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Dataset is a JavaScript client-side data transformation and management library. Dataset makes managing client-side data easy by handling loading, parsing, sorting, querying & manipulating data from all sorts of sources. - Aaron Terry

DOS Batch - FTP Scripts File Transfer with FTP, One-File Solutions. - Aaron Terry

Create View Templates to lay out your content. These are just like WordPress page templates except you create them from the WordPress Dashboard. Insert shortcodes to decide which content you want to display and then add CSS and HTML to display it how you want to. - Aaron Terry

Telestream Episode® 6 is an all-in-one, multiformat encoding application designed for post production and new media workflows. It's the only cross-platform, multiformat software encoder on the market that scales from a desktop to a workgroup cluster. Episode accepts and transcodes more video and audio file formats than any other encoder in its class. - Aaron Terry

A suite of Javascript libraries & tools for building rich, interactive experiences with HTML5. - Aaron Terry

jQuery File Download is a cross server platform compatible jQuery plugin that allows for an Ajax-like file download experience that isn’t normally possible using the web. - Aaron Terry

Designed to scale with your business and your data, the expressor Data Integration Platform is a fast, reliable, easy-to-use system for accessing, transforming, and integrating data from virtually any business system, in any format, and delivering your data to wherever you need it. Organizations use the platform to develop, test, and deploy mission-critical data integration applications. At the core of the platform is expressor Studio, a powerful, easy-to-use ETL design tool that seamlessly integrates with the high-performance platform engine and repository to enable team development, version management, remote execution, and scheduling. - Aaron Terry

SQLstream aggregates and analyzes data from hundreds of sources to provide a single stream of real-time intelligence for powering your business and applications. - Aaron Terry

Style Tiles are a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web. They help form a common visual language between the designers and the stakeholders and provide a catalyst for discussions around the preferences and goals of the client. - Aaron Terry

Must-use plugins (a.k.a. mu-plugins) are plugins installed in a special directory inside the content folder and which are automatically enabled on all sites in the installation. Must-use plugins do not show in the Plugins page of wp-admin and cannot be disabled except by removing the plugin file from the must-use directory, which is found in wp-content/mu-plugins by default. To change the default directory manually, define WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR and WPMU_PLUGIN_URL in wp-config.php. - Aaron Terry

Custom Metaboxes and Fields (CMB for short) will create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind. - Aaron Terry

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing. More libraries continue to be added over time. Julia programs are organized around defining functions, and overloading them for different combinations of argument types (which can also be user-defined). For a more in-depth discussion of the rationale and advantages of Julia over other systems, see the following highlights or read the introduction in the online manual. - Aaron Terry

Attunity provides real-time data integration software that enables access, sharing and distribution of data across heterogeneous enterprise platforms, organizations, and the cloud. An independent leader in change-data-capture (CDC) and data replication technologies, Attunity’s software has been deployed at thousands of organizations worldwide and is the choice of partners including Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and HP. - Aaron Terry

n the last ten years, the R statistics language has exploded in popularity and functionality – emerging as the data scientist’s tool of choice. Today, R is used by over 2 million analysts worldwide, many having been introduced to its elegance and power in academia. These academics have embraced R to solve their most challenging problems in fields ranging from computational biology to quantitative finance, and to train their students in these same fields. The result has been an explosion of R analysts and applications, leading to enthusiastic adoption by premier analytics-driven companies like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Now you too can unleash the power of R in your workplace with the support, scalability and productivity enhancements included in Revolution R Enterprise. - Aaron Terry

What is ANTLR? ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages. ANTLR provides excellent support for tree construction, tree walking, translation, error recovery, and error reporting. There are currently about 5,000 ANTLR source downloads a month. - Aaron Terry

jPlayer is the completely free and open source (GPL/MIT) media library written in JavaScript. A jQuery plugin, jPlayer allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages. jPlayer's comprehensive API allows you to create innovative media solutions while support and encouragement is provided by jPlayer's active and growing community. - Aaron Terry

With ManageWP, logging into each of your WordPress sites individually is a thing of the past. With our unique one-click login technology, you can quickly access all of your dashboards from one central location. - Aaron Terry

I’ve been creating web sites for 17 years now, and I’ve got much more successful at it over that time. And I’ve come into contact with lots of very clever and complex software development processes, many of which don’t produce very good results. This is the typical process I use today on most of the sites I do (of all sizes). It focuses on getting clear on what you’re doing before you start, and staying clear while you work swiftly towards a good solution. - Aaron Terry

Do you hate coding and simply want a graphical user interface to create custom post types? Or would you rather use a plugin to save time to create custom post types? While I personally believe hand coding the custom post types and the metaboxes are easier, there are some really good plugins that will help you accomplish all that you want to accomplish with Custom Post Types. - Aaron Terry

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well. The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on a single or more worker servers using multiprocessing, Eventlet, or gevent. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready). - Aaron Terry

We always get new requests from our users to add yet another type of query in our applications, so last week I decided to spend some time and create an jquery plugin to do sql queries. This is the outcome; a plugin that lets you select columns,conditions and sort orders just by clicking.It provides an ability to describe queries in sort of natural language instead of SQL statements. - Aaron Terry

Faced with a virgin install of Lion, I wondered how my usual bevy of tools would fare under the new operating system. After some minor changes to my bootstrap process, I had a rockin' Python / Django development system up and running in no time. - Aaron Terry

What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps - Aaron Terry

Providing a consistent, single version of the truth across all sources of information in an analytics-ready format is one of the biggest challenges faced by I.T. organizations today. With powerful data extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities, an intuitive and rich graphical design environment, and an open and standards-based architecture, Pentaho Data Integration is increasingly the choice over proprietary and homegrown data integration tools. - Aaron Terry

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration dramatically improves the efficiency of data integration job design through an easy-to-use graphical development environment. It enables rapid deployment and reduces maintenance costs with prebuilt connectors to all source and target systems, with support for all types of data integration, data migration and data synchronization operations. High quality support is available through a worldwide community of users who provide continual testing and feedback. - Aaron Terry

Informatica Data Subset is flexible, scalable software for creating data subsets. It enables your IT team to create, update, and secure data subsets—smaller, targeted databases—from large, complex databases. With referentially intact subsets of production data, your IT organization dramatically reduces the amount of time, effort, and disk space needed to support nonproduction systems. - Aaron Terry

expressor’s application solutions fully leverage expressor’s unique approach to data integration by enabling you to define your data as intelligent and reusable business data objects that make sense for your organization. You can easily define data types, data mappings, field validation rules, and error handling actions that are consistent with your organization’s terminology and business rules. The rules and actions are automatically enforced even when data sources and targets are changed. This unique approach, coupled with an intuitive, graphical, drag-and-drop development environment dramatically simplifies the process of creating and maintaining your data integration applications. - Aaron Terry

The Rocket Stove is a variety of wood-burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated chimney. The stoves are typically constructed out of trash: tin cans, old stovepipes, etc. A skirt around the pot will help hold heat in, increasing the efficiency. - Aaron Terry

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.” I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you. - Aaron Terry

However, as I have intimated, mirroring between Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files (“CF”) is now much easier, and very cheap.  Read on for the gory details. - Aaron Terry