advises for Montreal in August:
Average August temperature: 21°C / 68°F
August average high: 28°C / 83°F
August average low: 16°C / 60°F
Visitors can expect rain about 9 days out of 31 in August.
I mention that because Tommie Usdin advises it is time to:
Register for Balisage: The Markup Conference at:
Reserve your room at the conference hotel: receive the group rate, you MUST either:
call the hotel at 514-866-6492 (or from Canada or the US: 1-888-535-2808)
or
send email to info@hoteleuropa.com with a copy to
and
specify that you are making a reservation for Balisage 2013. [Penalty if you fail to say Balisage 2013] Rates cannot be changed at check-in/check-out times for people who fail to identify their affiliation at the time of reservation.
Start thinking about what you want to talk about in Balisage Bluff:
Decide what you want to donate to the Silent Auction:
Questions? write to
The weather should be nice but being wet at 16°C / 60°F isn’t much fun. Get a room. - Full Post
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Running Python and R inside Emacs
by John D. Cook.
From the post:
Emacs org-mode lets you manage blocks of source code inside a text file. You can execute these blocks and have the output display in your text file. Or you could export the file, say to HTML or PDF, and show the code and/or the results of executing the code.
Here I’ll show some of the most basic possibilities. For much more information, see . And for the use of org-mode in research, see .
Not recent (2012) but looks quite interesting.
Well, you have to already like Emacs!
Follow John’s post for basic usage and if you like it, checkout . - Full Post
From the post:
Emacs org-mode lets you manage blocks of source code inside a text file. You can execute these blocks and have the output display in your text file. Or you could export the file, say to HTML or PDF, and show the code and/or the results of executing the code.
Here I’ll show some of the most basic possibilities. For much more information, see . And for the use of org-mode in research, see .
Not recent (2012) but looks quite interesting.
Well, you have to already like Emacs!
Follow John’s post for basic usage and if you like it, checkout . - Full Post
Triggers for Apache HBase
by Steven Noels.
Great background story on the development of triggers and indexing updates for Apache HBase by NGDATA (for their product) and that underlies Cloudera .
From the post:
In this most recent edition, we introduced an order of magnitude performance improvement: a cleaner, more efficient, and fault-tolerant code path with no write performance penalty on HBase. In the interest of modularity, we decoupled the trigger and indexing component from Lily, making it into that is now underpinning both Cloudera Search HBase support as well as Lily.
This made sense for us, not just because we believe in HBase and its community but because our customers in Banking, Media, Pharma and Telecom have unqualified expectations for both the scalability and resilience of Lily. Outsourcing some part of that responsibility towards the infrastructure tier is efficient for us. We are very pleased with the collaboration, innovation, and quality that Cloudera has produced by working with us and look forward to a continued relationship that combines joint development in a community oriented way with responsible stewardship of the infrastructure code base we build upon.
Our HBase Triggering and Indexing software can be found on GitHub at:
Do you have any indexing or update side-effect needs for HBase? Tell us your thoughts on this solution. - Full Post
Great background story on the development of triggers and indexing updates for Apache HBase by NGDATA (for their product) and that underlies Cloudera .
From the post:
In this most recent edition, we introduced an order of magnitude performance improvement: a cleaner, more efficient, and fault-tolerant code path with no write performance penalty on HBase. In the interest of modularity, we decoupled the trigger and indexing component from Lily, making it into that is now underpinning both Cloudera Search HBase support as well as Lily.
This made sense for us, not just because we believe in HBase and its community but because our customers in Banking, Media, Pharma and Telecom have unqualified expectations for both the scalability and resilience of Lily. Outsourcing some part of that responsibility towards the infrastructure tier is efficient for us. We are very pleased with the collaboration, innovation, and quality that Cloudera has produced by working with us and look forward to a continued relationship that combines joint development in a community oriented way with responsible stewardship of the infrastructure code base we build upon.
Our HBase Triggering and Indexing software can be found on GitHub at:
Do you have any indexing or update side-effect needs for HBase? Tell us your thoughts on this solution. - Full Post
Google+ Tries To Gain Photo Sharing Ground By Making It Easier To Move, Download, And Upload Your Pics
Photo sharing just got a little better on Google+, as the social network has made it easier for users to move, download, and upload their pictures. Google+ engineering manager Jon Emerson wrote today that the new features came from user feedback. Users can more easily move batches of photos between albums, use a new download option to quickly save photos, and upload large sets of photos faster.Source: - Full Post
Need Suggestions for a Galaxy S4 Case
I bought a GS4 over the weekend and would like some suggestions for a case. I'm not someone who is rough on their phones. *knock on wood* I've never severely damaged a phone from dropping it or mishaps. So I would like some suggestions for a case that has a mid grade protection as I don't feel I need something bulky like OB Defender. I've looked into a few and I really like the Spigen Slim Armor, Puregear Dualtek, and Ballistic Aspira. If anyone has any of these cases let me know how you like it. Or what kind of case you are rocking right now.One thing that does factor in for me is if it comes with a a screen protector. I would really like to find one that does as it changes the outlook of the value. I would have gone with the Spigen already but one thing that concerns me is people say it can be quite slippery, which just sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Here are the links to the above cases.http://www.amazon.com/SPIGEN-SGP-Pro... - Full Post
Nokia's Here Maps service comes to the Asha 501, beta release available now for download
The touchscreen Nokia unveiled back in May will now work with , the company announced on its blog today. The navigation service is already available on Windows Phone 8, Firefox OS, Android and iOS, and its arrival on the Asha platform will boost that operating system's more modest selection of apps. Available now as a beta release, Here Maps for the Asha 501 offers turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic information. It's designed specifically for low-end smartphones without GPS on board, and Nokia's post notes that the current version "is a starting point and we will improve the experience over time." Upcoming changes will likely include improved satellite images, which the company says will soon be updated to a higher quality. Asha 501 users in select countries can nab the Here Maps beta via the source link below. Filed under: , , , Source: , Source: - Full Post
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