Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with programming http://johndalton.info/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron john@johndalton.info Walkthrough: A MongoDB Map/Reduce Job http://johndalton.info/items/view/9413/walkthrough-a-mongodb-mapreduce-job

Walk through a real-world example of a map/reduce job we’re using at Fiesta.

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Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:35:00 -0600 http://johndalton.info/items/view/9413/walkthrough-a-mongodb-mapreduce-job
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo http://johndalton.info/items/view/7841/gentoo-linux-documentation-how-to-get-meaningful-backtraces-in-gentoo ]]> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:58:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/7841/gentoo-linux-documentation-how-to-get-meaningful-backtraces-in-gentoo Sharding techniques http://johndalton.info/items/view/7161/sharding-techniques

Overview of sharding techniques.

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Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:17:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/7161/sharding-techniques
Watir - open source web browser automation. http://johndalton.info/items/view/6765/watir-open-source-web-browser-automation

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers.

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Fri, 20 May 2011 02:21:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6765/watir-open-source-web-browser-automation
<a href="http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt" rel="external">http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt</a> http://johndalton.info/items/view/6576/httpwwwpementorgawkawk1linetxt

A collection of Awk one liners.

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Sun, 08 May 2011 23:14:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6576/httpwwwpementorgawkawk1linetxt
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I - good coders code, great reuse http://johndalton.info/items/view/6577/famous-awk-one-liners-explained-part-i-good-coders-code-great-reuse

An explanation of how the awk one liners in awk1line.txt work, which doubles as a good awk tutorial.

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Sun, 08 May 2011 23:13:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6577/famous-awk-one-liners-explained-part-i-good-coders-code-great-reuse
Git Cheatsheet http://johndalton.info/items/view/6295/git-cheatsheet

Nice visualisation of git workflow, that doubles as a very good cheatsheet.

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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:14:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6295/git-cheatsheet
papert: logo in your browser http://johndalton.info/items/view/6195/papert-logo-in-your-browser

Very cool in-browser implementation of the Logo programming language.

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Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:47:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6195/papert-logo-in-your-browser
Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac http://johndalton.info/items/view/6196/tower-the-most-powerful-git-client-for-mac

A GUI git client for OSX.

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Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:41:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6196/tower-the-most-powerful-git-client-for-mac
guessing publisher from ISBN prefix - OCLC Developer Network Blog http://johndalton.info/items/view/3129/guessing-publisher-from-isbn-prefix-oclc-developer-network-blog

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/7806281622.js?method=hyphen

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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:52:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/3129/guessing-publisher-from-isbn-prefix-oclc-developer-network-blog
ppss - Parallel Processing Shell Script http://johndalton.info/items/view/2773/ppss-parallel-processing-shell-script

PPSS is a Bash shell script that executes commands, scripts or programs in parallel. It is designed to make full use of current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a separate job for each CPU core. It will also use hyper threading by default. PPSS can also be installed on multiple host in a distributed like fashion, creating a simple cluster.

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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:24:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/2773/ppss-parallel-processing-shell-script
Signs that you're a bad programmer ‎(Software Engineering Tips)‎ http://johndalton.info/items/view/1183/signs-that-youre-a-bad-programmer-software-engineering-tips

A good list of common faults, oversights and lazy behaviours in programmers.

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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:34:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/1183/signs-that-youre-a-bad-programmer-software-engineering-tips
These Are Not Bad Names http://johndalton.info/items/view/1146/these-are-not-bad-names

Notes for programmers on edge cases when handling people's names.

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:24:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/1146/these-are-not-bad-names
Computer Science Unplugged http://johndalton.info/items/view/500/computer-science-unplugged

Excellent material for teaching school-age kids about CS concepts without using computers.

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Sun, 17 May 2009 22:56:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/500/computer-science-unplugged
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