a problem when I tried to utilize my models in a Rake task. Searching around I finally came across the Merb version of the task foo => :environment, it’s task foo => :merb_env. Now things are going much more [...]
- Linked from Anarchaia
My Friday afternoon tradition is to check out Anarchaia which is one of my favorite tumblelogs. I wait until Friday because invariably there will be many links for blog posts and papers that I want to read and doing so on the weekend is much better for my productivity.
I was pretty amazed to find [...]
- Why Yelp Works
But Mr. Stoppelman said that the site deliberately tilts its rules to support the reviewers. “We put the community first, the consumer second and businesses third,” he said.
Pretty much sums it up… I think The Guide could take some cues from that.
More on Yelp and it still holds true even from 2006.
Hmm, what if [...]
- Celebrity Spotter / Coolspotters
MSN Celebrity UK has a pretty cool mash-up of celebrity events on a map. This could be something fun to do but here in SoCal, you’d have to think of another way of plotting the data since celebrities are a commodity.
Going along with this is Coolspotters, basically a database of celebrities and [...]
- Tracking Manny’s Homers
The Boston Globe has put together an very cool mini-app that tracks all of Manny Ramirez’s home runs as he approaches number 500.
You can break it down in all sorts of data goodness from ballpark to pitch count. Ah data, the things you can do with it.
- Facebook Chat development
One issue when you have existing user base is how to roll out new features with minimal impact on servers and user experience. When Facebook rolled out Facebook Chat they used a pretty good system of figuring out how things can scale.
The secret for going from zero to seventy million users overnight is to [...]
- Links Links Links
New iPhone version of Google Reader
We don’t need more information or aggregation, we need inspiration
SenseArray - a unique new type of recommendation engine (also known as a collaborative filter), software that determines a user’s interests based on behavioral information collected about that user. This can then be used to tailor your website to the individual [...]
- Weekend Chicago ‘RedEye’ Reaches 100,000 Opt-In Subscribe
Interesting… I wonder what it is about RedEye that is causing this.
A year after its launch, the weekend edition of RedEye has more than 100,000 opt-in subscribers, the Chicago Tribune’s quick-read tabloid said Monday.
Mondays through Fridays, about 200,000 copies of the free paper are distributed through newsboxes and stacks in the city of [...]
- Times.app
Chris Messina posted a screenshot of a new OS X news reader, Times.
I’m bummed I haven’t upgraded to Leopard yet because I think I’ll try this once I do.
