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An introduction to Neo4j

Neo4j is a graph database that has been rapidly accumulating success stories, especially in areas such as social applications, recommendation engines, fraud detection, resource authorization, network and data center management, and much more.

Knowledge Engineering · #database #graph

2012

Nov

Infographics Course, Week 1

This is a short summary of the activities in week 1 of the Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization massive online course offered by the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas.

Data Science · #visualization

2011

Jan

Setting up Django Registration

Django's admin framework includes the basic functionalities for logging in and out of the admin site, but if you're building a so-called 'social' application and want people to be able to sign-up, log in and thus benefit from additional site functionalities then you need to use a more generic 'registration' application.

TechLife · #conference #django #python

2010

Nov

Clojure or not clojure?

Clojure is a quite recent programming language that's becoming popular among developers; the big selling point is that it's functional and dynamically typed (such as Lisp or Python), but since it uses Java's Virtual Runtime as its platform it also accommodates the needs of the many developers have been growing up in the Java world.

TechLife · #language #lisp #programming

Feb

Nanoloop

Nanoloop is a mobile music software that provides all functionality you need to create nice electronic music.

Computer Music · #hci #ios

2009

Oct

Yolk : Python packages index

Yolk is a Python tool for obtaining information about packages installed by distutils, setuptools and easy_install and querying packages on PyPI (Python Package Index a.k.a.

TechLife · #python

Oct

Pong screensaver

Among various other useful freebies, Rogue Amoeba software is giving away for free Pong Saver, a nice little screensaver that emulates this classic arcade game...

Just Blogging · #macos

Oct

Autocomplete in Django #2

[Update 14/09/11 : If you're using Django 1.3 you can also skip point -4- below, as the 'cut' filter is included in Django by default now!] [Update 15/2/10 : I added a small example that shows how to make this work with Inlines too, see point 6 below...] [Update 18/10/09 : please note that the code has been tested on django1.1!

TechLife · #django #faceted-search

2008

Feb

FlexBuilder and Flare

Got a headache by trying to use the flash version of Prefuse, which is called Flare, in the Flex2 builder environment (which I found out, you can get for free if you're a student).

TechLife · #d3 #programming

2007

Sep

Lisp blog engine

I've been very happy to help out Cyrus Harmon debugging his Nuclblog package to make it work with lispworks too (he developed it using sbcl)...

TechLife · #blog #lisp

Jun

AquaMacs 1.0

I read from Bill Clementson's blog that AquaMacs Emacs 1.0 (is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor) has made its appearance during the last days - let's see how many new users it will conquer!!!

TechLife · #ide #macos #tool

Mar

Lyx on the mac

I'm probably one of the last ones getting there, but I decided to do my best not to use Microsoft Word for editing my phd thesis.

Just Blogging · #macos

2006

Dec

Fink fhink think

There's a class of applications that conquered a big slice of new mac users, after the appearance of OSX: the applications coming from UNIX.

Just Blogging · #macos

Dec

Hunchentoot day

Quite an intense experience getting everything to work properly with lisp and Hunchentoot (a CM web-server), but I succeeded eventually yahoooo ....

TechLife · #lisp

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