Founder of OpenHeatMap Pete Warden provides a simple introduction to MapReduce, the Google-created framework for examining large datasets. This video tutorial includes four videos: an intro to the topic, writing your first MapReduce job, and then two videos on …
Read more →A new web service, If This Then That (ifttt), allows you to wire web triggers to web actions. Go check it out. I just wired this blog to Twitter: anytime I blog something (the trigger or “this”), then I’ll automatically tweet about it (the action or “that”). …
Read more →Originally submitted at Fathead Larry Bird NBA Legend. Real.Big. Fathead Wall Graphic Larry Bird \ Greatest Player Ever By hoop33 from Jacksonville, FL on 9/10/2011 5out of 5 Pros: Celtic pride, Crisply detailed Best Uses: Game room Describe Yourself: Die …
Read more →I’m posting this so others can avoid the frustration I felt yesterday trying to use OmniAuth in a Rails 3.1 application. After adding this to my Gemfile: gem "omniauth", :git => "git://github.com/intridea/omniauth.git" and running: bundle install I got this …
Read more →When I got my first Mac in 2004, I found few programming editors. Since then, however, Mac OS X has birthed many programming editors that match or beat options on other computing platforms. I’ve rounded up the ones I’m aware of, categorized into several …
Read more →Last Friday, I saw where you could get $200 off an HP TouchPad, so I decided to jump. I went to the Staples in St. Johns Town Center with my FatWallet coupon and the ZDNet story linked above, and the salesperson treated me like a thief. He disavowed any …
Read more →Rather than catching up on sleep after we finished writing the first edition of Pro Core Data for iOS, Michael Privat and I have been working both on the second edition of that book and on another book: Beginning Mac OS X Lion Apps Development . It’s been a …
Read more →Originally submitted at O’Reilly Any experienced iPhone programmer understands that you can’t build much in the way of complex user interfaces without tables. Every time you throw together a lengthy list view, tables are a concern. More than that, the stock …
Read more →As I type this, Ghostwriter Notes, the notepad app for iPad written by my friend and coauthor Michael Privat, is listed in the New and Noteworthy section of the iPad App Store. With each release, this app continues to impress as it adds new functionality …
Read more →A few weeks ago, my boss sent me an email that said: http://aneventapart.com/2011/atlanta/ Is this something you would want to attend? I clicked the link, saw the speaker panel, leapt through the question’s ambiguity, and signed up before my boss could clarify …
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