alex lines › Comments

"the entire playlist was for her but yes, I haven't broken out any classical music in a long time and she prompted that - rostropovich playing bach's cello suites, highly recommended. I should post some ... or anything for that matter" - alex lines

aims to be an open-source alternative to google analytics - alex lines

not as complete as the data feed but not bad - alex lines

characterize yr code - cyclomatic complexity, etc - alex lines

too funny. great title. - alex lines

"MckoiDDB is a database system used by software developers to create applications that store data over a cluster of machines in a network. It is designed to be used in online environments where there are very large sets of both small and big data items that need to be stored, accessed and indexed efficiently in a network cluster. The focus of the MckoiDDB architecture is to support low latency query performance, provide strong data consistency through snapshot transaction isolation, and provide tools to manage logical data models that may change dramatically in physical network environments that may experience similar dramatic change." - alex lines

remote, in-place upgrades. - alex lines

__EVENTTARGET etc - alex lines

interesting targeted attack, finding a backup process and inserting cgi scripts into the backup queue which were then distributed (via rsync) into public execution paths on various servers, yielding effective shell access via browser - alex lines

"primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error" - alex lines

barcode based on out-of-focus low-res photos - alex lines

ridiculous - alex lines

using adwords to test potential character names for a book - alex lines

more links from simon, "Use Python’s socket log handler to send all log messages to a single server—the python-loggingserver project implements such a server as a Twisted application with a handy web interface for viewing the aggregated logs." - alex lines

simon sez, "From the prolific Jeff Lindsay, a pastebin-style tool for short server-side scripts written in Python, JavaScript or PHP that executes them within a Google App Engine powered sandbox. The Java code that implements the service is available on GitHub." - alex lines

side-scrolling one-button game - alex lines

good list of failure scenarios - alex lines

select random passphrase using physical dice - alex lines

some example code for calculating passphrase entropy - alex lines

"it totally is ;)" - alex lines

"Determining exactly how big to make the filter and how many hashes to use to achieve a given false positive rate is a solved problem" - alex lines

meant to improve and replace easy_install, complementary to virtualenv - alex lines

create isolated python environments - to support installing multiple versions of a dependency, don't have permission to install system-wide, etc - alex lines

rolling yr own bloom filter? don't. but "you should probably port Cassandra's test suite to your language of choice. In particular, nobody else bothers to check that false positive rates are within what is predicted by the math, but if you don't, it's easy for bugs that pass simple tests to slip by, like the one in Cassandra's older implementation, or the one I found in Hadoop's." - alex lines

work clothes, including coveralls, flame-resistant clothes, etc. also lab coats. - alex lines

Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol - alex lines

"trick for expensive pages which can be mostly cached with the exception of the “logged in as” bit—run them through the template system twice, caching the intermediary generated template" and/or varnish+esi - alex lines

preventing jsonp-related memory leaks - alex lines

"Yahoo Iain Lamb compared XHR GET and XHR POST, his rather baffling finding: POST requests, made via the XMLHTTP object, send header and body data in separate tcp/ip packets [and therefore,] xmlhttp GET performs better when sending small amounts of data than an xmlhttp POST. If the amount of data you have to send to the server is small (less than 2k), I suggest you design your webservice / client application to use GET rather than POST (and that you try to keep the amount of YAHOO cookies sent on the small side, so that the request can go out in one packet).” - alex lines

good idea, as long as the data store is something other than mongodb - alex lines